After struggling to make his way out from the Chandigarh Airport where a media contingent and eager fans made it difficult for him and other passengers from the same flight to exit, Yuvraj Singh reached his duplex home on May 1 in Mani Majra in a Mercedes car. Returning to Chandigarh for the first time after coming back from the US where he had received chemotherapy for a germ cell...
07:01 PM, May 02, 2012
Pune: With 11 swine flu deaths and 260 cases in all, Pune has become the epicentre of the outbreak this season. The virus has spread to eight other states including Andhra Pradesh which has reported nine deaths, maximum numbers after Pune. Pune has once again earned the dubious distinction of being the swine flu capital of the country. Nonetheless, for most people, the disease remains a mild illness. Three days...
06:20 AM, Apr 07, 2012
London: Aston Villa captain Stiliyan Petrov was given a minute's applause by fans during the team's Premier League match with Chelsea on Saturday, having said soccer would have to "take a back seat" after being diagnosed with acute leukemia. The applause began in the 19th minute at Villa Park - to match Petrov's shirt number - while the 32-year-old Bulgarian international watched the match with his family from the directors'...
03:22 PM, Apr 01, 2012
The malignant tumor is in the space between Yuvraj Singh's lungs, which is known as the mediastinum. ...
06:32 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Bhubaneshwar: Mission Ashra in Bhubaneshwar is using the Diwali festivities as therapy for women with special needs and helping them reunite with their families. It has transformed Indira Choudhary's life, giving the 38-year-old the much-needed refuge to recover from a nervous breakdown after her father's death in 2006. Regular treatment at 'Mission Ashra' and being a part of Diwali festivities has helped her overcome her demons. "Celebrating Diwali has been...
02:51 PM, Oct 25, 2011
New Delhi: Startling facts coming to light during Mental Health awareness week. A new study says that almost four crore Indians suffer from mental illnesses and there's an extreme shortage of psychiatrists. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) report, the number of suicides in India could be reduced by at least one-fourth if counselling is given on time. But there's an alarming shortage of trained psychiatrists. Arpita Anand, a...
09:46 AM, Oct 11, 2011
UPA Chief Sonia Gandhi made her first public appearance on October 2 after her recent illness. ...
10:36 PM, Oct 07, 2011
New Delhi: Amid intense speculation about Sonia Gandhi's health, the Congress party says its President is recuperating after a surgery in the US but no visitors are allowed to meet her. Many Congress functionaries are reluctant to discuss Gandhi's health condition. Most of those who are ready to discuss the subject request that they should not be identified by name or designation. Gandhi, 64, returned to India early on September...
10:15 AM, Sep 13, 2011
New York: Chinese and Indian workers are more likely to skip off work under the false pretence of illness than their French and Mexican counterparts, a new study showed. The Kronos Global Absence survey conducted online in July and released this week found that respondents from countries where there is more paid leave for employees were much less likely to cry off work with an invented illness than those from...
06:18 PM, Sep 02, 2011
The veteran actor feels abandoned by the B'wood in times of illness and financial hardships. ...
12:16 AM, Jan 21, 2011
Tokyo: Researchers testing survivors between 1985 and 2004 found people who had received high levels of radiation from the bomb blast were eight times more likely to develop a rare blood disease than those exposed to low levels. "It adds evidence to the fact that radiation even at moderately low doses is hazardous, and the diseases you can get aren't only cancers," said David J. Brenner, who heads the Center...
01:37 PM, Dec 15, 2010
Singapore: Parents may soon be able to find out if their unborn child is prone to any inherited diseases, researchers said on Thursday, after developing a non-invasive technique to draw the entire gene map of the human fetus. By analyzing a sample of the mother's blood, which contains DNA from the fetus, scientists in Hong Kong and the United States were able to identify all the DNA strands that belong...
12:17 PM, Dec 10, 2010
15 per cent of all health related disabilities in the country can be attributed to mental illness. ...
03:24 PM, Oct 10, 2010
Hospital authorities said his respiratory has problems increased. ...
02:34 PM, Jan 14, 2010
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