Organs of brain death boy save two livesTimes of IndiaMADURAI: The relentless campaign of the media and government on organ donation seems to show some effect as the parents of an engineering student, who was diagnosed as brain dead after a road accide…
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Big biodiversity in small city forest
Times of India Delhi’s city forests are not just lung spaces but have thriving biodiversity. The forest department has released a field guide to the biodiversity of Garhi Mandu city forest that has mapped more than 147 species of fauna and 65 species of flora in the … |
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80% liver cancer cases avoidable
Times of India NEW DELHI: Here’s a piece of information that can take the sting out of liver cancer — the third most frequent cause of cancer death in India. Health profiling of patients who reported to a tertiary care hospital in Delhi between 2000 and 2012 has … |
Joy as detained girl returns home after kidney transplantThe Standard Digital NewsHer mother had donated a kidney in 2005 but it later failed. They had to look for a family in a similar predicament and were lucky to find an Indian, but authorities woul…
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Patients turn India street into unofficial cancer ward
gulfnews.com Mumbai: With just a patchwork of colourful plastic sheets to shield patients from the heavy monsoon rains, a Mumbai street acts as an unofficial ward to one of India’s top cancer treatment centres. Every year, the Tata Memorial Hospital draws tens of … |
ANINEWSArsenic also causes lung damageZee NewsDoses of about 120 parts per billion of arsenic in well water-about 12 times the dose generally considered safe-produced lung damage comparable to decades of smoking tobacco. Smoking, especially by males, m…
Hit-and-run victim donates eyes before endZee NewsThiruvananthapuram: In a noble gesture, a 19-year-old youth, brought in a critical condition after being knocked down by a car, donated his eyes before breathing his last at the Medical College Hospital…
ANINEWSArsenic also causes lung damageNewstrack IndiaDoses of about 120 parts per billion of arsenic in well water-about 12 times the dose generally considered safe-produced lung damage comparable to decades of smoking tobacco. Smoking, especially by m…
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General hospital to get eye preservation equipment
The New Indian Express In order to promote the necessity of organ donation, which is one of the greatest deeds of kindness, the government will take steps to introduce the facility in other major government hospitals also” the minister said. He was speaking after launching … |
Blood cancer drug may also stop spread of breast cancer cellsZee News… Peter Storz, Ph.D., a biochemist and molecular biologist at Mayo Clinic in Florida, said that treatment with low doses of decitabine in an animal model of breast cancer restored P…