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Waiting in the Q: Mumbai’s kids with serious heart ailments
Moneylife The Mumbai Municipal Corporation has to answer why the KEM hospital, despite being the premier hospital of India’s richest civic bodies, has just one out-dated heart lung machine. It has a budget larger than that of any smaller states of the Union of … |
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How WHO plans to eradicate pneumonia and diarrhoea by 2025
India.Com Health According to Dr Deepak Ugra, leading paediatrician and former head of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics, pneumonia is the biggest killer of Indian children. He says that Mumbai’s slum kids would be more susceptible to the disease because of the cramped … |
iDiva.comhealth benefits of beetrootiDiva.comApart from being a fantastic source of digestive fibre, tests have shown that beets might be able to fight cancers of the colon, stomach, lung, breast and prostate. The beet zone. In India, beetroots are nor…
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Revered U.S. Army chaplain Emil Kapaun receives Medal of Honor posthumously
Detroit Free Press Everyone knows the story of the modest farm kid who became an Army chaplain in 1944, served two years along the India-Burma border and returned to the military in 1948 for a second stint — dying at age 35 in captivity in Korea. Today, there’s a … |
Zee NewsSir Robert Edwards – The IVF pioneerZee News… has brought hope to those unable to conceive naturally. So far, over 5 million children have been born around the world through IVF. The IVF pioneer breathed his last on April 10, 2013 after a pro…
India.Com HealthCancer terms: Leukaemia to OncologyIndia.Com HealthLung cancer: Cigarette smoking is a major predisposing factor for lung cancer. Symptoms like persistent cough, pus or blood filled sputum, shortness of breath, chest pain, etc usually i…
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Army hospital saves lives
Times of India During the workshop, doctors also worked on how to stop bleeding from the lungs by blocking a particular blood vessel. Such a … Doctors also gathered knowledge on how best to treat a patient with lung problems who is on a ventilator,” Prasad said. |
The HinduKols in UP: A life without rightsThe HinduOver the years, a large number have contracted lung diseases like silicosis and tuberculosis. Some have lost limbs or sustained crippling injuries during the blasting of the rocks. Pannalal Kol, 60, wh…
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Compulsory licensing – where is India heading?
IAM (blog) (registration) … were initiated in 2007 by Natco against Pfizer’s drug Sutent (Sunitinib) (see “India to hear patentees’ view in compulsory license cases”), which was used to treat gastrointestinal stromal tumours and Roche’s Tarceva, used in lung cancer treatment. |
Forbes India (blog)The Complex Economics of Cancer CareForbes India (blog)When adjusted for income at current exchange rates, the money spent on cancer care is equivalent to 0.12 percent of the per capita gross national income in South America, 0.05 pe…