Ice Doctors

Days after a Mumbai doctor got the shock of his life when he found a human finger in an ice cream cone, police have found a breakthrough that may answer the big question -- whose finger is it?

The FSSAI Western Region office has suspended the license of an ice cream manufacturer in Pune after a 26-year-old doctor from Malad West alleged that he found a human finger in an ice cream cone on Wednesday.

This one is not for the faint-hearted. Mumbai doctor Orlem Brandon Serrao ordered an ice cream online on Tuesday, and got an extra "topping" he hadn't bargained for - a human finger.

Japan's vaccination roll-out faces logistical hurdles that could further delay the slow-moving campaign, experts and officials say, complicating plans to deliver wide-scale coronavirus inoculations in time for the Olympics.

A private hospital at Muzaffarnagar's New Mandi area in Uttar Pradesh has been sealed after a doctor there was charged for allegedly stealing a kidney of a patient during surgery to remove stones from the organ, an official said.

Surgeons at the AIIMS have successfully removed an ice pick lodged deep in the upper chest of a 27-year-old man through a minimally invasive video-assisted thoracic surgery.

When army rescuers found Lance Naik Hanamanthappa Koppad six days after his fibre-reinforced hut was buried in ice by an avalanche, he was unconscious with a pulse so weak that it was barely detectable. But an army doctor, part of the rescue team at the Sonam post, at an altitude of 19,600 feet, managed to revive the soldier.

"I injured myself last night at a shoot. Just when I recovered from a chest infection, this happened. No. Nothing to worry. I have injured my rib cage. It pains and so when I breathe it hurts. I am doing ice pack and pain killers. I have spoken to my doctor," wrote Big B on his blog

Ang Kami Sherpa is one of Nepal's most experienced "ice doctors" - the mountaineers who brave Mount Everest's treacherous Khumbu icefall to prepare it for the climbing season - but even he is more nervous than usual this time round.

Doctor Lago was with her kids, Doctor Fernandez was at Pilates class and Doctors Arsuaga and De la Calle were eating chocolate ice cream, when the call came about Ebola.

When she took her seat during the changeover, she wrapped a towel stuffed with ice around her neck and was examined by the primary health care provider for the women's tour, Victoria Simpson, and by a tournament doctor, Tim Wood. She then left the court for further treatment, leaving Stephens, in her first Grand Slam semifinal, waiting nearly ...

Lowering the body temperature of patients who have sustained severe brain injuries may aid their recovery and reduce their risk of dying, a recent research reported. To lower body temperature, doctors generally put patients on a cooling blanket and may place ice packs around the head and other areas.

Days after a Mumbai doctor got the shock of his life when he found a human finger in an ice cream cone, police have found a breakthrough that may answer the big question -- whose finger is it?

The FSSAI Western Region office has suspended the license of an ice cream manufacturer in Pune after a 26-year-old doctor from Malad West alleged that he found a human finger in an ice cream cone on Wednesday.

This one is not for the faint-hearted. Mumbai doctor Orlem Brandon Serrao ordered an ice cream online on Tuesday, and got an extra "topping" he hadn't bargained for - a human finger.

Japan's vaccination roll-out faces logistical hurdles that could further delay the slow-moving campaign, experts and officials say, complicating plans to deliver wide-scale coronavirus inoculations in time for the Olympics.

A private hospital at Muzaffarnagar's New Mandi area in Uttar Pradesh has been sealed after a doctor there was charged for allegedly stealing a kidney of a patient during surgery to remove stones from the organ, an official said.

Surgeons at the AIIMS have successfully removed an ice pick lodged deep in the upper chest of a 27-year-old man through a minimally invasive video-assisted thoracic surgery.

When army rescuers found Lance Naik Hanamanthappa Koppad six days after his fibre-reinforced hut was buried in ice by an avalanche, he was unconscious with a pulse so weak that it was barely detectable. But an army doctor, part of the rescue team at the Sonam post, at an altitude of 19,600 feet, managed to revive the soldier.

"I injured myself last night at a shoot. Just when I recovered from a chest infection, this happened. No. Nothing to worry. I have injured my rib cage. It pains and so when I breathe it hurts. I am doing ice pack and pain killers. I have spoken to my doctor," wrote Big B on his blog

Ang Kami Sherpa is one of Nepal's most experienced "ice doctors" - the mountaineers who brave Mount Everest's treacherous Khumbu icefall to prepare it for the climbing season - but even he is more nervous than usual this time round.

Doctor Lago was with her kids, Doctor Fernandez was at Pilates class and Doctors Arsuaga and De la Calle were eating chocolate ice cream, when the call came about Ebola.

When she took her seat during the changeover, she wrapped a towel stuffed with ice around her neck and was examined by the primary health care provider for the women's tour, Victoria Simpson, and by a tournament doctor, Tim Wood. She then left the court for further treatment, leaving Stephens, in her first Grand Slam semifinal, waiting nearly ...

Lowering the body temperature of patients who have sustained severe brain injuries may aid their recovery and reduce their risk of dying, a recent research reported. To lower body temperature, doctors generally put patients on a cooling blanket and may place ice packs around the head and other areas.