New Delhi: A pair of wings on the back, a butterfly on the ankle or simply a pair of initials on the hand - beautifully designed tattoos are a craze these days. But getting yourself inked can expose you to the dangerous hepatitis B or C virus and even HIV, warn doctors. Getting a permanent tattoo involves piercing the skin with a needle and injecting coloured ink in different designs....
12:16 PM, Jul 28, 2011
New Delhi: A latest report from the WHO says that viral Hepatitis will kill over five million people in South-East Asia in the next ten years. Thirty-year-old Karan was shocked to learn that not only did he have Hepatitis, but that infections from multiple viruses can co-occur. He works at a hospital himself but nothing prepared him for a serious bout of liver infection, last November. Karan said, "I was...
08:44 AM, Jul 28, 2011
Washington: There's new hope for an overlooked epidemic: Two powerful drugs are nearing the market that promise to help cure many more people of liver-attacking hepatitis C - even though most who have the simmering infection don't know it yet. Surprisingly, two-thirds of hepatitis C sufferers are thought to be baby boomers who've harbored since their younger, perhaps wilder, years a virus that can take two or three decades to...
04:31 PM, Jan 19, 2011
New Delhi: To tackle New Delhi's worst outbreak of dengue fever in the past decade, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is running what it calls -- funnily so -- its terminator train, full throttle. The initiative has been started by the Railways to curb the dengue menace in the city. The train sprays anti-larvicides, or chemicals that can kill all kinds of mosquitoes’ breeding, wherever it goes. The train...
01:23 PM, Sep 25, 2010
Eight Thalassemic children in Jodhpur have tested HIV positive after blood transfusion at a government hospital. ...
11:56 PM, Jul 12, 2010
A probe by the Thalassemia Society has revealed that 51 patients got infected during blood transfusion in Jodhpur. ...
09:52 AM, Jul 12, 2010
Liver cancer is the fifth most common cancer and the third leading cause of global cancer death. ...
10:10 AM, May 20, 2010
Police raided a number of blood banks in Lucknow last week. ...
04:38 PM, Aug 30, 2009
Every fifteenth carrier of the Hepatitis C virus is an Indian, say reports. ...
01:59 PM, Apr 01, 2009
Of the 119 Hepatitis B cases detected so far, 22 patients have been discharged after treatment ...
10:16 PM, Feb 21, 2009
Gujarat health department says that this death toll could rise. ...
09:52 PM, Feb 21, 2009
FIR registered against five doctors for the outbreak of hepatitis-B. ...
12:15 PM, Feb 21, 2009
Rajdeep Sardesai, Harsha Bhogle and Gaurav Kalra discuss how the Mumbaikar missed the landmark of 100 tons. ...
09:21 PM, Mar 24, 2008
New Delhi: India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said it feels good to be on the winning side with a bunch of youngsters who showed the way in taking a 2-0 lead in the five match ODI series against England at the Feroz shah Kotla here on Monday. The hosts sealed an eight wicket victory over England following their 126-run win at Hyderabad Friday. Dhoni said his young team showed a...
12:34 AM, Mar 11, 2008
New Delhi: India's most successful Test skipper Sourav Ganguly says the time is not right for senior players to retire and selectors should not force them to quit the game. Players like Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman should decide on their own when it comes to taking a call on quitting the game. The day their performance drops, they will leave on their own, Ganguly said. Dravid and...
03:41 PM, Mar 01, 2008
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