Shackled by sanctions, Iran sends India SOS for life-saving drugsIndian ExpressIts healthcare system crippled by international economic sanctions, Iran has asked India for help to procure life-saving drugs for patients battling critical illnesses in th…
|
India’s Gang Rape Problem
Huffington Post (blog) Every Indian and every person around the world must speak strongly and not tolerate violence against women. Because the end to a Sunday night movie with a friend shouldn’t be having an iron rod inserted into your body, lung and brain damage, removal of … |
 Times of India |
Venezuela’s Chavez fighting severe lung infection
Times of India CARACAS, Venezuela: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is being treated for “respiratory deficiency” after complications from a severe lung infection, his government said Thursday. The statement pointed to a deepening crisis for the ailing 58-year-old … Hugo Chavez fighting ‘severe lung infection’Zee News Chavez Suffering From ‘Breathing Deficiency’KL.FM 96.7 |
|
Hugo Chavez fighting ‘severe lung infection’
Zee News … from a severe lung infection, said the government on Thursday night. Providing the update on the ailing President’s condition, Information Minister Ernesto Villegas read from a statement saying that Chavez’s lung infection had led to “respiratory … |
|
Supreme Court slams HC order flouting Tobacco Act
Daily News & Analysis At least 10lakh people die in India due to tobacco consumption in its various forms and it is also responsible for 40% of non-communicable diseases, including cancers, cardiovascular diseases and lung disorders. But the Bombay High Court ignored these … |
 Daily News & Analysis |
Don’t fail this Mumbai green lung
Daily News & Analysis In July 1865, philanthrophist and educationist Jagannath Shankerseth made a rousing appeal at a meeting of the Agri-Horticultural Society of Western India to save the city’s largest botanical garden. “The Victoria Museum and Gardens is emphatically the … |
BRIDGEWATER — A woman suffering from cystic fibrosis says she has a new lease on life following a double lung transplant. Jessica Carver of New Germany says the genetic disorder had taken a toll on her lungs, pancreas and liver.
 The Hindu |
‘There is a need for statisticians to work closely with scientists’
The Hindu In the case of Dr. Chatterjee, besides medicine and mathematics, he has a firm grounding in statistics too, and this helped him become the first Indian to win the prestigious COPSS President Award in August 2011. The award is given to young … |
|
Don’t fail this green lung
Daily News & Analysis The 150-year-old Veermata Jeejabai Bhosale Udyan in Byculla is struggling to retain its original identity, thanks to an apathetic municipal corporation. Spread over 53 acres and housing 3,213 trees, the botanical garden continues to be dwarfed by the zoo. |
|
IISc discovery brings hope in cancer front
Times of India BANGALORE: Biologists from Bangalore’s flagship Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have discovered a new molecular inhibitor that could lead to a major breakthrough in the development of new generation of anti-cancer drugs. The molecular inhibitor … |