Mumbai: Cricketer Yuvraj Singh's battle against cancer has put the spotlight once again on the disease that claims 20,000 lives a day worldwide. The question is whether India is well equipped to battle the world's biggest killer. Diagnosed with germ cell cancer, cricketer Yuvraj Singh is currently undergoing chemotherapy in the United States. While it is a shocking news for his fans, but a cancer diagnosis in the 30s is...
07:22 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Can you imagine a country that added 200000 crippled children each year? Little children. Under 5 years of age. Those who just wanted to spend ...
07:51 PM, Jan 13, 2012
New Delhi: India has marked a significant milestone, with no new polio cases reported for one year. It's a result of a massive health programme,the routine pulse polio immunisation program. In the last few years India has mobilized 24 lakh volunteers and 1.5 lakh front line workers in an effort that's cost a 1000 crore rupees every year. "It's a big milestone - considering that there was a time when...
06:06 AM, Jan 13, 2012
A study finds that more than 68 per cent of milk tested is contaminated with water, detergent, even urea. ...
11:47 PM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: A glass of milk a day used to be a good idea. But, if the latest round of tests by the Food Safety Standards Authority are anything to go by, it's only safe to drink milk in Goa and Puducherry. A new report shows that in the first cup of morning milk, one is having a lot of things with milk, like starch, detergent, salt, glucose, urea and...
09:39 AM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: 2011 was a year not just of landmark political revolutions but also of medical marvels. Be it HIV prevention or a vaccine for malaria, 2011 saw many medical breakthroughs. Here's a look at the top five: HIV treatment as prevention: It has been deemed as the most important scientific breakthrough of the year 2011. A study published in the journal Science this year, found that the same drugs...
08:45 AM, Dec 29, 2011
New Delhi: A study has revealed that usage of birth control pills puts one at a greater risk for developing clogged veins and arteries. Popular birth control pills, Yaz and Yasmin, may leave one at a higher risk of clogged veins and arteries. In the US, the FDA has asked for new warning labels, which is something pharma major Bayer has said it will do. Yaz and Yasmin are the...
10:06 AM, Dec 19, 2011
New Delhi: Fourteen people have tested positive for Japanese Encephalitis in the capital. The viral disease which has affected Delhi for the first time this year has been spreading since it first surfaced in October. Earlier this year, it claimed 195 lives in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh alone. Delhi health authorities are worried that next year onwards Japanese Encephalitis might become endemic to Delhi. Chairman MCD Health Committee VK Monga said,...
08:29 AM, Dec 17, 2011
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It would be an understatement to say I am huge fan of yours! Of course I loved Dil Chahta Hai and Rock On and Zindagi... ...
07:03 PM, Dec 08, 2011
New Delhi: The new regulations on onscreen smoking that were handed out ambitiously by the the Health Ministry have been stalled as the Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) has given in to the plea of the film makers, asking for their creative rights. The I&B Ministry has stayed the no smoking regulations by the Health Ministry. In a letter from the I&B ministry to the Health Ministry, it is clear...
09:49 AM, Dec 08, 2011
New Delhi: Just a few days before the World AIDS day, an eye-opening report says at least 2.3 million people in the country are living with the virus. Many survivors have been fighting for quality of life. At least 2.3 million Indians live with HIV/AIDS, though the latest UNAIDS report states that the rate of infection in India has come down. It's no longer a death sentence, as survivor and...
09:27 AM, Nov 29, 2011
New Delhi: Shiba Phurailatpam, an HIV survivor, has been fighting for the rights of HIV positive people for the past 20 years. A drug user during his youth, Phurailatpam probably was infected through shared needles, along with many of his friends. "I have seen people, family putting this guy in a small room in their house and pushing the food through that hole underneath the door, saying you eat now....
08:51 AM, Nov 28, 2011
New Delhi: Civil Society groups working with HIV/AIDS patients have been demanding that the HIV Bill should be taken up in the winter session of Parliament. The bill has been waiting approval by the Union Health Ministry for more than 5 years now. Even as politics held the first day of the winter session hostage, not far from Parliament, on Monday, protestors gathered over a long-pending bill to deal with...
10:02 AM, Nov 23, 2011
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Frankly speaking, you don't know what to expect till it is in front of your eyes. Going to meet an eight-years-old kid dealing with epilepsy, ...
03:09 PM, Nov 21, 2011
New Delhi: In what comes as a worrying fact on the World Epilepsy day, around 10 million Indians suffer from the disorder, which is characterised by multiple seizures. India adds five lakh new cases of epilepsy in children every year. As many as 30 per cent of these children, like Kanika Singhal, do not respond well to medication, that is meant to control the seizures that characterise this disorder. "At...
09:50 AM, Nov 17, 2011
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