A new National Institutes of Health-supported study finds that patients receiving ventilator life support in the intermediate care units – a potentially less costly alternative for people not sick enough for the intensive care units (ICUs) but too ill for the general ward – of rural hospitals had significantly higher death rates than patients in the same type of unit at urban hospitals.
In a miraculous turn of events, 80-year-old Darshan Singh Brar, initially declared dead by doctors, came back to life after the ambulance transporting him hit a pothole in Haryana.
Living with diabetes, Carlton "PeeWee" Gautney Jr. relied on a digital device about the size of a deck of playing cards to pump insulin into his bloodstream.
Talented fashion designer Rohit Bal was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy a few days before being hospitalized on November 23 at the National Capital Region (NCR)'s Medanta Hospital in Gurugram. Rohit Bal's flamboyant couture is well-known. He had undergone an angioplasty and suffered a major heart attack in 2010. | Tellychakkar.com