Monday 27 April '09
Following the spread of swine influenza in the United States, the Centre has swung into action. Experts at the Indian Council of Medical Research....Monday 27 April '09
While the Committee on Petitions has recommended that there should be no sex education in schools, states that had earlier banned the manual....Saturday
25 April '09According to a study published in The Lancet, Voglibose, a drug used to lower glucose levels in diabetics patients, can “delay or even prevent” the disease in at-risk individuals.Wednesday
22 April '09An estimated one million people die from suicide every year—1 death every 40 seconds— accounting for 1·5 per cent of all deaths....Friday
17 April '09With an idea to diagnose early HIV infection in women, children and TB infected people, the AIDS control organization is all set to expand its new testing technique.Wednesday
15 April '09Nearly two years after the National Commission of Protection of Child Rights was set up to look into issues related to children, it has proposed to educate child beggars.Saturday
11 April '09In a major breakthrough in the fight against cholera in India, a low-cost oral vaccine has given encouraging test results in Kolkata...Tuesday
7 April '09A group of Ministers is scheduled to meet on Wednesday to discuss the Union Health Ministry’s plan to introduce pictorial warnings on tobacco products.....Monday
6 April '09With Anbumani Ramadoss resigning from the Union Health Minister post recently, the plan to introduce pentavalent vaccines from April 1 is unlikely to take off.....Friday
3 April '09Stung by the ragging death in a Himachal medical college, the Medical Council of India has decided to incorporate its anti-ragging guidelines...Wednesday
1 April '09A combination pill of five drugs, trials of which were conducted on the “Indian population”, can help reduce incidence of cardiovascular events.....Saturday
21 March '09If your breakfast menu regularly includes eggs, you may be at an increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, a new research had revealed.Friday
20 March '09A three-member team of experts, sent by the Medical Council of India to look into the “ragging” and death of 19-year-old Aman Satya Khachroo...Wednesday
11 March '09Eight months after Dr P Venugopal retired from AIIMS, Dr Ramesh Chandra Deka, Head of the ENT Department, was appointed new director of the premier institute on Tuesday.Sunday
8 March '09Over 27 per cent of Indians smoke tobacco in one form or the other (beedi, cigarette, etc), says the third edition of Tobacco Atlas released online on Saturday.....Saturday
7 March '09Even as India has achieved some success in the areas of fertility and infant mortality, the maternal mortality ratio here still remains a cause for concern, a World Bank report has revealed.....Monday
2 March '09While recent reports of children going missing from Delhi may have gotten their share of attention in the national capital...Friday
20 February '09The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) has confirmed the prevalence of the Hepatitis ‘D’ virus in one of the cases in Modasa...Friday
20 February '09The National Institute of Communicable Diseases has confirmed the prevalence of the Hepatitis “D” virus in one of the cases in Modasa...Saturday
14 February '09Love for pets may motivate smokers to quit. This was what an unusual survey in the US has discovered.Tuesday
10 February '09There's some good news on health front. According to a study by USAID and CARE India, there has been an 8 per cent decline in malnutrition cases....Saturday
7 February '09A man with a height of 5 feet 9 inches, who weighs 75 kg, is considered normal weight as internationally.Tuesday
3 February '09Two days after five newly born infants were killed in an incubator fire at a Patiala hospital, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights...Thursday
29 January '09With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh making good progress after his heart surgery, doctors plan to discharge him over the weekend....Thursday
22 January '09Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss’s ambitious plan to introduce pictorial warnings on tobacco products is likely to be put off once again....
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