gulfnews.comHomeless Indian in Oman wants to end lifegulfnews.com“I am living in a farmhouse, suffering with hernia, kidney pain, and joint pains,” Rafiq wrote to the MRC which is based in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. He also wrote that h…
Women are prone to heart diseaseTimes of IndiaAlmost 71 percent of women in India sense early warnings of heart attacks with sudden weakness but misunderstand it as flu. Women with hypertension suffer 3.5 times more from coronary heart disease than wom…
Liow: Organ donor pledges up by 77.7 percent since 2010The Star OnlineLiow, while launching National Organ Donation Awareness Week in Insitute Jantung Negara (IJN) Sunday said that there are now 205,478 pledged organ donors in the country, 77.7 percent…
Daily News & AnalysisMumbai film festival: Choosing the lucky 13 filmsDaily News & AnalysisAfter a kidney transplant, a young stockbroker is faced with uncomfortable questions, like the source of his new kidney and the reality of trafficking human orga…
Govt, hospital launch organ donation driveThe Asian AgeAccording to the statistics, thousands of patients in India die for want of organ donors. Recent data states that 1.25 lakh Indians died in road accidents in 2011 — and only less than 20,000 dona…
Zee NewsIndian curry spice `curbs metastases`Zee NewsIn a previous study Bachmeier and her colleagues had demonstrated that the substance reduces statistically significantly the formation of lung metastases in an animal model of advanced breast cancer….
Chennai stem cell registry helps save many young livesTimes of IndiaSwabs from the volunteer's cheeks are collected and sent to a New York based laboratory, Histogenetics , for HLA typing – a series of tests that are required before the donation to…
Perplexed over ruling on blood donationThe Star OnlineAMONG the Health Ministry's guidelines for blood donors, there is a peculiar category of blood donors who are expressly forbidden from doing so. The clause states that anyone who has lived for a…
Economic TimesPopular war on corruption ignites IndiaThe IndependentOf course, Mr Vadra is not like any other "private" Indian citizen. Since the brass handicrafts dealer from Uttar Pradesh married Ms Gandhi in 1997 – an unlikely pairing, m…
Hindustan Times (blog)UK has a change of heart, hits 'Like' button for ModiTimes of IndiaThe termination of a one-decade-long no-contact policy with the chief minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, by the British government is a pragmatic decision…