Swapnil Mishra

20-yr-old denied MRI scan for more than a week; govt guidelines mandate free medical care for sex assault victims

Medics say unknown drug composition and delayed disclosure left little room to reverse toxicity, warning even small doses can turn deadly

MSHRC summons DMER Director, GT Hospital Dean after Mirror report flags alleged violation of free treatment norms for sexual assault survivor

As ecological collapse and urban toxicity erode natural fertility, a billion-dollar industry is rising to manufacture what the city has destroyed—fuelling a widening divide between high-tech luxury births and a predatory shadow market that preys on the desperate

After more than two decades of influenza testing in Mumbai, scientists have identified wheezing and sore throat as the strongest clinical predictors of influenza in critically ill patients, a finding that could help overcrowded public hospitals detect and treat cases faster during seasonal outbreaks. The study analysed Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) admissions between February and August 2025. Published in the International Journal of Medicine and Public Health and funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), it is being described as the city's first year-round surveillance study linking bedside symptoms with laboratory-confirmed influenza cases.

A long-running dispute over feeding community dogs inside Runwal Forest Cooperative Housing Society (CHS) in Kanjurmarg West has escalated into a police matter.

Blood collection at the Bharat Ratna Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar (Shatabdi) Hospital blood bank in Kandivali has plunged by 43 per cent in three years, dropping from 1,746 units in 2022-23 to just 992 units in 2025-26. The decline has been particularly stark in recent months, with the BMC-run facility collecting only 25 units each in April and May this year.

Twenty-four hours after Saki Naka resident Aslam Sheikh slipped into an open manhole on Khairani Road and lost his life, there is no clarity on why the manhole lid was removed and who authorised the civic work on a stretch where footpath encroachment is rampant. Additional Municipal Commissioner (Eastern Suburbs) Avinash Dhakane said no authorised work order had been issued for the location.

If the waterlogged roads won't kill you, falling trees and branches will. In a brutal, five-day monsoon onslaught, Mumbai has recorded 678 incidents of uprooted trees and collapsed branches, that have caused the death of at least three people, injuries to dozens and damage to property and automobiles running into several lakhs. Two of those deaths occurred on Sunday, one in Kurla and the other in Aarey Colony.

A ceiling slab collapsed on Saturday inside the recently renovated Paediatric Outpatient Department (OPD) at the BMC's VN Desai Hospital. No one was injured.