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Man’s weight loss is wife’s gain: soon, a kidney
The New Indian Express The second won’t come until early next year when he’s able to donate one of his two healthy kidneys to his wife, Karina, who been undergoing three five-hour dialysis sessions a week since an organ donated by her sister began to fail. It was a big leap … |
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Authorities gear up to spread awareness against crackers
Times of India Inhaling smoke for long can have adverse impact on one’s health affecting kidney, lung system and respiratory system, he claimed. CMO said that a fresh strategy has been chalked out to apprise people in both, rural and urban areas, about the ill … |
death in the airCalcutta TelegraphThat a society and polity obsessed with spiritual and moral pollution should be so criminally indifferent to the mortal dangers of air pollution is a paradox that the Indian State and citizenry seem to have immured the…
Gandhi auctionCalcutta TelegraphHong Kong (PTI): An Indian-origin man in Hong Kong is unable to find a place to bury the ashes of his wife six months after her death, the South China Morning Post reported on Monday. Mariasusai Andrews wife Nirmala, 51,…
Queen of Heart Express in Mangalore to create awarenessTimes of IndiaMANGALORE: The Queen of Heart Express, a unique initiative that will connect cities across India through a bus cruise for the first time to spread awareness on heart diseases in women…
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Adulterated milk deadly for patients of diabetes, hypertension
Times of India “Think of patients with chronic kidney or liver ailments or those hypertensive. They live under strict salt rationing, and if they unknowingly consume salt through milk, it will do them great harm,” Chakraborty added. Saha agreed that doses of salt can … |
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The era of personalised medicine
Livemint Learning of one’s risk to disease is a useful application of gene testing, but scientists and doctors in India are more excited about the growing prospects of pharmacogenomics, which could usher in an era of personalized medicine in the future … |
Sci-Tech TodayWHO Agency: Air Pollution Causes Lung CancerSci-Tech TodayStraif said there were dramatic differences in air quality between cities around the world and that the most polluted metropolises were in China and India, where people frequently …
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Indian-origin man fails to find burial place for wife’s ashes
Times of India Mariasusai Andrews, an Indian Christian, couldn’t find a place for the burial of his late wife Nirmala’s ashes even after six months of her death. She died at the age of 51 after she developed lung cancer. The urn containing Nirmala’s ashes is still in … |
The New Indian ExpressThe Most Widespread Environmental Carcinogen? The Air We BreatheThe Atlantic CitiesSome 223,000 lung cancer deaths around the world in 2010 could be attributed to air pollution, according to the report. There is … IARC officials…