Rhythma Kaul works as an assistant editor at Hindustan Times. She covers health and related topics, including ministry of health and family welfare, government of India.
Articles by Rhythma Kaul
Noted Hindi author donates body to AIIMS
Noted Hindi litterateur Vishnu Prabhakar, 97, died in a city hospital late on Friday night. His family donated his body to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Saturday.
Updated on Apr 11, 2009 10:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
A new lease of life for HIV+ man
A 52-year-old Ugandan has become the first recorded case of a person with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, getting a liver transplant in India, reports Rhythma Kaul.
Updated on Apr 08, 2009 01:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
50% urban women have high BP, 2 out of 3 are overweight
A three-year study to assess the nutritional status of women in India came up with surprising findings: most urban women eat more than they should.
Updated on Apr 06, 2009 12:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
Walk away with pride
Experts say most of the paraplegia patients do not recover movement and remain bed-ridden for life. That’s why the quick recovery of these patients surprised even the surgeons who treated them, writes Rhythma Kaul.
Updated on Apr 04, 2009 11:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul
‘We’ll keep her soul alive forever’
Sixteen-and-a-half-month-old Abhilasha Rahurika became the youngest cadaver donor in the country when her parents agreed to donate her organs after she died of liver failure. Rhythma Kaul reports.
Updated on Mar 31, 2009 01:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
Thoracic cancer meet
On the second day of the 8th annual international conference RGCON-2009 organised by Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre with the theme “Thoracic Cancer: New Frontiers and Horizon”, medical researchers talked about the possibility of a cancer vaccine for lungs that can stop growth of the tumour.
Updated on Mar 29, 2009 12:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
AIIMS offers course in emergency care
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) trauma centre will start a two-day crash course to train doctors in emergency care next month, reports Rhythma Kaul.
Updated on Mar 25, 2009 03:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
2 new technologies for cancer patients
Apollo Hospital group has installed Asia Pacific’s most advanced cyberknife — a frameless robotic radio surgery system — at the Apollo specialty cancer hospital in Chennai, reports Rhythma Kaul.
Updated on Mar 15, 2009 12:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
Finally, AIIMS gets a head
Dr RC Deka, dean and head of the department otorhinolaryngology (ENT), took over as the new director at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) today. He is 60.
Updated on Mar 10, 2009 11:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
Teens light up to see the end of Board exam tunnel
Almost one in 10 students in Delhi and the NCR starts smoking to bust examination stress, found a survey of 2,000 students studying in Classes IX to XII in over 20 private schools in and around the NCR.
Updated on Mar 05, 2009 11:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
Heart stopper of a surgery
A six-member team, led by cardiac surgeon Dr Promod K Mittal, recently removed a massive tumour from inside the heart of a forty-five-year-old man at Fortis Escorts Hospital in Faridabad, reports Rhythma Kaul.
Updated on Mar 02, 2009 12:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
Post-graduate institute at RML becomes a reality
Ram Manohar Lohia hospital has become the first hospital in Delhi to boast of a Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, reports Rhythma Kaul.
Updated on Feb 25, 2009 11:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
OutPhysicianDepartment: 4 senior doctors check out of AIIMS
Four senior faculty members have quit over the last three months citing professional dissatisfaction as a major reason in an institute which has been without a director since Dr P. Venugopal resigned on July 2 last year, reports Rhythma Kaul.
Updated on Feb 24, 2009 11:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
More trauma centres for city
In an attempt to put in order trauma care facilities, the Delhi government has decided to open trauma centres at three of their prominent hospitals in the city — Lok Nayak hospital, Guru Tegh Bahadur hospital and Deen Dayal Upadhayay hospital, reports Rhythma Kaul.
Updated on Feb 23, 2009 12:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
In Hospital and Lovin’ it
Ekant Juneja, 13, was in hospital with viral pneumonia on his birthday last Thursday but he has no complaints. He had four friends over for the day and they watched films, played games on the Playstation portable, overdosed on hot chocolate, pizza and brownies, and danced till late at night to Akon while his parents stepped out for a movie to give them some time alone.
Updated on Feb 21, 2009 10:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanchita Sharma, Rhythma Kaul and Neha Bhayana
Chopper to cut rescue time
Delay in transferring an accident victim to hospital often results in death. But in six months from now, it will be possible to fly patients in urgent need of medical attention to the Trauma Centre at AIIMS, reports Rhythma Kaul.
Updated on Feb 21, 2009 01:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
Bypassing ugly scars of surgery
Cardiovascular surgeon Dr Naresh Trehan did another first in India by conducting a triple heart bypass surgery using the minimally invasive technique at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, reports Rhythma Kaul.
Updated on Feb 18, 2009 11:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
Now, a pace-maker for the brain
One needn’t look westward these days to cure a disabling ailment like Dystonia — a neurological disorder in which sustained muscle contractions cause twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures.
Updated on Feb 18, 2009 12:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
Missing tribal man returns
The tribal man from Jharkhand whom AIIMS doctors accused of running away with hospital property returned to the hospital, reports Rhythma Kaul.
Updated on Feb 07, 2009 01:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
Former PM Vajpayee critical, on ventilator
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s health worsened on Friday and has been put on ventilator at the AIIMS, reports Rhythma Kaul.
Updated on Feb 07, 2009 01:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
State-of-art polyclinic to come up at 2010 games site
The Delhi government is setting up a plush state-of-the-art polyclinic at the Commonwealth Games site. It will be open to all participants during the 2010 games and to the public after these conclude, reports Rhythma Kaul.
Updated on Feb 01, 2009 12:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
Yoga knows no religion
Despite clerics in Indonesia and Malaysia banning Muslims from doing yoga that includes Hindu chants, it’s business at usual at New Delhi’s Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga, reports Rhythma Kaul.
Updated on Jan 29, 2009 12:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi / Mumbai
AIIMS does its bit, help pours in for blast victim
It was a spontaneous gesture of concern. Touched by the story of a blast victim afflicted by poverty and pain, an initiative has been taken to reduce her suffering. The AIIMS has offered to do Sheetal Rawat’s dental reconstruction for free. Rhythma Kaul reports.
Updated on Jan 22, 2009 12:26 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
Sheetal’s date with dentist
For Sheetal Rawat, 11, Monday was a tough day. A visit to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences reminded her of the trauma she underwent in September last year. She was injured in the Mehrauli blast, reports Rhythma Kaul.
Updated on Jan 21, 2009 11:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
Poverty, pain grip Mehrauli blast victim
Sheetal Rawat, 11, has a tongue that is 75 per cent damaged, eight shattered teeth and shrapnel lodged in her spine.
Updated on Jan 18, 2009 01:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, Delhi
Four months on, blast survivor lives with shattered mouth
Sheetal Rawat, 11, was munching on chips on her way home from school when the Mehrauli bomb blast tore her life apart. Shrapnel found its way inside her mouth and cut her tongue and shattered her teeth, reports Rhythma Kaul
Updated on Jan 17, 2009 08:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
She has 4 kidneys
Lorna Irungu, 35, is a woman with four kidneys. No, she wasn’t born this way. The marketing and communication consultant from Kenya is one of the rare people who have had three kidney transplants, reports Rhythma Kaul.
Updated on Jan 16, 2009 12:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
Court intervenes to help patient
The Delhi High Court has directed Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital to readmit and treat a poor patient who was refused treatment at two hospitals in the city, reports Rhythma Kaul.
Updated on Jan 13, 2009 12:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
AIIMS cancer centre turns pain-free
The Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences has introduced pain management techniques for patients fighting the killer disease, reports Rhythma Kaul.
Updated on Jan 09, 2009 11:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi
Nurses plan stir against Pay Commision review
After doctors, it is the turn of nurses at various central and state government hospitals in the Capital to stop work over remuneration, reports Rhythma Kaul.
Updated on Jan 04, 2009 12:01 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rhythma Kaul, New Delhi