

Sunday 28 June '09
Pune scientists Dr Raghunath Mashelkar and Prof Bhushan Patwardhan hope their article will help create a positive environment for globalising ayurveda.Thursday 25 June '09
An anaesthesiologist, Dr Rita (name changed) tried painkillers on herself to just get a ‘high’. One injection led to another and soon she got addicted to it...Thursday
25 June '09A routine ‘aarti’ had turned fatal for 26-year-old Deepa (name changed) from Kothrud in May...Wednesday
24 June '09A routine ‘aarti’ had turned fatal for 26-year-old Deepa (name changed) from Kothrud in May, when she stumbled and fell upon the burning lamp.Tuesday
23 June '09The seven dispensaries under the Central Government Health Scheme in the city are getting fully computerized...Sunday
21 June '09Ever since the HIV virus was discovered in 1983, a lot of research has been done around its genome. In the face of emerging and re-emerging viral threats...Wednesday
17 June '09Researchers at B J Medical College are facing a challenging task of identifying HIV positive babies and children, in the age group of six months to three years, who have not received any treatment so far.Sunday
14 June '09Being cared for by specialists ensures better survival, a conclusion of several studies, and cancer surgeons in Pune are literally taking this maxim to heart.Saturday
13 June '09With WHO declaring the swine flu a pandemic, raising its alert to maximum level six, National Institute of Virology director Dr A C Mishra claimed the institute will be ready with a vaccine in less than six months.Wednesday
10 June '09A GlaxoSmithKline study rebuts claims that it's much criticised diabetes drug Avandia is linked to heart attacks.Wednesday
10 June '09The wastelands, called padik zameen in the local parlance, on the outskirts of Pune are just pieces of degraded lands that do not fulfil their life-sustaining potential for many.Tuesday
9 June '09Concern over 11 persons infected with the H1N1 virus (swine flu) in the country has led the National Institute of VirologySunday
7 June '09They call it the ‘dirty’ room. It is here, at the ‘clinical specimen handling’ section of the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune...Saturday
6 June '09The MSEDCL has around nine lakh consumers and the seemingly innocuous Rs 10-20 dues add up to a tidy amount each month.Thursday
4 June '09When 84-year-old Sumantai Behere learnt that she was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1997, it came as a shock but she faced it with great fortitude.Wednesday
3 June '09Tata Power's three hydroelectric power stations at Khopoli, Bhira and Bhivpuri supply India's financial capital with 450 MW of life-giving electricity.Tuesday
2 June '09Gall bladder cells can potentially produce insulin raising the possibility that a person’s own cells can be used in stem cell therapy for the disease....Tuesday
2 June '09With no advisory yet from the WHO on vaccinating people against swine flu...Saturday
30 May '09It's a malaise that shows no signs of abating. Gutkha-related cancers are a growing source of concern for city-based oncologists who say that head and neck cancer constitute at least 50 per cent of the 150 new cases every month.Thursday
28 May '09The Food and Drug Administration has collected Rs 2 lakh as fine, mainly from hotels and bars, for violating the ban on smoking in public places in the district from April last year to March this year.Thursday
28 May '09Power-starved southern states that paid through their nose to buy electricity at the Indian Energy Exchange...Saturday
23 May '09The Pune Zilla Parishad is targeting one lakh girls in the age group of 11-18 in its ambitious campaign for preventing anaemia.Tuesday
12 May '09Two men who had visited Spain and the US respectively have come under medical scrutiny in Pune, undergoing a battery of tests for the H1N1 virus on Monday at the Dr Naidu Infectious Diseases Hospital.Tuesday
12 May '09Two men, who visited Spain and the US recently, have come under medical scrutiny in Pune, undergoing a battery of tests for the H1N1 virus at the Dr Naidu....Saturday
9 May '09Pune has nearly 10,000 Tamiflu capsules in stock but they are not for distribution yet.