Tribune (Excerpts): A viral video shot inside Kashmir valley's main tertiary care hospital showed a patient with his abdomen slit open and attendants pleading for help and alleging doctors of negligence. An inquiry was ordered immediately.
The complete picture of the video, however, reveals it was the ignorance of the attendants and not the negligence of the doctors.
The patient, suffered from wound dehiscence and also peritoneal carcinomatosis,...read more
14th Signal Review Panel Meeting of Pharmacovigilance Programme of India (PvPI) held on 28th February
Dr KK Aggarwal, Recipient of Padma Shri
Amikacin-associated blurred vision: Signal Review Panel suggested PvPI to continue the close monitoring for amikacin associated blurred vision.
Ofloxacin-associated mouth ulcer: Signal Review Panel suggested PvPI to continue the close monitoring for ofloxacin associated mouth ulcer.
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Tribune (Excerpts) : A viral video shot inside Kashmir valley's main tertiary care hospital showed a patient with his abdomen slit open and attendants pleading for help and alleging doctors of negligence. An inquiry was ordered immediately....read more
Nagpur: MBBS students in government medical colleges (GMCs) will be eligible for admissions to post graduate (MD/MS) courses without completing the one-year bond service, at least for the next three years starting 2019-20.... read more
Progression-free survival was significantly longer with avelumab plus axitinib than with sunitinib among patients who received these agents as first-line treatment for advanced renal-cell carcinoma in a trial... read more
A study in the April 2019 issue of Pediatrics shows that there has been a significant increase in psychiatric emergency department visits for children and young adults. Overall psychiatric visits were found.... read more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved another device therapy for patients with chronic moderate to severe heart failure, the Optimizer Smart System (Impulse Dynamics). The specified indication is for improving 6-minute walk distance,... read more
The use of combined detection of cell free DNA (cfDNA) alterations and protein markers is a feasible approach to identify early stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in high-risk patients with asymptomatic hepatitis.... read more
Type 2 diabetes may increase the risk of acquiring heart disease Diabetes is a massive economic and health burden
New Delhi, 24 March 2019: People with diabetes are at a higher risk of death from heart diseases. Almost 58% of deaths among people with type 2 diabetes are due to cardiovascular events. High glucose levels associated with diabetes damage blood vessels, resulting in problems with blood pressure and vision, joint pain and other maladies. India currently shoulders 49% of the global diabetes burden, representing the 'lifestyle disease' as a massive public health obstacle for the second most populated country in the world.
Type 2 diabetes normally affects older adults but is being increasingly noticed among younger Indians.
