Times of IndiaTollywood heroines ditch glamour for charityTimes of IndiaGone are the days when mana heroes and their respective fan clubs were the only ones supporting social initiatives like blood and organ donations,helping the needy etc. Today, the …
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Heart treatment: Hamidia costlier than private hospitals
Times of India BHOPAL: A general perception that healthcare cost is less in government hospitals has fallen flat at Hamidia Hospital. Going by government and patients’ spending, the hospital quotes up to Rs 1 lakh for cardiac procedure which are conducted for just … |
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Studying by heart or from the heart?
Times of India BANGALORE: With SSLC exams round the corner, an expert group has done an analysis of last year’s English exam paper. And their conclusions are none too flattering. They have found the current exam pattern followed by Karnataka Secondary Education … |
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Black Market For Organs Reportedly Alive And Well On Facebook
Huffington Post Respondents hailed from as far away as India and Mexico; one was a 22-year-old dad willing to give up his kidney for money so that he and his pregnant fiancée could return home to Hungary. A representative for the social network was not immediately … People Are Selling Their Organs on FacebookMotherboard Poor Britons offer to sell kidneys on Facebookdomain-B |
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Egg donor’s death: Husband moves court, seeks filing of FIR
Indian Express Over a month after the death of 26-year-old Yuma Sherpa following an egg donation procedure at New Life India Fertility Clinic in Lajpat Nagar, her husband approached a district court in Saket, seeking its intervention to get an FIR registered on his … |
Telegraph.co.ukPeople Are Selling Their Organs on FacebookMotherboardA reporter from the paper posed as the brother of a woman in need of a kidney transplant and put up an ad in a Facebook group set up to facilitate the buying and selling of human orga…
City joins world record attemptSun.StarThe attempt aims to dislodge the record held by India set last year. … However, breaking the record is not the main goal of the activity but the event serves as a public awareness campaign to allay misconception…
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No Smoking Day: 5 million people worldwide die every year due to smoking
India.Com Health According to Neeraj Gupta, senior consultant, (Pulmonology) at Gurgaon’s Paras Hospital, tobacco causes many preventable diseases in various forms including strokes and myocardial infarction, as also lung, mouth and tongue cancer. ‘The most common … Tobacco primary cause of preventable deaths (March 11 is No Smoking Day)Newstrack India |
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Healthy cells may be harbingers of lung cancer: Study
Daily News & Analysis Seemingly healthy cells may, in fact, hide clues that lung cancer would later develop, an alarming study shows. The researchers examined gene expression in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).It showed the area adjacent to tumours is rich … |
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Healthy cells may be harbingers of lung cancer
Times of India In addition, researchers from University of Texas’ MD Anderson Cancer Centre discovered the previously unknown role of a cancer-promoting gene in the airways of smokers with lung cancer. “These cancer-associated changes that distinguish the airways of … Healthy cells may hold clue to explain why some people get lung cancerIndia.Com Health |