Chinese authorities are investigating an incident where a surgeon is alleged to have punched a patient during an operation, as shown in a viral video without a specified date. The hospital’s parent company, Aier China, has suspended the surgeon, and the hospital’s CEO, where the 2019 incident occurred, has been dismissed. The video appears to […]
Amid the rising pressure to make the details of the assets and liabilities of the NMC Chairman and members public, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has expressed its ‘reservations’ in this regard. Writing to the Under Secretary of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), the Commission has mentioned about the reservations for […]
New Delhi: Noting an unmet medical need in the country, the Subject Expert Committee (SEC) functional under the Central Drug Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has approved AstraZeneca’s Trastuzumab deruxtecan concentrate solution for infusion 100mg (Enhertu 100mg) for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable or metastatic HER2-Low (IHC 1+ or IHC 2+/ISH-) breast cancer who […]
Panchkula: Holding a private hospital and its attending surgeon guilty of medical negligence during a laparoscopic surgery that resulted in the death of a patient, the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (DCDRC) recently directed them to pay Rs 5 lakh compensation to his wife. The consumer court issued the order after relying on the expert committee […]
Treating a pregnant patient with chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) can be quite challenging. According to recent findings, most CSU treatments for pregnant patients involved the use of second-generation H1-antihistamines (sgAHs), while information on the safety of Omalizumab is limited. A study found Omalizumab to be a safe treatment option for pregnant women with a history […]
A recent study discovered that a lower dose of Olanzapine (OLZ) is just as effective as the standard dose for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV), while it also significantly reduced daytime somnolence in cancer patients, The outcomes were presented in San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2023. CINV poses a significant burden on cancer patients undergoing […]
China: A study published in Arthritis Care & Research by a team led by Houyu Zhao, PhD from the School of Public Health, Peking University, concluded that T2DM patients who use thiazolidinediones have a lower risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis. Thiazolidinediones (TZDs) have demonstrated a potential protective effect against rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in preclinical studies. […]
After a surge in the cases of the new COVID subvariant JN.1, doctors from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) have advised people to not panic but rather remain alert and vigilant. “People are getting infected by the new sub-variant of COVID-JN.1 in many states of the country. The symptoms of the patients […]
Kanpur: In a shocking incident, a doctor of the Forensic Science Department at GSVM Medical College in Kanpur was subjected to an alleged brutal attack by a group of miscreants after his car collided with the miscreant’s vehicle near the Swaroop Nagar area of the city. The doctor sustained severe injuries to his head and […]
New Delhi: After MBBS and BDS, the National Exit Test (NExT) has also been mandatory for AYUSH courses. This has been confirmed in the newly introduced National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (National Examinations for Indian System of Medicine) Regulations, 2023, which were published in the Gazette notification dated 20.12.2023. The AYUSH NExT will be […]