India WestNorthwestern Launches New Lung Transplant ProgramIndia WestNorthwestern Medicine in Chicago is launching a new program under the direction of two Indian American physicians that it hopes will address a shortage of lung transplant surgeries in…
Vancouver Desi |
Acclaimed Vancouver filmmaker Nimisha Mukerji can be out of touch, but she’s …
Vancouver Desi Whether she’s immersing herself in the daily struggles of someone suffering from a fatal disease, or literally falling off the map to set up a new life in India for the sake of filming, she pours years of her life into each documentary film project she … |
Hindu Business Line |
India’s leather exports to take a hiding
Hindu Business Line Cr (6) can cause lung cancer if inhaled, especially by workers in chromium mining, electroplating, welding and tanneries. In January 2012, Danish authorities submitted a dossier to the EC on reported cases of contact dermatitis and allergies caused by … |
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13-year-old boy in UK arrested for killing man
Business Standard He died from a stab wound that punctured his lung. The teenager, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was arrested last night. He has been remanded in custody to appear before Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court tomorrow, the BBC reported. |
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Roma ‘ultra’ charged over Cup final shootings
Times of India One of three Napoli fans wounded by shots is reported to be in an artificial coma as surgeons decide on how best to extract a bullet which has punctured a lung and lodged near his spinal cord. A fourth man, believed to be a fan of Roma, was also taken … |
AIIMS-Bhubaneswar to open air-conditioned private cabinsTimes of IndiaBesides indoor service, AIIMS runs a daycare facility for cancer patients and OPD services in paediatric surgery, oncology, neurosurgery, dental, ophthalmology, pulmonary medicine, m…
The Guardian |
Providence House: from mods to rappers, a haven for London’s ‘little rogues’
The Guardian One of them was 10-year-old Peaches, recently returned from East Shallowford Farm, a working farm in Devon, one of the first for urban children, bought as “a lung for the city” in 1976 as part of the Providence House enterprise. “I’d never been that … |
Daily Mail |
WWI: The Germans were terrified of the Daily Mail and Helena Bonham Carter’s …
Daily Mail Hollywood’s favourite Frenchman, Maurice Chevalier, was captured by the Germans in August 1914 after shrapnel pierced his chest and entered his lung. In his prison camp he learned English from an officer in the … The country remained neutral, but … |
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World’s biggest organ scanning project starts in UK
Times of India It will provide an unprecedented level of information to help scientists and doctors working on a wide range of illnesses, including dementia, heart disease, cancer, arthritis, depression and eye and lung disorders over very many years. DNA has been … |
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Fremont man recalls days of transporting dignitaries
Fremont Tribune Some were inside the large iron lung breathing machines. “Sometimes, they … The Youngs then went to Florida and as a flight engineer, he flew embassy runs, delivering mail and packages to Europe, Saudi Arabia, India and other places. Next, Young was … |