A woman delivered her baby in a government hospital park in Faridabad after the main gate was found locked and no staff responded to pleas ...

A Florida doctor faces a manslaughter charge. He is accused of removing a patient's liver instead of his spleen. The doctor stated he was "...

A 6-year-old boy, Loyalty Scott, died after being mauled by two dogs at a neighbor's home in Oregon. The neighbor, Koko Miller, was sentenc...

In a case of gross medical negligence at BHU Trauma Centre in Varanasi, a 71-year-old woman Radhika Devi was wrongly operated upon for hip ...

After a 43-year legal battle, the family of an employee fired for yelling at a company doctor has won back pay and post-death benefits. The...

A controversy erupted in Kakinada district after a baby died at a community health centre. Family members alleged a sanitary worker perform...

The Supreme Court held a hospital in Andhra Pradesh liable for a patient's death due to a doctor's negligence. The case pertained to the de...

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to protect doctors from criminal prosecution in cases of allege...

Indian Medical Association (IMA) praised GoI for criminal reforms absolving medical fraternity from liability under Section 304(a) of IPC, ...

The Indian government, responding to a request from the Indian Medical Association (IMA), plans to amend the criminal law bill to exempt do...

Supreme Court added, "the doctors are expected to take reasonable care, but no professional can assure that the patient will come back home...

NCDRC held the hospital and the treating doctors guilty of medical negligence and said that they were liable for the death of the three-yea...

The case was registered against a team of doctors on charges of causing hurt by an act of endangering life or personal safety.

The district consumer forum dismissed the plea on the ground that the victim was treated for free and hence the case did not come under the...

Bilaspur High Court granted bail to Dr R K Gupta, an accused in the Chhattisgarh sterilisation surgery case in which 12 women lost their li...

A Supreme Court judgement awarding record compensation payout for medical negligence in Kolkata has caused a rift in the medical fraternity.

If a patient dies or suffers due to medical negligence in a hospital then its management cannot be prosecuted, the Delhi High Court has sai...