PARLIAMENT passed the HIV and AIDS (Prevention and Control) Bill, which provides for the prevention and control of the disease and protection of human rights of those affected by it with the Lok Sabha's nod to the legislation."It will empower the people affected with the disease by giving them legal sanctity," Health Minister J. P. Nadda said in his reply to the debate in the lower house before t..

Low urine ammonium excretion identifies individuals at high risk of chronic kidney disease progression. Patients with chronic kidney disease who have low levels of ammonium in their urine may be at high risk of the disease progression or death, researchers have warned. Most chronic kidney disease patients in India are obese. A study by US researchers showed that patients with the lowest levels of ..

The Supreme Court has absolved a lady Surgeon doctor from Maharashtra of the charge of medical negligence after 20 years of an incident in which a road accident victim succumbed to injuries at a hospital. The apex court relied on its earlier verdict to say that in cases where negligence is alleged against professionals like doctors the court should be careful before instituting criminal proceeding..

AYURVEDIC MEDICINES are sold by advertisement in TV, Print & Social Media as most safe herbal medicines without any side effects .Such False and Illegal claim recently made a retired IAS officer and secretary, revenue appeals, G J Champaneri crtically ill in ICU diagnosed as Lead Toxicity due to taking of Ayurvedic anti diabetic medicines. Retired NIOH clinical toxicologist Dr Aruna Dewan ..

Stomach acid drugs, known as PPIs (proton pump inhibitors), are linked to a higher risk of diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile, a type of bacterium. Patients on PPIs who develop persistent diarrhea should be tested for CDAD (Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea), says the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).If you are taking PPIs, and have diarrhea that does not go away, you should see..