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City to get its fifth ART centre in western suburbs soon

Tuesday 2 June '09

The patients infected with HIV and having AIDS especially those from the western suburbs will finally get some help nearby.
Smoking ban: civic body figures on fines don’t tally

Sunday 31 May '09

Almost eight months after the implementation of smoking ban, officials from Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) Health Department recently announced that they had collected Rs 78,000...
Woman falls off train, injury turns rare disease that may leave her brain dead

Thursday 28 May '09

A 38-year-old woman who fell off a train last week thought she was lucky to have survived the accident despite suffering severe head and neck injuries.
Four hospitals, two surgeries... yet it’s far from over for this 26/11 victim

Tuesday 26 May '09

Until two days ago, 37-year-old Sabira Khan was the only victim of the terror attack still in hospital. But, her miseries are far from over.
Why is Kasab still alive, asks survivor

Tuesday 26 May '09

Why is Kasab still alive? Shabir Dalal, a 26/11 terror victim, resting on a bed in ward 13 of JJ Hospital, wants to know.
Terrorists’ bodies start to rot in hospital

Friday 22 May '09

With the Mumbai Police yet to take a decision on the bodies of the nine slain 26/11 terrorists, doctors are now worried about how long they will have to keep them in the morgue as they have already started showing signs of decomposing.
As jobs vanish, pregnancy plans hit slowdown

Monday 13 April '09

Last year, Gurdeep Mann (25) was earning nearly Rs 5,000 a month at a leading clubhouse in Mumbai.
In-laws crowd organ donor list

Saturday 11 April '09

Doctors overseeing organ transplants across the state have found a worrisome detail: a large number of kidney transplants in Maharashtra where the donor is not a relative of the patient involve donation of the organ by a wife’s parent or sibling.
Infant hangs between life and death, crowd gathers for a peek

Tuesday 7 April '09

Until Saturday, few in the shanty colony near Colaba Market knew Dhananjay Jaiswal and his wife. Now, people are flocking to their house to take a peek at their baby.
A desi scale for rating autism

Thursday 2 April '09

The Government of India will soon roll out an Indian Scale for Assessment of Autism (ISAA), commissioned by the National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped (NIMH). The Indian scale...
Jobs for Change

Monday 30 March '09

The story of a young boy who gained wisdom on Mumbai’s streets and went on to become a millionaire just by luck won global accolades.
TB patients losing hope, a major cause of concern for doctors

Friday 27 March '09

Sujata Shrunghare, a 30-year-old tuberculosis patient who was depressed because of her prolonged illness, committed suicide at the TB Hospital in Sewree on Tuesday.
Fear of infection keeps doctors away from this TB Hospital

Thursday 26 March '09

In the last two years, at least seven doctors working in the 1,000-bedded Sewree TB Hospital were infected with tuberculosis.
Cataract affecting younger people as well: specialists

Monday 23 March '09

Little did 30-year-old Vijay know that his rigorous exercise sessions would cost him his eyesight.
One in every 10 Indian children is sexually abused, says WHO

Sunday 22 March '09

When a Mira Road-based businessman allegedly raped his daughter over a period of nine years following a tantrik’s advice for getting rich...
The Doctor Is In

Sunday 15 March '09

Jalna district in Maharashtra had alarming infant and maternal mortality rates. But that was two years ago, before a sonography machine in two blocks of the district helped the villagers look within
Minister asks why hookah parlours still open, BMC vows to enforce ban

Tuesday 10 March '09

Eight months after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation banned hookah bars, the matter of enforcing them cropped up again on Monday, at the 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health.
Needed, law to ensure homely care for elderly

Monday 9 March '09

Kirit Mehta stopped eating over a week ago. The 82-year-old has become severely malnourished. His family members are unable to tackle the problem.
Lending a helping hand in war against tobacco through social marketing

Saturday 7 March '09

Years ago, 15-year-old Sasha Batnagar, a student of Delhi Public School, was annoyed by her pals when they smoked in the school toilet.
Portal in the offing after helpline for cardiac patients

Monday 2 March '09

In India, on an average one person dies of heart attack every three minutes. Symptom to door, door to needle and door to balloon time is crucial in the management of cardiac patients.
Cadaver transplants: poor show by govt hospitals

Sunday 22 February '09

Despite a positive trend in cadaver transplants this year with 13 organs already transplanted in the city-all in private hospitals, the government hospitals continue to fare badly.
Sion baby theft: accused was pregnant, recalls witness

Tuesday 17 February '09

“All of us admitted in the ward saw the woman who took away Nerulkar’s baby. She was casually roaming around in the ward. She first picked up some other baby girl but left her after the baby’s mother reached in time,” said Nalini Saluskar.
MTP Act: Apex court lifts Mehtas’ hopes

Sunday 15 February '09

I am glad that the Supreme Court has taken the matter seriously. This will help a lot of couples in future,” said Haresh Mehta, who along with wife Niketa and gynaecologist Nikhil Datar, had moved the Bombay High Court last year...
Sion missing baby case: parents narrate their version to committee

Tuesday 10 February '09

Parents of the baby who went missing from the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General hospital in Sion almost a month back were asked to give their version of the incident before the committee formed to look into the case, on Monday.
Doctors on a drive to map disease that kills mothers

Saturday 7 February '09

Eclampsia, the cause of around 15 per cent maternal mortality in the country, is being mapped, to be nipped in the bud.
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