For knee, ayurveda found as good as high-end drugs

Tuesday 26 February '13

The drugs commonly used for knee osteoarthritis are the high-end glucosamine sulphate and celecoxib.

Pune ZP gets ASHAs back in action mode

Friday 22 February '13

They receive incentives for health interventions, and attend monthly meetings in PHCs.

Child cancer victims need a helping hand

Friday 22 February '13

Lancet researchers agree that specific needs of the children have perhaps been overlooked as they represent less than 2 per cent of the global cancer burden.

Health matters: Lecture on cartilage tympanoplasty

Wednesday 20 February '13

Dr Mubarak Khan, Associate Prof in ENT and consultant at Sushrut ENT Hospital, Talegaon Dabhade, has been invited to deliver a lecture on his techniques of cartilage tympanoplasty at International Oto...

Double Trouble

Wednesday 20 February '13

A study shows that pregnant mothers exposed to high levels of pollution risk having underweight babies.

Only 1 in 10 children with cancer get complete treatment in India: Report

Wednesday 20 February '13

At least 10-12 children per 10,000 population will develop cancer in India annually. Out of 60,000 children afflicted with this disease

The swine flu cycle

Wednesday 20 February '13

145 deaths in 6 weeks as H1N1 virus stays true to now-high, now-low pattern

State drive to enforce PCPNDT Act lauded

Friday 15 February '13

Maharashtra''s efforts to strictly implement the Pre Conception and Pre Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PC-PNDT) Act reportedly found appreciation in the Supreme Court on February 12 at the hearing of a ...

Sex ratio at birth sees a quantum leap

Friday 15 February '13

From 884 girls per 1,000 boys in 2011 to 934 girls per 1,000 boys in 2012; baffled activists cautious about calling it a welcome reversal yet.

Blast that shook up lives, reshaped careers

Wednesday 13 February '13

How Feb 13, 2010 turned an IAS aspirant towards social service

Kerala leads in non-communicable diseases: Study

Tuesday 12 February '13

A community-based study in Kerala has found that the state leads in non-communicable diseases (NCD) and its associated risk factors

The pathfinders

Sunday 10 February '13

An organisation in Ahmednagar has helped rehabilitate women and children who find themselves on the fringes of society

Swine flu deaths: Pune no longer in 'panic'' mode

Saturday 9 February '13

The health authorities have stated that the virus has now become endemic.

Child sex ratio improving in Ahmednagar district

Tuesday 5 February '13

With the district showing a positive trend in reversing the child sex ratio in the age group of 0-6 years from April to December 2012, health officials in Ahmednagar are now taking up the cause of sav...

NIV to zoom in on new, re-emerging viruses

Tuesday 5 February '13

Global expert on biosafety Dr D T Mourya takes over as institute director

Tejas survives after bone marrow transplant from mother

Tuesday 5 February '13

Barely a week after Tejas turned three on April 18 last year, he was diagnosed with blood cancer.

Faster, better TB test can spot drug-resistant cases too

Friday 1 February '13

Xpert, the quick test for tuberculosis already endorsed by WHO, has been found accurate for TB including drug-resistant strains, according to a new study publsihed in The Cochrane Library

In a first, first-aid training for 2,000 traffic aid personnel

Thursday 31 January '13

Increase in accidents on Mumbai-Pune expressway and highways prompted health department to start the initiative

Rise in high-velocity accidents, say doctors

Tuesday 29 January '13

At least 50 instant deaths in last 6 months due to head-on collisions

Honey: Handled with better care

Friday 25 January '13

Hives of the wild rock bee are no longer burnt by beekeepers in Melghat, who have learnt scientific techniques and are extracting enough to export

Buzzing from place to place

Friday 25 January '13

Encouraged by CBRTI director M T Wakode, Vivek, 28, applied for a credit-linked subsidy scheme under the Prime Minister''s Employment Generation Programme.

Mane not under any treatment, is 'mentally-fit'': Yerawada officials

Thursday 24 January '13

Yerawada Jail officials have categorically said Santosh Mane, the ST bus driver whose reckless driving killed nine persons, was mentally fit.

Mane mentally fit, not under treatment: Jail officials

Thursday 24 January '13

At the Regional Mental Hospital in Yerawada where Mane was initially sent for a 10-day observation, Superintendent Vilas Bhailume told The Indian Express that he was not sent back later to the hospita...

The fat get fatter, the thin stay thin

Thursday 24 January '13

Study finds lopsided pattern in developing countries where population has gained weight

Exhibition of medicinal plants

Wednesday 23 January '13

Vrukshayurveda 2013, an exhibition of medicinal plants with a lecture series, will be held from January 25-27 at Indradhanush hall near Mhatre bridge.