Smoking killed 100 million in 100 yearsIndian ExpressWhile Lal and Wilson are associated with the South-east Asia office of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Gupta is with the Healis-Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health, N…
Ditching nuclear power increases need for fossil fuelsCyprus MailOver two-thirds of them are being built in the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China), where economies are growing fast and governments are increasingly concerned about both pollution an…
FirstpostFormer PM IK Gujral stable but critical after lung infectionDaily News & AnalysisThe condition of former Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral, who is admitted to the Medicity Medanta Hospital here with a lung infection, is "stable but critic…
Smoking a cause of 100 million deaths in 100 years: StudyBusiness Standard… and Prakash C Gupta said in a study published in Current Science. While Lal and Wilson are associated with the South-east Asia office of the International Union Against Tuber…
Diabetes is a public health disasterSouth Asia MailDeveloping countries like China and India that are undergoing economic transition and are also high diabetes burden countries are likely to face the danger of getting their economic development of the …
Brazilian Olympic medallist Nelson Prudencio diesNewstrack IndiaRio de Janeiro, Nov 25 (IANS/EFE) Nelson Prudencio, who won two Olympic medals for Brazil in the triple jump, has died of complications from lung cancer, his doctors said. He was 68. Prude…
FirstpostFormer PM, IK Gujral admitted to Gurgaon hospital for lung infectionFirstpostBorn on 4 December 1919 in Jhelum (in pre-partition Punjab), Gujral was India's 12th Prime Minister from April 1997 to March 1998 and also only the second Prime M…
Madison Taliaferro, who was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at age 2, had the surgery on Nov. 5 at St. Louis Children's Hospital. She recently was discharged from the hospital but has to stay in St. Louis with her parents, Desiree and Mike Taliaferr…
OUT OF THE PAST: Remembering the epidemic of polioThe News HeraldThe sugar cubes with pink dots? Or the terrible sounding apparatus known as the “iron lung?” … He worked 10 years on developing an inoculation in which -24 little brown monkeys from…
12 year-old Madison Taliaferro of Topeka suffers from cystic fibrosis