17Mar/13

India's Second-Largest Drugmaker Mourns Death of Founder – Bloomberg

March 17, 2013Liveradmin

India’s Second-Largest Drugmaker Mourns Death of Founder
Bloomberg
Reddy, a billionaire, died of liver cancer at the Apollo Hospital in Hyderabad, the Indian Express reported, without saying where it got the information. “We deeply regret the demise of our beloved Founder- Chairman,” the company said in a black entry …
Anji Reddy | Unassuming elder statesman of India’s pharma industryLivemint
Dr Reddy’s founder K Anji Reddy dies at 72Indian Express
Dr. Reddy’s Lab’s founder chairman Anji Reddy passes awayIndia Today
VC Circle –Businessweek –Business Today
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17Mar/13

Finally, no objection to global kidney swap – Daily News & Analysis

March 17, 2013Organ Donor, Organs, Other Transplantationadmin

Finally, no objection to global kidney swap
Daily News & Analysis
DNA’s report ‘Unending wait for kidney, and life’ (March 14) said the country’s laws were posing a hurdle to India’s first international organ swap surgery. … Sabira can give Aarif her kidney, but in donating it to Esther, she can save two lives. In …

17Mar/13

Plan to Fight Deadly TB Strain Gains in India – Wall Street Journal (India)

March 17, 2013Lungadmin

Wall Street Journal (India)

Plan to Fight Deadly TB Strain Gains in India
Wall Street Journal (India)
Under the Indian government’s TB program, TB deaths have declined. But TB remains the leading cause of death by infectious disease in the country’s adults. The airborne disease, usually affecting the lungs and spread through coughing and sneezing, can …

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17Mar/13

Convicted Veerappan aide suffers mild heart attack – Times of India

March 17, 2013Heartadmin

Convicted Veerappan aide suffers mild heart attackTimes of IndiaBELGAUM: Simon, one of the four Veerappan aides facing death sentence in the Palar blast case, suffered a mild heart attack on Hindalga jail premises on Sunday. Prison authorities rushed h…

17Mar/13

Liver kept alive outside body and fit for transplantation too – Times of India

March 17, 2013Liveradmin

Times of IndiaLiver kept alive outside body and fit for transplantation tooTimes of IndiaA donated human liver connected to the device is raised to body temperature and oxygenated red blood cells are circulated through its capillaries. Once on the mach…

17Mar/13

Study on chronic diseases at Carambolim – Times of India

March 17, 2013Lungadmin

Study on chronic diseases at CarambolimTimes of India… to determine the impact of chronic diseases (CD). The chronic diseases risk factor (CDRF) project, a joint venture of Sangath, South Asia network for chronic disease, the public health foundation…

17Mar/13

Maharashtra: 300 hospitals want to start retrieving organs of brain dead – Hindustan Times

March 17, 2013Organ Donor, Organs, Other Transplantationadmin

Maharashtra: 300 hospitals want to start retrieving organs of brain dead
Hindustan Times
“Becoming a retrieval centre is not a lucrative idea. After relatives consent for donation, the hospital cannot charge them and have to bear the cost of maintaining the brain dead patient and retrieving organs, “said the official adding that retrieval …

17Mar/13

Gut feeling: germ warfare opens a new front – The Canberra Times

March 17, 2013Lungadmin

The Canberra TimesGut feeling: germ warfare opens a new frontThe Canberra TimesAfter reading studies suggesting that a high-fibre diet produces a type of bacteria in the gut that is associated with reversal of lung disease in mice, he put himself on a …

17Mar/13

2-pronged approach could lead to universal shot against flu – Newstrack India

March 17, 2013Lungadmin

2-pronged approach could lead to universal shot against fluNewstrack IndiaThis synergistic improvement in protective immunity is dependent, at least in part, on other immune cells-lung macrophages and phagocytes. An implication of this work is that imm…

17Mar/13

Vitamin D deficiency may lead to cancer in smokers – Zee News

March 17, 2013Lungadmin

Zee NewsVitamin D deficiency may lead to cancer in smokersZee NewsCigarette smoking is the primary causal factor for at least 30 percent of all cancer deaths, and can lead to multiple kinds of cancer, including bladder, cervical, esophageal, head and n…

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