Mumbai: British scientists conducting a study on superbugs in London have discovered that a highly rare genetic fusion is to blame for the superbug NDM1. This fusion has given NDM1 the power to easily jump between various species of bacteria at a superfast speed, consequently making it drug resistant. The scientists, who first reported the NDM1 last year, have now found that NDM1, by jumping between bacteria strains, can make...
10:06 AM, Feb 13, 2012
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
As Yuvraj Singh battles cancer, experts discuss how India's healthcare has been fighting the challenge of cancer. ...
11:30 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Jammu: Flagging appropriate health care for women and children as a key ingredient in health service expansion and upgradation scheme in the state, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday stressed on ensuring cent percent benefits to pregnant women and newborns under National Rural Health Mission. "The pregnant women and newborn children are entitled under this programme to receive free medical treatment including medicine, investigation, diagnoses and blood...
03:42 AM, Feb 07, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government on Saturday decided to go for culling of fowls in the state capital from Sunday in the wake of detection of avian influenza in a farm of the Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO) in Bhubaneswar. "We have received advisory from the Central government to start culling," Satyabrata Sahu, secretary, Fisheries and Animal Resources Development department, said. About 30,000 fowls at the CPDO farm were likely to be...
08:31 PM, Feb 04, 2012
London: Malaria kills over 1.2 million people every year worldwide, twice as many deaths as thought earlier, while deaths from the mosquito-borne disease in India could be more than 45 times higher than what is currently estimated, a new study has claimed. Researchers at the University of Washington's Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation who collected data on malaria deaths from 1980 to 2010 found that 1.2 million people died...
05:17 PM, Feb 03, 2012
Payi Gyadi turmed Citizen Journalist to expose how Arunachal Pradesh Health Minister Atum Welly's children secured government jobs on fake university degrees. ...
09:53 AM, Feb 02, 2012
New Delhi: India has achieved a huge milestone in eradicating polio but when it comes to leprosy, the chilling fact is that cases are on the rise. In fact, India accounts for 55 per cent of the world's leprosy cases. India officially eliminated leprosy six years ago, but reports now suggest that the cases of leprosy are going up, especially in urban areas. Out of the 2.1 lakh cases in...
09:46 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Gurgaon: The condition of Anna Hazare admitted to a hospital in Gurgaon with complaints of breathlessness and high blood pressure is "fairly stable", doctors said on Monday. "We conducted a good number of investigations on him and as per the reports there are no surprises yet. His condition is fairly stable," Dr AK Dubey, Medical Superintendent at Medanta Medcity hospital, said. Dubey said a team of doctors led by cardiologist...
03:42 PM, Jan 30, 2012
CHENNAI: Healthcare in the State and the country is in the hands of the private sector, as shown by a white paper on private-public partnership in the health sector, released on Saturday. According to the findings of the study, conducted jointly by the AIDS Prevention and Control (APAC) Project, Voluntary Health Services (APAC-VHS), IIT-Madras, MSG Strategic Consulting with the support of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the...
08:50 AM, Jan 30, 2012
87-year-old Brahm Dutt Saigal, a resident of New Delhi, never took a leave in his entire career. He exercised regularly and went on long walks. Nowadays, the working population seems to be too busy or too stressed to take care of its health. ...
06:51 PM, Jan 28, 2012
When can a baby girl born in Madhya Pradesh expect to live as long and healthy as a baby girl born in Kerala, overcoming the six-fold higher risk of dying before her first birthday? When will a rural Indian have the same level of satisfaction about the healthcare he or she receives, as a foreign medical tourist featured in the brochures of corporate hospitals? Will the 40 million Indians, who...
10:17 AM, Jan 28, 2012
Los Angeles: Demi Moore smoked something before she was rushed to the hospital on Monday night and was convulsing and "semi-conscious, barely," according to a caller on a frantic 911 recording released Friday by Los Angeles fire officials. The woman tells emergency operators that Moore, 49, had been "having issues lately." "Is she breathing normal?" the operator asks. "No, not so normal. More kind of shaking, convulsing, burning up," the...
10:14 AM, Jan 28, 2012
London: Men, please note -- pillow talk after a passionate night does matter to ladies. In fact, it's as important for a healthy relationship as sex, says a study. Researchers at the University of Michigan have carried out the study and found that women whose partners nod off to sleep after being intimate are actually left feeling insecure and wanting attention. The study has found that cuddling and talking after...
06:13 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Lucknow: Sunil Verma, a project manager responsible for the upgradation of primary health centres under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), shot himself to death on Monday morning at his residence in Vikas Nagar. Verma is apparently the fourth official allegedly involved in the NRHM scam to kill himself. Three other UP government officials embroiled in the multi-crore scam - BP Singh, VK Arya and VS Sachan - are already...
09:26 PM, Jan 23, 2012
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