The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Monday informed the Supreme Court on Monday of its inability to "amicably" resolve the "stray vacancies" issue in connection with postgraduate medical courses in private medical colleges across the country. Nearly 450 seats are yet to be filled.


No amicable solution to vacant medical PG seats issue, SC told


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A resident doctor of the AIIMS Trauma Centre working at the emergency ward was allegedly manhandled by attendants of a patient, resulting in his colleagues going on a strike till Tuesday.


AIIMS resident doctor manhandled, 2 detained


Adding to the raging controversy over formalin-laced fish being sold in Goa, Nationalist Congress Party MLA and former Chief Minister Churchill Alemao on Monday urged Goans to boycott eating fish during the monsoon months, claiming the fish imported into the state from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh were laced with formalin.


Goans should stop eating fish, it's formalin-laced: Ex-CM


A woman doctor was allegedly assaulted in Himachal Pradesh and doctors here and other parts of the state, protesting the attack on medicos in Kolkata by wearing black badges on duty on Monday, threatened to go on strike if action was not taken against the guilty.


Woman doctor assaulted in Himachal, colleagues threaten stir


The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking deployment of security in government hospitals in view of frequent assaults faced by doctors.


SC agrees to hear PIL on doctors' security at government hospitals


Severe heatwave left at least 45 people dead and more than 100 hospitalised in the past 24 hours in Bihar, officials said on Sunday. Deaths due to the heatwave were reported from Aurangabad, Gaya and Nawada districts.


Heatwave kills 45 in Bihar in 24 hours


The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has certified the Biocon drug product and substance facilities in the city's southern suburb for good manufacturing practice.


Biocon facilities receive European regulatory nod


The Central government earned Rs 15.50 crore in 2018-19 through counselling for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for admissions in medical colleges in the country, according to information received under the RTI.


Government made Rs 15.50 cr from NEET counselling in 2018-19


West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is like a "guardian", a "mother", said renowned actor-filmmaker Aparna Sen as she appealed to the Trinamool chief to "change her stance a bit" and take a more humane view of the threats faced by doctors.


Aparna Sen appeals to 'Ma' Mamata as doctors strike worsens


Reprimanding the striking state hospital doctors, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday gave them a four-hour ultimatum to withdraw their strike and warned of "strong action' if they do not resume work within the deadline.


Mamata gives 4-hour ultimatum to doctors to resume work


The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has blamed quack doctors practicing without training and professional certification for an alarming rise in the number of HIV positive patients in the country, the media reported on Wednesday.


Pakistani doctors blame quacks for alarming rise in HIV cases


Amid protests by doctors in several districts of West Bengal, four junior doctors were injured when stones were pelted at Burdwan Medical College and Hospital on Wednesday, an official said.


4 injured as stones pelted at doctors in Bengal hospital


Protesting against an attack on junior doctors at the NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, the Doctors' Forum on Tuesday proposed to cease work at the outpatient departments (OPDs) of all state-run hospitals in West Bengal on Wednesday, a member of the Forum said. The emergency services, however, will remain active at all hospitals, he said.


Junior doctors threaten strike in Bengal on Wednesday


Over a dozen leading private surgeons, including top urologists of Delhi are under the scanner of Uttar Pradesh Police in connection with a sensational international kidney transplant racket, spreading across Turkey and the Middle East countries.


Top Delhi surgeons under police scanner in international kidney racket (IANS Special)


UAE-based Malayalis have expressed concern for their loved ones back home, as a Kerala youth tested positive for the Nipah virus, leading to a number of traders and travellers taking precautionary measures, the media reported.


Expats in UAE worried as Nipah virus detected in Kerala


Groundwater sources were likely to be contaminated by 12.7 times in the villages that have not become open defecation free (ODF) as compared to those free from open defecation, reveals a study by UNICEF.


'Groundwater more contaminated in non-ODF villages'


Boys outshone girls in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) results announced on Wednesday, bagging the top six slots.


NEET 2019: Rajasthan boy on top, boys take first six slots


A woman was administered chemotherapy in a hospital here despite not having cancer. The Kerala State Human Rights Commission on Monday registered a case for suspected medical negligence.


Woman in Kerala given chemotherapy after wrong diagnosis


The Nirali Memorial Medical Trust (NMMT) would set up at Navsari in Gujarat a multi-specialty hospital, to be managed by the Apollo Hospitals Group, said a NMMT official here on Saturday.


NMMT to set up multi-speciality hospital in Gujarat


Leading British-Swedish drug maker AstraZeneca on Thursday opened a development operations centre in this tech hub to support clinical research in India.


AstraZeneca opens new development centre in Bengaluru


Johnson & Johnson (J&J) on Thursday told the Delhi High Court that it will pay Rs 25 lakh compensation each to 67 identified patients affected by the company's faulty articular surface replacement (ASR) hip implants.