Childbirth On Road Drew Public Attention In West Bengal
...Sunday evening in the hospital and was in pain but allegedly not attended upon by either doctor or nurse. The doctor, Debasish Debangshi, asked the heavily pregnant woman to get a scan report from his private clinic. After Basanti left the hospital for the private clinic Monday morning, she underwent labour ...Doctor Caught Red-Handed For Conducting Sex-Determination Test
...r by state health officials. A bribe of Rs.2,350 allegedly paid for the test was recovered from her. Sex determination tests are banned in India under the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PNDT) Act. The ultrasound machine of the private clinic owned by Bhargawa was sealed by health officials led by Harya...GlaxoSmithKline Agrees To Settle Paxil Claims For $14 million
...its star anti-depressant drug Paxil.// GSK was allegedly involved in a shady enterprise to keep the generic producers of Paxil in a bind of using frivolous patent-infringement lawsuits, thus managing to keep the cost of the drug in the high range. However, even after reaching the agreement, GSK denied the ...Rajasthan Plans To Run Christian Institutions
...n charges of distributing the book Haqeeqat, which allegedly insulted Hindu deities and gods. The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by Rajasthan's Social Welfare Minister Madan Dilawar after several of the establishments run by Emmanuel Society complained about lack of basic facilities like water and e...Spurious Liquor Claims 13 Lives In Orissa
Spurious liquor has allegedly killed at least 13 people in Orissa's Ganjam district over the past three days and left more than 15 others ill, a health official said Monday.// The deaths and illnesses were reported from the five hamlets of Badahuma, Khajuria Pali, Sana Ramachand...Ramdev Signs MOU With Jharkhand Govt To Set Up Ayurveda Hospital
...g several laws by selling ayurvedic medicines that allegedly contained human bones and body parts. The two projects in Jharkhand will be implemented by Ramdev's Peetanjali Yoga Peeth. He said the hospital's foundation stone will be laid Feb 25. The Haridawar-based Peetanjali Yoga Peeth was represented at t...Devil in The Dock: Fraud Doctor Swindles Immigrants with Fake tests gets freaked out!
... "Instead of helping these people, this defendant allegedly manipulated them for his own personal profit," San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris said in a statement. Turner continued to practice till last year despite surrendering the California medical license in 1998. Past Patients are being advise...Man Arrested For Sending Hundreds Of Anthrax Hoax Letters
...t George W Bush. He was arrested two days after he allegedly threatened to use a weapon of mass destruction.// The FBI said that the letters were mailed to government agencies, media offices, actors and actresses and businesses....Punjab Government Told To Explain Illegal Kidney Transplantations
...HRC) has called for a report with regard to people allegedly being coerced to sell their kidneys and has issued the Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police of the Indian State of Punjab with a notice. // As many as 300 laborers in the state are reported to have lost their kidneys since the year 200...Girl Comes Out Of Irreversible Coma
...mproving after four months in a coma. The coma was allegedly caused by the beating// she had received from her...d the girl, were charged with criminal assault for allegedly beating the child with a baseball bat. Holly Strickland and her grandmother were found shot dead ...Asian Doctors Caught Issuing False Sick Notes
...GMC's Fitness to Practice Panel was told. Anand allegedly told reporter Rachel Dobson he would note in his r...ring from "any rubbish, it doesn't matter". Saluja allegedly promised the reporter he would give her a sick note if she said she was suffering from "stress or de...Georgia: Indian doctor's license cancelled
...uspended by the Medical Board of Georgia state for allegedly using insecticides to treat cancer patients // and prescribing unauthorised drugs. The nine-member board took the unanimous decision at a meeting on Thursday. The board's action came after a federal grand jury had accused Totada R Shanthaveerappa...Ants nibble diabetic away to death at Kolkata Hospital
...probe the incident. The hospital authorities had allegedly asked the family of the 55-year-old woman to move her out. The death of the woman has triggered tension in the hospital premises. -(IANS)...Jumping The Queue Has Left Hospital Suspending Transplantation
...hat, following the transplant, some hospital staff allegedly falsified records of the operation on numerous occasions, ostensibly to shield the process from scrutiny or discovery. The Saudi national, who was not identified, was No. 52 on the regional waiting list, which covered much of southern California. T...Researchers at Cornell University as been reported using research fund by false claims
...University in New York are under investigation for allegedly enrolling inappropriate participants in research studies and filing false information on protocols with the US National Institutes // of Health (NIH) to maintain government funding for a university research center. Former researcher at the pediatri...The Kidney Transplantation conspiracy in South Africa
...into mainly Israeli clients.//The medical men were allegedly part of a team that performed more than 110 transplants at the St Augustine Hospital, which, according to the prosecutors were illegal.The charges were framed after local police uncovered a syndicate that recruited donors from Brazil who were paid a ......anti-polio campaign in Africa. These vaccines were allegedly cultured in chimpanzee kidney cells. These chimp cells, some say, may have been contaminated with the virus that became HIV-1, the strain responsible for most of the world's HIV infections. The Wistar Institute has always denied that any chimp cells ...