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..

Using GPS navigation to get to your destination may 'switch off' parts of the brain that would otherwise be used to simulate different routes, a study has found.The study by researchers at University College London(UCL) in the UK involved 24 volunteers navigating a simulation in central London while undergoing brain scans. They investigated activity in the hippocampus, a brain region involved in m..

Women who have taken the oral contraceptive pill are protected from some types of cancer for as long as thirty years, says a new study. The results of the longest-running study in the world for the effects of the contraceptive pill showed that having ever used the pill, women are less likely to have colorectal cancer, endometrial cancer or ovarian cancer than women who had never used the pill. The..