South Africa's anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela is comfortable and able to breathe without problems as he continues to respond to treatment in hospital for a recurrence of pneumonia, President Jacob Zuma's office said on Saturday. ...
12:25 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Former South African president Nelson Mandela was discharged from hospital on Sunday after undergoing a medical check-up, the presidency said. ...
03:45 AM, Mar 11, 2013
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's breathing problems have worsened and he is suffering from a "severe" new respiratory infection as he struggles to recover from cancer surgery, the government said in a somber medical update on Monday. The 58-year-old socialist leader has not been seen in public nor heard from in almost three months since undergoing the operation in Cuba. It was his fourth surgery since the disease was detected in...
11:16 AM, Mar 05, 2013
Four people have reportedly died because of swine flu in the national capital region. The Delhi government has confirmed that three people have died in its hospitals, while one person has died in Gurgaon. ...
10:18 AM, Feb 07, 2013
Former South African President Nelson Mandela has recovered from a lung infection and surgery to remove gallstones that kept him in hospital for nearly three weeks, the government said on Sunday. ...
12:39 AM, Jan 07, 2013
Something as innocuous as touching your face could infect you with flu, especially after your hands brush with contaminated surfaces, according to a study. ...
02:23 PM, Dec 03, 2012
New Delhi: The end of the monsoon season has once again resulted in a spurt of cases of swine influenza, also knows as swine flu, across India. Pune is the worse affected city in the country. 226 people were affected by the H1N1 infection killing 9 between June and September this year. According to reports, four people died in September alone in Pune. In Madhya Pradesh, over a hundred persons...
10:08 AM, Oct 08, 2012
Geneva: The World Health Organization on Wednesday urged health workers around the world to report any patient with acute respiratory infection who may have traveled to Saudi Arabia or Qatar and been exposed to a new SARS-like virus confirmed in two people so far. The United Nations agency put out a global alert on Sunday saying a new virus had infected a 49-year-old Qatari who had recently traveled to Saudi...
04:00 PM, Sep 26, 2012
Chennai: A 30-year-old woman landed up in the Intensive Care Unit of a hospital in Tondiarpet due to severe infection caused by a surgical napkin that found its way inside her during an earlier surgery. The napkin has since been surgically removed. According to Mahesh (31), the husband of the Ajitha (30), doctors who conducted a Caesarian Section on her to deliver the couples second child in February allegedly sewed...
12:32 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Hyderabad: There is a certain chill in the air. The intermittent rains in the last few weeks coupled with contaminated drinking water has made life miserable for literally thousands of Hyderabadis. A staggering 19,891 cases of viral infections were treated at the Fever Hospital in August alone. These were all out-patient cases. In the same month, 10,268 patients were admitted " needless to say a majority of them were in...
03:36 PM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: The number of new annual HIV infections has declined by around 56 per cent during the last decade in the country, the Lok Sabha was informed Friday. Minister of State for Health S Gandhiselvan said that based on HIV estimations 2010, it is estimated that India had approximately 1.2 lakh new infections in 2009, as against 2.7 lakh in 2000. "Similar reduction in HIV incidence has been noted...
03:24 PM, Aug 24, 2012
Bangalore: Popularly known as Black Kites and formerly as Pariah kites, the Milvus migrans is today a creature of the urban milieu, swooping and hovering over dead carcasses and inedible animal parts and inhabiting the densely populated areas of the city which has a high concentration of slaughterhouses, butcher shops and meat markets. A bird of the urban landscape, the Pariah Kites are basically scavengers, feeding mainly on carnivorous food....
01:52 PM, Jul 12, 2012
India-born Ghazal legend Mehdi Hassan died on Wednesday following multiple organ failure at the age of 84. ...
01:37 PM, Jun 13, 2012
Carrollton, Ga: A blood drive is being held at University of West Georgia for a student fighting a flesh-eating bacteria that threatens her life. Aimee Copeland's left leg has been amputated, and her parents say she will likely lose her fingers as well after the infection spread rapidly through her body. The 24-year-old graduate student has been in critical condition at an Augusta hospital after the bacteria took hold in...
07:40 PM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old Falak on Friday showed some signs of improvement with doctors saying the infection in her brain has started subsiding. Doctors are waiting for the infection to come down further to conduct another life saving surgery on her. "Finally the infection in her brain is receding. The sample culture of the brain on Friday showed no infection. If similar results come forth in the next couple of days...
08:31 PM, Feb 17, 2012
New Delhi: Doctors at AIIMS on Thursday said two-year-old Falak continues to remain in a critical state but was responding well to treatment. Admitted in a battered state at the AIIMS Trauma Centre here 23 days ago, her infection levels have receded, neurosurgeon Deepak Agarwal said. "The culture test of the blood and the chest sample showed no infection but the same was not in case of the brain. This...
10:02 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Karachi: India-born legendary Ghazal singer Mehdi Hassan was on Thursday put on a ventilator at a private clinic in Pakistan's Sindh provincial capital Karachi after he collapsed due to respiratory problems. Eighty-four-year-old Hassan has been ill for the last few years due to a serious lung condition that has led to complications and breathing problems. "He is still in the ICU and doctors are looking after him round the clock....
10:30 AM, Jan 13, 2012
Mumbai: Since Thursday night, cops at the Kurla GRP police station have been quaking with fear. The source of their great apprehension is a man being incarcerated in a cell at the station, on charges of robbery and cheating, who claims he is HIV positive, and pounces on cops to bite them, whenever they approach him for interrogations. The cowering cops, terrified that they will contract the deadly infection from...
11:46 AM, Nov 25, 2011
Mumbai: It is not just a stubborn, multi-drug resistant form of tuberculosis that patients admitted to the Sewri TB hospital have to battle against every day -- rather, it's full-fledged war between man and beast at the civic-run facility. Daily at the hospital, end-stage TB patients -- weakened by their prolonged battle with the disease -- have to wage a veritable struggle with the 45-strong cat army, for basic resources...
11:44 AM, Nov 23, 2011
New Delhi: India is hosting a global summit on antibiotic resistance in the Capital this week. This comes post the NDM1 superbug controversy which had put the spotlight on hospital acquired infections. Hospital acquired infections are a dangerous trend that has doctors in India worried. Dr Gaurav Gupta said, "We may treat the patient for the disease he has - but he may die of the infection he got inside...
08:51 AM, Oct 03, 2011
