The Hindu |
AIIMS MBBS students pledge their organs
The Hindu Organ donation in India has been seeing poor growth despite occurrence of over one lakh brain deaths in India every year. “We are trying to create awareness about organ donation by telling the common man that organs are harvested from brain-dead … |
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Traffickings chapters 13, 14, and 15
Books LIVE (blog) Others were poring over copies of The Chronicle, Bulawayo’s daily excuse for a newspaper, rabidly pro-ZANU-PF. As I turned left into Jason … They would have donated them to charities, which would have distributed them by the container load to … |
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‘Delhi Enjoys a Special Place in India’s Heart‘
The New Indian Express When I was growing up, Delhi extended as far as Lodhi Road, and beyond that were ‘the suburbs’. Today, the limits of the National Capital region of Delhi have spread greatly, and its reach embraces nearby cities in a vibrant hub of opportunity and … |
Salon |
How to be useful
Salon She had lung cancer and had moved to Las Vegas to be with her parents for her last days. My colleague wanted to visit her, but didn’t know … Whenever I visited India, I would go to her first thing in the morning. I remembered how when I was a child … |
Times of India |
Can’t compare Khan’s words with Shah’s: Mulayam
Times of India Similarly, all medicines would be free and treatment of patients suffering from cancer, lung, liver and heart diseases would also be borne by our government. We would even give interest free loans to farmers,” he said while appealing to the people to … |
No staple cureMumbai MirrorLast fortnight, Mumbai banker Gopal Agarwal moved the Maharashtra Medical Council against three leading doctors at Nova Surgery Specialty in Tardeo. His 56-year-old father, Puranchand, died last year following lung complicati…
Three little girls with cancer inspire thousands with their message of hopeMorungExpressThe cause is particular poignant for Ms Scantling, whose stepfather Larry is fighting off stage 4 lung cancer. Her close friend also lost her one-year-old to leukem…
Commission suggests improvements to cancer care in China, India and RussiaMedical News Today… cancer in Russia is double that in the US. Recently, Medical News Today reported on a study that blamed the abnormally high death rates in Russia – among me…
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Polio vaccine: The shots felt ’round the world
Chicago Sun-Times Or trapped in an iron lung. The sickness was poliomyelitis, polio for short; 1952 was the worst year ever: 57,000 cases in the United States. In one week in July, 11 of the 14 Thiel children of Mapleton, Iowa, got sick. That September, four of six … |
Wildlife and wine tasting in the Marlborough region of New ZealandHerald SunHis name is Banjo, I later learn, and he is an Alexandrian parrot from India. This meeting is one of many … I am surprised to see the pigs are not in cages, but Ken says this…