If this had been a Jewish doctor claiming he had a problem with a patient named Arafat, human rights groups would be screaming about discrimination and...

Health officials paused a vaccination program in the English city of Coventry today after a 14-year-old girl died a few hours after being vaccinated against the virus...

The Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad’s lollipop of giving double salary and other perks to the doctors who are willing to work in rural, hilly, tribal and other...

It is a pity that even after so much of activity, information and the fact that AIDS cannot spread by touch and other common interactions... the society as a whole...

More than 40 doctors from the government hospital in the eastern city of Gardez, the capital of Paktika province, have tendered their resignations from their...

Each AIIMS doctor costs Rs 1.7cr It takes Rs 1.7 crore to produce a single MBBS doctor at AIIMS. This is the finding of a first-of-its- kind study submitted by...

Patients in remote villages used to pay doctors and medical services with vegetables and farm animals. The practice still flourishes in this agricultural town. But this...

What part of “circumcision” was unclear? That’s basically what a Kentucky man and his wife are asking of two doctors who cut off the man’s penis...

Nasreen Khan is a devout Muslim and fasts all through the holy month of Ramzan. She’s also diabetic and the month-long fast would be devastating for her sugar...

A doctor who said he could not help having affairs with his patients was struck off the medical register at his own request yesterday morning.

The Bush administration on Thursday proposed stronger job protections for doctors and other health care workers who refuse to participate in abortions because of...

Nearly 2900 doctors working in government hospitals in Orissa have threatened to tender mass resignation on August 27 over the delay in implementation of measures...

California’s highest court on Monday barred doctors from invoking their religious beliefs as a reason to deny treatment to gays and lesbians, ruling that state...

DON’T try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the...

Hi, Im Seth, Im a med student and yes, I do smoke, infact a lot of our future doctors smoke. We like to blame it on the stress we get when its down to crunch time in...

Australian medical authorities are warning employees against using an online company that is planning to sell fake doctors’ sick notes that would allow people to...

Australian doctors have raised concerns about clinics offering vaginal cosmetic surgery, warning the trend towards so-called

Effective Saturday, a new South Dakota state law requires doctors to notify women seeking an abortion that they are ending a human life.

The medical community here has termed as an inhumane act the targeting of hospitals in Saturdays serial blasts in Ahmedabad, and has condemned the attacks.

Doctors in a coastal town in northwestern Peru have rescued the innards of a 38-year-old man by removing 17 metal objects — among them nails, a watch clasp and a...