Times of India |
A malaria vaccine in 2 years
Times of India RTS,S triggers the immune system to defend against plasmodium falciparum, the malaria parasite carried by mosquitoes, when it first enters the human host’s bloodstream and when the parasite infects liver cells. It is designed to prevent the parasite … Malaria vaccine on the cards?India.Com Health |
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‘Defined Voices’: Giap, Wallace, and freedom
MorungExpress On the same day, the former black panther Herman Wallace, who had spent 41-years of his life in solitary confinement in Louisiana State Penitentiary, died from incurable liver cancer at the age of 71. Just a few days before his death, Judge Brian … |
Hindu Business Line |
A season of superfluities
Hindu Business Line This brings us back to first principles — using fiscal policy or quantitative restrictions to control demand patterns or preferences is a tricky thing in any society, particularly so in India where more than economic considerations work to influence … |
Malaria vaccine on the cards?India.Com HealthIt travels all through his blood stream to reach the liver. In the liver the parasite matures and multiplies. Some of the parasites stay there whereas the other parasites move out from the liver attacking re…
The Guardian |
Malaria: 660000 deaths a year – and one big breakthrough
The Guardian India, with 24 million cases a year, has the highest burden in south-east Asia. Malaria is caused by the bites of a mosquito – usually a female Anopheles mosquito – carrying the malaria parasite, which then makes its way through the blood stream to the … |
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Brand new ICU for babies awaits CM’s time
Times of India Babies develop jaundice due to increased red blood cells load and immaturity of liver and sterile intestine,” he added. Paediatric ventilator is an indispensable part of the NICU. “Lungs are not fully developed in premature babies which leads to … |
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Twitter triumph in tragedy
Calcutta Telegraph Knowing Rudra’s family would not have been able to pay for a liver transplant, which in India costs anywhere between Rs 10 lakh and Rs 25 lakh, his friends started a campaign on Facebook and Twitter. As word spread, former Jamshedpurean Meenakshi … |
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Six months on, UK Sikh family waits to cremate girl’s organs
Times of India … her death by doctors at the government Rajindra Hospital in Patiala had mentioned infection in her brain, while denying any allegations of misuse of the organs and claimed to have retained Gurkiren’s heart, lungs, brain and part of her liver at the … |
Times of India |
Six months on, UK Sikh family wait to cremate girl’s organs
Times of India Embalming is a procedure, usually done in India, to preserve decaying of a dead body, through arterial injection of fluids. It, however, can disrupt the post-mortem … The histopathology report into her death by doctors at the government Rajindra … British Sikh girl’s organs back in UK for testsHindustan Times |
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Justice JS Verma’s family alleges medical negligence led to his death
IBNLive New Delhi: Six months after his death, former Chief Justice of India JS Verma’s family has alleged that medical negligence killed the eminent jurist. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has now stepped in asking the Health Ministry to look into the case … |