19-year-old man dies after eating 'chicken shawarma' from roadside vendor; two heldHe later again felt unwell following which his family members took him to the civic-run KEM Hospital on May 5. A doctor treated him and sen...
08 May, 2024, 12.38 PM IST
Post-Covid scourge? After mucormycosis, ‘bone death’ cases surging in Maharashtra: DoctorsCovid patients treated with steroids during long hospital stay are the common factors among those affected.
06 Jul, 2021, 03.18 PM IST
Mumbai: April deaths raise an alarm, trend may persist for a whileEven as Mumbai's positivity rate has started to slide, high number of deaths in April has become a cause for concern. In absolute numbers, ...
01 May, 2021, 11.03 AM IST
Old drug brings new hope for critically ill coronavirus patientsBMC-run hospitals have successfully tried an immunomodulatory drug to treat extremely critical cases.
03 May, 2020, 03.26 PM IST
Another Mumbai cop succumbs to COVID-19, 3rd death so farWhen the head constable was once again asked to go back to Kasturba Hospital, senior inspector Vinod Randive of Kurla traffic division was ...
27 Apr, 2020, 07.41 PM IST
Death toll in Elphinstone stampede in Mumbai rises to 23The dean of the hospital, Avinash Supe, said the deceased was identified as Satyendrakumar Kanojia who was in his late forties.
30 Sep, 2017, 04.07 PM IST
Alcohol to fight alcohol: Doctors use whisky therapyBYL Nair Hospital is using alcohol to treat alcohol poisoning. Ethyl alcohol neutralizes the effects of methanol. Both are alcohol variants...
20 Jun, 2015, 09.16 AM IST
Room No. 4 at KEM hospital to be named after Aruna ShanbaugHad she lived three weeks more, she would be celebrating her 68th birthday.
01 Jun, 2015, 05.21 PM IST
Holding on or letting go: How a tragedy turned into a tug-of-warMany tragedies reared out of the primary one of November 27, 1973, in which a spunky 25-year-old KEM nurse was sodo mised by a hospital war...
24 May, 2015, 12.32 PM IST
KEM Hospital clueless of Aruna Shanbaug's service recordsThe hospital management is making frantic efforts to trace service records of Aruna, who was seen as the face of a debate on euthanasia.
20 May, 2015, 03.22 PM IST
Demise of Aruna Shanbaug extremely painful: MH Governor Ch Vidyasagar RaoShanbaug had been in a vegetative state for the past 42 years after being brutally sexually assaulted at the KEM Hospital by a ward boy.
18 May, 2015, 03.45 PM IST
World's oldest comatose patient Aruna Shanbaug deadThe 66-year-old was battling a serious bout of pneumonia and was on ventilator support, King Edward Memorial (KEM) hospital sources said.
18 May, 2015, 01.39 PM IST
Mahim building collapse: Death toll rises to 10Six persons injured in the mishap that occurred last night were admitted in Bhabha Hospital at suburban Bandra, KEM and Sion Hospital.
11 Jun, 2013, 09.16 PM IST
- Govt against mercy killing, AG tells SC
The Centre has rejected the Law Commission's recommendation to allow terminally ill patients to choose death to end their suffering, attorn...
03 Mar, 2011, 05.19 AM IST
Swine flu claims four more lives, toll up to 33With the death of four people — two in Bangalore and one each in Aurangabad and Pune, the swine flu toll in the country mounted to 33.
20 Aug, 2009, 11.05 AM IST
- 7 blasts rock Mumbai, death toll 138
A series of 7 powerful bomb blasts exploded across Mumbai this evening leaving over 100 people dead.
11 Jul, 2006, 10.54 PM IST
- 104 people dead in Mumbai serial blasts: Police
More than 100 peple are feared dead in the serial blast that rocked Mumbai this evening.
11 Jul, 2006, 08.15 PM IST