Monday 10 August '09
Screening and isolation facilities for suspected swine flu cases will be extended to some private hospitals.Monday 10 August '09
A day after Femida Panwala (33) became the first victim of the H1N1 virus in Mumbai, the civic administration said she had contracted the virus....Sunday
9 August '09A 33-year-old housewife from Mumbai died today after contracting the H1N1 virus, becoming the second victim of swine flu in the country...Saturday
8 August '09Lying in his bed at the quarantine ward of Kasturba Hospital, Rahul has only one tool to fight his loneliness, his mobilephone through which he keeps in touch with his friends and family.Saturday
8 August '09A critically ill patient, put on a ventilator, tested positive for swine flu on Friday...Friday
7 August '09An it professional, down with a bad cold, left her office at Vikhroli on Thursday and rushed to Kasturba Hospital to get herself tested for swine flu, only to find the screening centre shut.Thursday
6 August '09The proposed metro blood bank project at the civic-run Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital (LTMG) in Sion has not taken off yet as funds from the Centre have not reached the civic authorities.Wednesday
5 August '09A day after Pune registered the first swine flu death in the country, there was panic in the air as people queued up for check ups....Wednesday
5 August '09A day after the country’s first H1N1 death was reported in Pune...Tuesday
4 August '09Within four months of its inauguration, the blood-component separator at the state’s biggest blood bank in JJ Hospital...Saturday
1 August '09The government on Friday issued guidelines on when schools with swine flu cases should shut entirely and when they should shut only a class or a division.Saturday
25 July '09Mumbai's Haffkine Institute has turned a swine flu detection centre, in a move aimed at easing the pressure on Pune’s National Institute of Virology.Tuesday
21 July '09Whatever you didn’t know about H1N1 influenza is just a video lesson away. Health experts have put together a short film on the new disease, knowledge about which is still hazy but which has still reached pandemic proportions.Sunday
19 July '09With three more students of Pune-based school testing positive for A H1N1 influenza on Saturday...Sunday
19 July '09Dozens of people living with HIV across the state have sought the National AIDS Control Organisation to retain the treatment and counselling centres attached to the five anti retroviral therapy centres.Sunday
12 July '09Medical services in civic and government hospitals, particularly in the city...Saturday
11 July '09Papa hospital la aahe, tyanna lagla aahe... jevha te chalayila lagnar aami ghari geun janar (Papa is in hospital, he has been hurt... We will take him home when he begins to walk).”Friday
10 July '09I am a gay but that is not the proper description of me,” says an activist in Breaking Free, a 90-minute documentary film in the making.Sunday
5 July '09Even as National Aids Control Organisation in Delhi welcomes Delhi’s High Court ruling that decriminalises homosexuality, Maharashtra AIDS activists and experts are waiting for a similar ruling of their own.Wednesday
1 July '09In two months, the National Aids Control Society will roll out its alternative first-line Anti Retroviral Therapy...Sunday
28 June '09Pictorial warnings have finally appeared on some cigarette, bidi and gutkha packs in Mumbai, though inconsistently and not exactly in the way the Union Health Ministry had wanted them.Tuesday
23 June '09The number of new HIV infections in the state has fallen over the years but that of AIDS-related deaths has risen, with most of the victims having got infected years ago.Tuesday
9 June '09An Air India passenger was quarantined at Mumbai airport late on Sunday evening for suspected swine flu infection, making him the 16th flier to be quarantined in the state.Monday
8 June '09Five months after the Mumbai District Aids Control Society invited proposals for standardising HIV testing facilities at public and private medical centres...Friday
5 June '09Manisha Chavhan is no average 28-year-old. For somebody who had to drop out of college because she had to take up a job...
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