Bihar- Hospitals

India has highest oral cancer cases tobacco guilty areca nut too

India has the dubious distinction of having the worlds largest number of oral cancer patients with an annual agestandardised incidence of 125 per 100000 says Dr Pankaj Chaturvedi Associate Professor Department of Head and Neck Oncology Tata Memorial Hospital Mumbai Oral cancer accounts for 94 per cent of all cancers in India oral cancer is not ... Read More

Write all prescriptions in capital letters Mumbai citizens tell doctors

MUMBAI It turns out that all those jokes about doctors scrawl are not funny at all Doctors illegible handwriting causes 7000 deaths in the US every year and another 15 million Americans report minor adverse reactionsbe it diarrhoea or rashesor even death Now a movement has begun in Mumbai asking the medical fraternity to write prescriptions i... Read More