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How vaccine misinformation has spawned 'pure blood' movement
•COVID-19 misinformation has spawned a ‘pure blood’ movement. The movement spins anti-vaccine narratives based on false claims that receiving blood from people who have been immunised against the coronavirus ‘contaminates’ the body
Infected doctors, no beds, long queues: How Chinese hospitals are struggling with COVID surge
•COVID-19 cases are increasing as China opens up. The healthcare system is under stress, and crematoriums are struggling to keep up with the influx of bodies. Doctors are working despite being infected and beds are full of elderly people struggling to breathe
How UK medics successfully treated a 13-year-old girl with leukaemia for the first time
•Thirteen-year-old Alyssa suffering from 'incurable' T-cell leukemia received the groundbreaking treatment of base-edited T cells and went into remission
Why is the world running out of helium? Why are doctors worried?
Fp Explainers •While helium is the second most abundant element in the known universe, finding it on Earth is a different matter. Only a few countries produce the inert gas used in liquid form to cool MRIs – an essential tool for doctors
Extremely saddened to witness rising violence against doctors, they need better environment: CJI
•The CJI said that he would also like to pay his tribute to the unending spirit of doctors, who work tirelessly round the clock for their patients
Even death of patient on the face of it cannot be medical negligence, says Supreme Court
•Supreme Court said that it clearly emerges from the exposition of law that a medical practitioner is not to be held liable simply because things went wrong from mischance or misadventure
Long COVID-19: Breathlessness, eye problem, muscle weakness, dementia most common symptoms, say doctors
•According to World Health Organisation, current evidence suggests approximately 10-20 per cent of people experience a variety of mid and long-term effects after they recover from the initial infection.
India to get record number of doctors in next 10 years, says PM Modi
•Modi dedicated a 200-bed KK Patel Mutli-speciality Hospital built by the Leuva Patel community in Bhuj to the nation
Plea in SC seeks guidelines for protection of doctors against physical assault over treatment
•The plea has sought directions for constituting a CBI enquiry into the circumstances which led to the unfortunate death of a young doctor by committing suicide
Explained: What the Hippocratic Oath is and proposal of replacing it with Charak Shapath
Fp Staff •The Hippocratic oath, administered to medical students when they transition from pre-clinical to clinical subjects, is an ethical code undertaken by physicians across the world and is believed to have been written by Greek physician Hippocrates