The Israel-Iran conflict has entered its eighth day with no signs of de-escalation. Iran has fired over 400 ballistic missiles at Israel since Friday, targeting civilian areas and hospitals. Israel has attacked Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor and police headquarters. Israel claims eliminating Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is one of its war goals,…
Ayushman enrolments see dip as private hospitals back off over rates, delays (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Empanelment of hospitals under the Ayushman Bharat-PM Jan Arogya Yojana has dropped significantly, from an average of 316 per month in 2024 to 111 per month in 2025, as of April.Data shared by National Health Authority (NHA) on…
Israel’s strikes on a major hospital in southern Gaza on Tuesday, in a bid to kill a top Hamas commander, have drawn new attention to one of the war’s most contentious issues: Israeli attacks on medical facilities, and Hamas’s use of such sites for military purposes. The attack on the European Gaza Hospital complex near…
Nine years ago, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence scientists singled out an endangered occupational species. “People should stop training radiologists now,” Geoffrey Hinton said, adding that it was “just completely obvious” that within five years A.I. would outperform humans in that field. Today, radiologists — the physician specialists in medical imaging who look…
A man lay on a New York City sidewalk with a gun shot wound, clutching his side. Emily Borghard, a social worker who hands out supplies to the homeless through her nonprofit, found him and pulled out her phone, preparing to dial 911. But the man begged her not to make the call, she said….
A woman recently released after more than 15 months of captivity in Gaza refused any medical tests one day at the Israeli hospital that received her. The doctors were delighted. “We canceled a whole day’s schedule,” said Prof. Noa Eliakim-Raz, who heads the department that receives hostages at Beilinson Hospital near Tel Aviv. The woman’s…
The Trump administration has clarified that hospitals affiliated with Harvard University, including Mass General Brigham, will not face funding cuts as part of the ongoing federal funding freeze. While the freeze applies to Harvard University’s research funding, the independent medical and research hospitals remain unaffected. The distinction between Harvard University and its affiliated hospitals was…
A severe sandstorm has swept across central and southern Iraq over the last two days, turning the sky a strange orange, reducing visibility in some places to less than a half mile and sending several thousand people to emergency rooms with respiratory problems. Two airports suspended flights because of poor visibility, and the usually crowded…
An Israeli strike killed a security guard and wounded 10 patients at a field hospital in southern Gaza on Tuesday, according to the director of the medical facility. The deadly attack on the grounds of the Kuwait Specialty Field Hospital came two days after Israel attacked the Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, one…
The emergency department waiting room was jammed, as it always is, with patients sitting for hours, closely packed on hard metal chairs. Only those with conditions so dire they needed immediate care — like a heart attack — got seen immediately. One man had had enough. He pounded on the glass window in front of…