Father suspects foul play in baby boy’s death
Alleging that his son was murdered by wife and her relatives, a man lodged a complaint with the police on Monday. According...
View ArticleHealth in Indian slums: inside Mumbai’s busiest public hospital
One pioneering doctor has worked for 25 years to improve healthcare in Mumbai’s Dharavi slum, starting with throwing out dirty incubators...
View ArticleAssam professor dies allegedly due to medical negligence in Delhi
New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) Police complaints have been filed against two private hospitals in Delhi after a 36-year-old woman academician from Assam died of blood infection and heart attack allegedly...
View ArticleDoctor faces misconduct charge over C-section
A doctor who showed a "striking lack of empathy" when he gave a woman inadequate pain relief during a Caesarean section birth is today before a medical tribunal. The doctor, who has name suppression,...
View ArticleEngineer-turned-quack arrested in Trichy
TRICHY: A civil engineer-turned-quack, who was practicing unauthorized allopathy treatment, ended in jail following a raid carried out by a team of health department officials near Puthanatham on the...
View ArticleBaby breastfed by wrong mother after newborn mix up at Gosford Hospital
A newborn baby has been breastfed by a stranger after a NSW hospital bungled the identities of two newborns, devastating one mother and potentially exposing the newborn to health risks. NSW health...
View ArticleNepal’s supposedly tiniest baby weighs 1.6 kg at age of 2 months
KASKI: In an extreme case of premature birth, a baby girl who weighed only half a kilogram during birth has survived and now is growing healthy, weighing 1.6 kg, doctors said. The baby, who is yet to...
View ArticleDoctors call for asylum seeker on Nauru to be brought to Australia to give birth
A heavily pregnant diabetic asylum seeker is receiving sufficient medical support in Nauru's detention centre, the Immigration Department says, despite doctors calling on Immigration Minister Peter...
View ArticleDoctors plead for pregnant refugee to be sent from Nauru to Australia for...
The 40-week pregnant woman has known health complications, but Nauru authorities have refused to transfer her to Australia for specialist care...
View ArticleA father’s tale of woe at University Hospital
IN February of this year when British barrister Sam Nicholls and his wife were rushed from another Caribbean island to Jamaica for the emergency delivery of their baby, they both knew the situation...
View ArticlePost-Occupy scars: Hong Kong doctors get record number of complaints for...
A record number of complaints against doctors in Hong Kong were filed with the Medical Council last year, particularly during the 79 days of the Occupy protests. In a recent judgment the High Court...
View ArticleIn Caring For Sickest Babies, Doctors Now Tap Parents For Tough Calls
4:30 AM ET Partner content from Jenny Gold Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET. i Kate Teague, a registered nurse at Lucile Packard Children's...
View ArticleBreast Cancer and Breastfeeding
by Jeanne Faulkner Three months after my baby was born, I found a painful lump in my armpit. I was just 39 and diagnosed with breast cancer that had spread to my lymph nodes. I had found a lump in my...
View ArticleCoping with the distress of early births
Anyone with children remembers the moment of awe when they first clap eyes on their newborn babies. We marvel at their perfect little bodies and their minute fingers and toes, and wonder how we will...
View ArticlePhysically-challenged youth kills father, critically injures mother
KANPUR: A physically-challenged inebriated 25-year-old youth allegedly killed his father and critically injured his mother as he was furious after they refused to let him get married. The shocking...
View ArticleKejriwal’s office takes up complaint of corruption against Delhi’s LNJP hosp
BAREILLY: A resident of Bareilly took the matter to the Delhi CM after someone demanded Rs 1.5 lakh for surgery on his sister-in-law, even though he was earlier told it would be conducted gratis. The...
View ArticleDoctor pulls baby's legs, head comes off
RAMPUR: A gynaecologist at the district hospital here could not have used a cruder method to deliver a baby. As the legs emerged first, the doctor tied the infant's limb to a rope and attempted to...
View ArticleDoc yanks off baby's head during delivery
RAMPUR: A gynaecologist at the district hospital here could not have used a cruder method to deliver a baby. As the legs emerged first, the doctor tied the infant's limb to a rope and attempted to...
View ArticleBox Hill nurse accused of ignoring doctors' orders to feed babies formula
A senior nurse in charge of Box Hill Hospital's special care nursery has been accused of ignoring doctors' orders to feed vulnerable babies formula and to provide them with oxygen. But the nurse,...
View ArticleIn Tennessee, Giving Birth To A Drug-Dependent Baby Can Be A Crime
3:22 PM ET Ari Shapiro Facebook Twitter Tumblr Instagram Mallory Yu i Brittany Crowe just completed an addiction treatment program that helped her regain custody of her children. Here she holds Allan,...
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