The police dropped charges against the Kerala health minister P K Sreemathi and Sheela Shenoy, a gynaecologist on May 23, 2007. A case of culpable homicide was registered against them and others

That health care facilities available to the poor are insufficient is common knowledge. According to a recent report of the Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India (assocham), 1,083

To identify the presence and degree of bacterial contamination on stethoscopes used by physicians and physician assistants in an outpatient setting, the researchers swabbed and cultured 60 stethoscopes. They defined the degree of contamination as follows: minimal contamination, 1-2 isolates; moderate contamination, 3 isolates; and severe contamination.

After the liberalisation of the Indian economy, private health care units (hcus) have mushroomed across the country. Regulating them figures nowhere on the agenda of the Union government. The

Medical Malpractice

The Name of the Disease

Flying doctors save lives in remote areas of East Africa

Medical education is in the news for all the wrong reasons. The government s decision to extend reservations in institutions of higher education under the Centre triggered off a storm of protest, led by medical students. There were spurious arguments on b

Assam faces a spate of malaria

The work in the B R Hills of Karnataka by H Sudarshan, a medical doctor, on the primary healthcare of the Soliga tribes is a rare example of the role of equity, social justice, maximum community participation and empowerment of the people, in addition to the encouragement of indigenous and traditional systems of medicine, in a successful community health programme.

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