India unveils cheap Rotavac diarrhoea vaccine
Source: Pak Tribune
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-20 01:52:13 -0700 | health-news
Scientists in India have unveiled a new low-cost vaccine against a deadly virus that kills about half a million children around the world each year. Rotavirus causes dehydration and severe diarrhoea and spreads through contaminated hands and surfaces and is...
Travellers nightmare: Yellow fever vaccine st...
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-19 15:00:50 -0700 | health-news
With the only government-run production unit for yellow fever vaccine in Kasauli out of order for nearly two years, most authorised vaccine centres in the country are fast running out of stock. This has prompted the Ministry of Health to...
Cops face probe after rape accused flees custody
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-19 15:00:01 -0700 | health-news
Police Sunday initiated a departmental inquiry against three personnel from Khar police station after Dr Rustom Sonawala, accused of raping a TB patient, escaped from custody a day earlier. "We have initiated a departmental inquiry against the police personnel who...
Doctors look to law for healing touch
Source: The Hindu
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-19 14:50:31 -0700 | health-news
Seek concrete steps, enforcement after yet another attack on medical professionals The latest incident of medical personnel being roughed up has led to an uproar among members of the community who continue to feel vulnerable despite laws to ensure their...
The drug-diet question
Source: The Hindu
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-19 09:28:15 -0700 | health-news
Some foods can interfere with the efficacy of a drug and vice versa. If a drug has been prescribed for long-term use, it is best to check their interaction with food Did you know that drugs and foods interacted? Certain...
Alcoholics who smoke risk faster brain aging
Source: The Hindu
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-19 03:44:37 -0700 | health-news
Alcoholics who smoke develop more problems with memory, ability to think quickly and efficiently, and problem-solving skills than those who don't smoke, a first-of-its-kind study has found. The study looked at the interactive effects of smoking status and age on...
Seeking clues to heart disease in the DNA of an unlucky family
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 17:19:14 -0700 | health-news
Early heart disease ran in Rick Del Sontro's family, and every time he went for a run, he was scared his heart would betray him...He stayed lean, kept away from red meat, spurned cigarettes and exercised intensely, even completing an...
Infertility on the rise among working class, city docs advise couples to go on vacations
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 15:10:20 -0700 | health-news
On an average, we receive 90 to 100 cases daily with problems of infertility. Ten years ago, barely 300 people consulted us with the problem, but at present, the number has increased to more than 1,500 patients a year," Dr...
Tackling gestational diabetes in the womb
Source: The Hindu
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 14:49:27 -0700 | health-news
When they give us those alarming figures about diabetes in the country, they are not even counting the three million women who are pregnant and diabetic every year. It is estimated that about 10 per cent of women who get...
What is your real age?
Source: The Hindu
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 04:56:22 -0700 | health-news
Most people would like to be younger than their chronological age...Exercise is definitely the closest we have to an anti-ageing pill. Expensive skin creams that promise to make your wrinkles disappear, cosmetic surgery, laser ablation and botox are but superficial...
Healthy diet and lifestyle essential to battle the bulge
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 00:46:40 -0700 | health-news
Body awareness and health have assumed importance, like never before. There is a clear shift in mindsets not only among the youth, but across gender and age. Men and women even in their 60s and 70s are slipping on their...
Political unifier: After Gadkari, Cong MLA Renu Jogi undergoes weight reduction surgery
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 00:04:50 -0700 | health-news
Former BJP president Nitin Gadkari had undergone a much-publicised operation to reduce his weight some time back. Now it is the turn of Renu Jogi, wife of former Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi. Incidentally, Renu, a sitting Congress MLA in...
FIR against 3 BHU doctors for graft
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-17 17:12:08 -0700 | health-news
An FIR has been lodged against three doctors of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) on charges of corruption and for allegedly performing procedures on patients without getting permission from them. The FIR was lodged by a student of the university against...
391 Central police personnel died of AIDS in 7 yrs: MHA
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-17 17:11:13 -0700 | health-news
A Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) data says in the last seven years, 391 personnel have died due to the disease. Officials said personnel posted away from family for long periods are most prone to the disease...While over 1,300 personnel...
Outpatient services thrown out of gear in Jipmer
Source: The Hindu
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-17 15:08:21 -0700 | health-news
Doctors, interns go on token strike demanding protection The outpatient services at Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer) were thrown out of gear on Friday as the members of Resident Doctors' Association went on a token strike...
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