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.

On a starry starry night

Monday 2 February '09

A documentary on Galileo Galilei, titled A Renaissance Scientist also features Birbal, Tansen, the Kalchakra and Mumbai’s local trains.

Private hospitals ready to house HIV testing centres

Friday 30 January '09

More than 10 private hospitals in the city have come forward to participate in a government scheme of Integrated Counselling and Testing Centres for HIV testing at private medical institutions.

City-based burns centre to set up skin banks

Wednesday 14 January '09

A city-based skin bank is all set to sign a memorandum of association with the largest skin bank in the world.

Witnesses identify slain terrorists

Thursday 8 January '09

A month-and-a-half after 26/11, the bodies of the nine terrorists were shown to 10 to 15 witnesses for identification at the JJ Hospital morgue.

Witnesses called to identify bodies of slain terrorists

Thursday 8 January '09

Almost a month and a half after the terror attack, the bodies of nine terrorists were shown to about 15 people here during an identification exercise...

Civic-run hospitals to get tutors once again

Friday 2 January '09

Owing to shortage of lecturers in three major civic-run teaching hospitals in the city, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) medical education department will soon re-introduce the post of a tutor.

New health mission for urban poor set to roll out

Thursday 1 January '09

The new year promises to bring good health to the residents of the city with a health mission scheduled to roll out by the end of January or early February.

Two bodies from terror attacks still unclaimed

Wednesday 24 December '08

Almost a month after terrorists attacked Mumbai, there are two unidentified bodies of victims of the carnage still waiting to be claimed...

Survived the attack, now back to book same rooms

Monday 22 December '08

NRI investment advisor Praful Patel feels number 1017 saved him. He was at Taj heritage wing when the terrorists struck. And on Sunday...

Ailing hospitals, flailing officers led to a big mess

Sunday 21 December '08

“Hello, I am your surgeon. You will be fine but you will have to wait for some time as we don’t have an anesthetist”...

Now, hospitals seek protection

Saturday 20 December '08

Taking no chances after two hospitals were attacked along with other targets on 26/11...

Now, medical tourism takes a hit

Thursday 18 December '08

Since 26/11, the country’s growing medical tourism industry is facing a setback, as the financial capital, considered the most yielding, is seeing a lull.

Jab meri sunne ki baari aayi to Papa nahin bol rahe

Wednesday 10 December '08

It was about two months ago that 16-year-old Gudiya heard her father’s voice clearly for the first time in a decade.

In CST attack, tour guide loses her home, livelihood

Saturday 6 December '08

When two bullets hit Beata Maria Alphonso’s left foot on November 26, she lost her home, perhaps forever, and her job, at least for some time.

Behind brave faces: One took 8 bullets, another lost an eye

Friday 5 December '08

His left hand still in a cast and bandages all over his torso, this 26-year-old NSG commando hasn’t lost his determination.

Nurses’ presence of mind saved many lives at Cama Hospital

Thursday 4 December '08

A week after Mumbai’s worst-ever terror attack, doctors and nurses at the state-run Cama and Albless Hospital recollect the promptness that nurses and ward boys showed to save several lives.

Victims on the floor: The longest night these intern doctors ever saw

Thursday 4 December '08

Barely 10 days old at St George Hospital’s casualty ward, three interns were taken aback to see many patients lying in blood after the worst terror attack in the city.

Mumbai ‘laid back’ in kicking the butt

Tuesday 11 November '08

Over a month after the much hyped smoking ban was introduced in the country, the figures point out that Mumbai has lagged behind in imposing the ban. The officials could collect only a meagre amount of Rs 25,000 from 290 persons in the city.

‘He dragged me, tied me to pole... iron chain wound around my neck’

Saturday 8 November '08

Manoj Bhagat, the passenger injured in the shootout inside a BEST bus, remembers being hit by a bullet in the thigh but cannot say whether it came from Rahul Raj’s gun or from a police weapon.

Bihar-bound passengers stranded at CST due to protests in their state

Thursday 23 October '08

The Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) here was teeming with perplexed Bihar-bound passengers on Wednesday after their train Howrah Express was cancelled following some violent protests in Bihar...

Generations of Service

Monday 20 October '08

Had it not been for the Theosophical Order of Service, thousands of children worldwide would have never known their right to education.

Later this week, city to join global hand-scrubbing movement

Monday 13 October '08

A modest school somewhere in Mumbai’s outskirts is home to a roomful of children who rush out of their classroom to find somebody waiting to share their lunch dabbas — ‘Master Blaster’ Sachin Tendulkar...

Bachchan taken ill on birthday

Sunday 12 October '08

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, who turned 66 on Saturday, was rushed to Nanavati hospital in Vile Parle this morning after he complained of acute abdominal pain late on Friday night.