
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

Lahore: The number of people who died after taking spurious drugs supplied by a state-run hospital in Pakistan's Punjab province has touched 100 even as scores more continue to be treated in hospitals across the province, officials said on Thursday. Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, who also holds the health portfolio, on Wednesday acknowledged that drugs supplied by the Punjab Institute of Cardiology had caused the deaths of 100 patients. Earlier,...

08:19 AM, Jan 27, 2012

Mumbai: A group of senior citizens who have undergone bypass heart surgeries will run in a marathon in Mumbai on January 16. It's shorts, sports shoes, spirit and game faces on for the enthusiastic senior citizens. 75 bypass heart surgery patients from the Asian Heart Institute's Cardiac rehab centre will be running with one common goal. A bypass patient Jatin Parikh said, "This marathon is not about competing against someone,...

02:18 PM, Jan 15, 2011

An Australian study now says that heart break can also lead to heart attacks. ...

02:25 PM, Oct 01, 2009

Six out of 10 patients reach hospitals well after the golden hour. ...

01:35 PM, Apr 14, 2009

New Delhi: An autobiography of Pakistani stump-wrecker Shoaib Akhtar, who holds the record for the fastest delivery in cricket ever clocking 161.3 km/h (100.2 mph), will offer revealing insights into the game, its intricacies and highs and lows - inside the dressing room and outside. The book, unveiled by HarperCollins-India on the fast bowler's birthday on Saturday, will arrive in the market in September. Akhtar, nicknamed 'Rawalpindi Express', took time...

04:47 PM, Feb 20, 2008

Sydney: Cricketer-turned-commentator Ian Chappell continued with his scathing remarks over Ricky Ponting's captaincy and on Monday objected to his presence in the Australian dressing room during the fifth and last Ashes Test in Sydney. Chappell feels Ponting, who is out of the final Ashes Test due to a broken finger, should have stayed away from the dressing room to give freedom to stand-in captain Michael Clarke. Ponting sat in the...

03:51 PM, Nov 24, 2007

The debate over stents is raising serious questions for heart patients. ...

04:02 PM, Sep 10, 2007