The heart cells created from patients' skin are at the same stage of development as those of a newborn baby. The study is exciting for ...
04:47 PM, May 24, 2012
Mumbai: In a shocking study published in medical journal, The Lancet, scientists have found that one-third of malaria medicines in South East Asia and Africa are either fake or of poor quality. What is even worse is that a majority of these fake medicines are being manufactured in India and China. According to teh World Health Organisation (WHO), 2,500 people die worldwide every day of malaria. The Lancet study says ...
01:14 PM, May 24, 2012
Mumbai: In a shocking study published in medical journal, The Lancet, scientists have found that one-third of malaria medicines in South East Asia and Africa are either fake or of poor quality. What is even worse is that a majority of these fake medicines are being manufactured in India and China. According to teh World Health Organisation (WHO), 2,500 people die worldwide every day of malaria. The Lancet study says...
01:14 PM, May 24, 2012
...And this is not a cliche anymore... Wolfing junk food like burgers, pizzas, pastas, fried chicken, and washing it down with can-loads of ...
12:16 PM, May 15, 2012
Mumbai: The Indian Patent Office has given the Hyderabad-based Natco Pharma Limited the go-ahead in the form of a compulsory license to legally make and sell a low-cost generic version of German company Bayer's anti-cancer drug, Nexavar. The Controller of Patents PH Kurian, in a 62-page ruling, observed that with Nexavar priced at Rs 2,80,000 for a month's treatment, Bayer has not adequately worked the patent, adding that Nexavar was...
07:02 PM, Mar 13, 2012
Mumbai: A new concern has come to light for those battling breast cancer. A drug commonly used in India to treat the condition has been found to decrease bone density in older women. Considered a 'wonder drug' for breast cancer treatment, Exemestane, sold under the brand name, Aromasin, is commonly used in India. It is often prescribed for daily use to breast cancer patients for a period of five years....
09:51 AM, Mar 01, 2012
Mumbai: In a dangerous trend, tuberculosis, which already kills a thousand people everyday in the country, has mutated yet again - this time infecting 12 people with an incurable form of the disease. It doesn't get any more alarming. As you read this story, India is being gripped by a lethal mutated strain of tuberculosis which has no cure. In the last three months alone, Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai has...
09:06 AM, Jan 08, 2012
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It's a eureka moment for scientists ... Experts have made a breakthrough with a malaria Vaccine being clinically tested in Africa right now. The new ...
11:57 AM, Oct 24, 2011
New Delhi: Startling facts coming to light during Mental Health awareness week. A new study says that almost four crore Indians suffer from mental illnesses and there's an extreme shortage of psychiatrists. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) report, the number of suicides in India could be reduced by at least one-fourth if counselling is given on time. But there's an alarming shortage of trained psychiatrists. Arpita Anand, a...
09:46 AM, Oct 11, 2011
Mumbai: Recent data reveals that around five million Indians suffer from heart problems. Huge amount of stress, lack of exercise and bad eating habits are some of the reasons doctors in India say almost half of their cardiac patients are well below the age of 40. Pramod, 23, a heart patient said that he never saw any warning signs. "I was returning home from a party when suddenly was it...
08:41 AM, Sep 29, 2011
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How different could a 23-year-old Mumbaikar be? So I thought, before I met Pramod, an animator by profession. Stuck in a sort of limbo, a ...
04:34 PM, Sep 28, 2011
Mumbai: A 24-year-old businessman who was injured in the Zaveri Bazar died in hospital on Friday, taking the toll to 19 in the Mumbai serial Blasts. Doctors, who tried to save Nikhil Damka and 130 others injured, have been working tirelessly since that fatal evening. "The sight was gruesome. You can't describe even though the doctors are used to seeing gruesome sights, this can't be put to words," Doctor Rajesh ...
08:02 AM, Jul 16, 2011
Mumbai: A 24-year-old businessman who was injured in the Zaveri Bazar died in hospital on Friday, taking the toll to 19 in the Mumbai serial Blasts. Doctors, who tried to save Nikhil Damka and 130 others injured, have been working tirelessly since that fatal evening. "The sight was gruesome. You can't describe even though the doctors are used to seeing gruesome sights, this can't be put to words," Doctor Rajesh...
08:02 AM, Jul 16, 2011
Mumbai: The morning after Wednesday's terror attacks, Mumbai was back on its feet as people went to office and children attended schools. The question is - is it the spirit of Mumbai at work or has the city learnt to live with terror? Amid the suffering all around, one-year-old Soni smiled and chuckled at the camera, oblivious to the fact that her father is hanging between life and death, having...
07:34 AM, Jul 15, 2011
Mumbai: The Supreme Court is expected to deliver its verdict in Nurse Aruna Shanbaug's mercy killing petition on Monday. She has been living in a vegetative state for the last 30 years after a brutal sexual assault. Tidi Makhwana, a former employee of KEM Hospital, said, "I stayed with her for many years. She should not die as she is not creating any problems for anyone." For 25 years, 58-year-old...
07:27 AM, Mar 07, 2011
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