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Brainstorming to heal the world

Saturday 21 November '09

Adorned with motifs by Jagannath Panda — masterpieces purchased long before his work came with a hefty price tag — the work area is filled with music.
Excess sweating lands UK woman in city hospital, operated on

Tuesday 17 November '09

After years of suffering from a condition that led to excessive sweating, Jane Collins Doyle, 55, from England, decided that she had had enough.
When diabetes strikes early

Saturday 14 November '09

Diabetes has seen a three-fold rise among children, but lack of awareness among parents and teachers is common....
Rein in the sweet tooth

Saturday 14 November '09

Eating right is not as difficult as it is made out to be. It is not a compulsion either....
He lost his children in Samjhauta blasts, now can’t cash compensation cheque

Tuesday 10 November '09

Nearly three years have passed since Rana Shaukat Ali lost five of his six children in the Samjhauta Express blasts.
MCD’s dengue data unreliable, says Kiran Walia

Tuesday 10 November '09

At the fag end of dengue season in the city, the health authorities have realised that the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has been furnishing ‘unreliable data’ regarding the extent of the outbreak.
Experts meet to fine-tune insurance for the deprived

Thursday 5 November '09

The Capital’s urban poor will soon be able to afford healthcare up to Rs 1.5 lakh without paying a paisa. Set up as a registered society...
Private hospitals told to update bed vacancy status on Internet

Tuesday 3 November '09

The state government has decided to use the power of Internet to rein in private hospitals that are denying free treatment to patients from Economic Weaker Section of the society.
Govt may rope in private hands for neonatal care

Monday 2 November '09

After high-end diagnostics and dialysis machines, the state government is on its way to privatise healthcare for newborns to improve the Capital’s abysmal infant mortality rate.
‘We realised she’d been sprayed with bullets’

Saturday 31 October '09

When the pager went off that Wednesday morning, Dr I K Dhawan — then surgeon in-charge at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences...
Intervening in brain stroke: the earlier the better

Saturday 31 October '09

For two days Pawan Kumar, a 41-year-old businessman, kept having recurrent dizziness during which he lost control over his limbs and tongue for brief intervals.
AIIMS to go global with new face

Wednesday 28 October '09

The nation’s premier medical body — the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will soon have an International face — a self-financing, non-profit affiliate which will “draw upon the intellectual and professional strengths of AIIMS for its global mission”.
Woman falls in hospital shaft, pulled out 24 hours later

Saturday 24 October '09

After falling into a hospital duct, Som Devi (23) had to wait for 24 hours before she was rescued by the staff of Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital.
Light up your life, keep off the heat

Saturday 17 October '09

Burns, respiratory problems, ear-splitting noise... Diwali has its dark side too....
On Carla Bruni’s new website, you will find a link to Guntur

Friday 9 October '09

Featured on www.carlabrunisarkozy.org, in an 8-minute photo essay, are stories of five families coping with the massive difficulties — and experiencing the small joys — of living with HIV in Guntur.
Forensic tests on Shopian bodies point to drowning theory

Friday 9 October '09

Tests conducted on the exhumed bodies of two Shopian women are said to be indicative of 'death by drowning'.
Lok Nayak readies for facelift ahead of Games

Friday 9 October '09

Lok Nayak Hospital is getting ready for an ‘intense beautification’ drive, with a new façade, a green zone and the road leading to the hospital free of garbage dumps, toilet complexes, vendors and rickshaw pullers.
Hospital chief, 2 others suspended on graft charges

Thursday 8 October '09

The state health department on Wednesday suspended Medical Superintendent of Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital Dr A K Gangotra, who has been booked on charges of swindling government funds to the tune of Rs 1 crore.
Dr Trehan’s Medicity ready for Diwali launch

Thursday 8 October '09

Eminent cardiologist Naresh Trehan’s super-specialty healthcare institute Medanta - The Medicity is ready for a Diwali launch and will be open to patients from October 19.
Soon, city’s govt hospitals to get German hand to cut wastage

Tuesday 6 October '09

If all goes as planned, state-run hospitals will soon be working in clockwork precision, German style.
Report: India has highest newborn mortality rate

Monday 5 October '09

With one-fifth of the world’s newborn deaths occurring in India, the so-called economic prosperity is rendered meaningless, says a new report by Save the Children....
NDTV gets notice for serial, says will fight it out

Saturday 3 October '09

Child rights activists may not think much of Rakhi Sawant’s maternal instincts, but Shilpa Budhiraja, mother of the 10-month-old baby Rakhi...
Osteoporosis makes a severe dent in India

Saturday 3 October '09

Qamar Khan could literally feel in her bones that all was not well when she left for a wedding party on a winter night.
‘Truth will emerge’ out of Shopian exhumation, says head doctor

Thursday 1 October '09

The Shopian double rape and murder case, caught in a swirl of questions and controversies, may soon see a “conclusive finding,” suggested T D Dogra...
Instrument purchase scam: homes of four DDU doctors raided

Wednesday 30 September '09

Investigating charges of corruption against doctors in state-run hospitals, the Anti Corruption Bureau raided houses of four senior doctors, including the Head of the Ophthalmic Department of Deen Dayal Updhyay (DDU) Hospital, Dr M C Agarwal.
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