A hospital is supposed to be a place of trust. A space where families lean on doctors when fear and uncertainty take over. But in Bhopal, that trust was brutally exploited. What seemed like a routine medical process turned into a chilling scam, as a man posing as a doctor preyed on desperate families—using inside…
Prostate cancer is a type of cancer that starts in the prostate gland, that helps make semen. Most men don’t notice anything at first because early prostate cancer often doesn’t cause obvious symptoms. It quietly grows, sometimes for years, before it becomes big enough to bother you. And that’s part of the reason it can…
File photo: Dr Nisha Verma Dr Nisha Verma has drawn national attention after a tense exchange during a recent US Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing on abortion pill safety. During the hearing, Republican Senator Josh Hawley repeatedly questioned Verma on whether men can get pregnant, a line of questioning that quickly…
CHANDRAPUR: A pan-India kidney trafficking syndicate with alleged links to Cambodia and China has been uncovered in eastern Maharashtra, exposing an illicit market where transplants fetched up to Rs 80 lakh while impoverished donors were allegedly paid as little as Rs 5 lakh, police said Wednesday. Police have named two specialists – Dr Ravinder Pal…
A handshake and an embrace on Tuesday marked an end to the Dec 22 assault case at Shimla’s Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) involving sacked senior resident Dr Raghav Narula and patient Arjun Panwar. Narula and Panwar, in the office of CM’s principal media adviser Naresh Chauhan, apologised to each other and to the people…
HYDERABAD: By torchlight in deep forest camps, a shadow surgeon once cut close to a beating Maoist heart, fingers steady as a bullet lay lodged centimetres away. For years, the man they called Dr Rafiq worked unseen. Little about him surfaced beyond intelligence files.Now, through surrendered Maoists and security officials, a detailed portrait is emerging…
NEW DELHI: A woman doctor at the centre of the recent hijab row after Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar lifted her naqab during an event did not join duty on Saturday, officials confirmed to news agency PTI. They also reported no contact with her or the family members.Patna civil surgeon Avinash Kumar Singh confirmed that…
Shehzad Poonawalla (ANI image) NEW DELHI: BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the Congress after its MP Imran Masood referred to suicide bomber Umar Un Nabi as a “misguided youth”.Accusing the Opposition party of prioritising “vote bank niti over rashtra niti”, he said the Congress had repeatedly attempted to soften…
NEW DELHI: Nisar Ul Hassan, a doctor who was sacked by J&K LG Manoj Sinha in Nov 2023 from Srinagar’s SHMS hospital over terror links, was hired by Al-Falah School of Medical Science and Research Centre, Faridabad, soon after and has emerged as a key suspect in the case relating to the JeM module behind…
SRINAGAR: J&K police intensified their sweeping operation to dismantle terrorist support networks and the banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), searching over 200 locations in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district and questioning more than 500 people, including a doctor, as the crackdown entered its fifth day Tuesday.The campaign across Kashmir valley has gathered pace after the unearthing of a…