Medical errors in top 10 killers: WHO
MUMBAI: Medicine heals, but this fact doesn`t hold true for every 300th patient admitted to hospital. Call it the law of averages or blame human error for it, but the World Health Organization believes that one in 10 hospital admissions leads to an adverse event and one in 300 admissions in death.
Indian doc's book on cancer wins Pulitzer Prize
BOSTON: Indian-American physician Siddhartha Mukherjee's acclaimed book on cancer, 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer,' has won the prestigious 2011 Pulitzer prize in the general non-fiction category.
Free generic medicines for AIIMS OPD patients
NEW DELHI: There is good news for the over 5,000 patients visiting AllMS OPD everyday. Now, they will get free medicines from the hospital. The Governing Body and the Institute Body of the premier institute have approved the plan for setting up a pharmacy which will have all 'essential medicines'. According to a senior official, the modality for procurement and distribution of the medicines is being finalized and the new system is likely to be put in place soon.
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