Friday 6 November '09
A study conducted at the Armed Forces Medical College has revealed that there is a high prevalence of childhood tuberculosis among children below four years of age and malnutrition and low resistance to the disease still constitute among the risk factors.Friday 6 November '09
Twenty-eight-year-old Mohini Santosh Undre from Manjari Khurd of Haveli taluka in Pune district became the 100th H1N1 victim in the district.Monday
2 November '09In a fortnight, the city’s bio-medical waste, which was being sent to faraway places like Taloja near Thane and Satara for disposal, will be taken to the new facility at Kailash crematorium.Friday
30 October '09A brain stroke can be as lethal as a heart attack, but no data have been collected so far at the national level on the former.Friday
30 October '09With fewer swine flu cases being reported in the city compared to other areas in the state, a question that is at the forefront is whether people have acquired some level of immunity against the virus.Thursday
29 October '09HIV-TB co-infection is on the increase in the city. And according to the Pune Municipal Corporation’s Tuberculosis control unit, in the last one year 232 people of 1,229 who had TB infection, were detected with HIV.Tuesday
27 October '09If health has to be affordable to all, the Indian academia needs to pushed harder to throw up solutions for medical problems.Saturday
24 October '09Pune City faces an outbreak of dengue with as many as 35-40 patients undergoing treatment in a single hospital alone. The disease has already claimed three lives.Saturday
24 October '09The city faces an outbreak of dengue with as many as 35-40 patients undergoing treatment in a single hospital alone.Friday
23 October '09Of the 185 deaths due to the H1IN1 virus in Maharashtra, 119 persons were from the age group of 16-45 years and Tamiflu was not given in 17 cases.Thursday
22 October '09The city may just be looking at a brighter future. The Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) has decided to expand its role from power supplier to power purchaser to ensure zero load shedding in Pune.Wednesday
21 October '09Diabetes is out of control, says the International Diabetes Federation which released new data on Tuesday that a staggering 285 million people worldwide have diabetes.Wednesday
21 October '09With two more deaths in the last couple of days, the toll due to H1N1 virus is now 87 in the Pune district.Thursday
15 October '09If the incidence of burn injuries due to bursting firecrackers has decreased over the years, then there has been a dip in the noise levels too!Thursday
15 October '09This year’s Diwali could be special to 25 HIV orphans of Mamata Foundation if its initiative to get them ‘adopted’ by city-based families...Tuesday
13 October '09Is there a urban-rural divide in the occurrence of rheumatic musculo-skeletal disorders? The difference was striking when a population survey conducted by the city-based Centre for Rheumatic Diseases...Tuesday
13 October '09It’s quite symptomatic of what has gone wrong with the voter registrations in Pune, says Daigo Almeida, president of Catholic Association of Pune...Saturday
10 October '09With two more deaths-one each from Ahmednagar district and Velha taluka in Pune-the core committee that meets daily under the leadership of Additional Chief Secretary Sharvari Gokhale...Friday
9 October '09A new human antibody to neutralise the rabies virus, developed by the Serum Institute of India and the University of Massachusetts, is being tested among 84 people at the KEM hospital in Mumbai.Wednesday
7 October '09Diabetes is still poorly controlled in India owing to delays in early detection and proper treatment’, says a five-year survey involving 1,755 Indian participants.Tuesday
6 October '09Forty-five-year-old Jyoti Ankush Pardeshi of Hadapsar, who died on Monday due to swine flu...Saturday
3 October '09A year since the revised smoke free rules came into effect on October 2 last year, the Food and Drug Administration has been able to collect a mere Rs 8,000 as fine from the offenders.Friday
2 October '09On the eve of Anti Leprosy Day on Friday, health officials have pointed out that there is a false sense of security among the people that leprosy had been eliminated.Friday
2 October '09For Avneet Kaur, storing her baby’s cord blood after delivery was mandatory as both she and her husband have beta thalassaemia traits.Wednesday
30 September '09Even as swine flu has been taking its toll on the city in the last two months, two strains of the dengue virus have also been on the prowl, say city-based doctors.
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