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Emissions from coal plants causing high mortality, diseases
The Hindu Titled ‘Coal Kills — An Assessment of Death and Disease caused by India’s dirtiest energy source,’ by Urban Emissions.info and Greenpeace India, with support from Conservation Action Trust (CAT) by Sarath K. Guttikunda and Puja Jawahar, the study says … |
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‘Fatty liver in kids can cause cirrhosis’
Times of India This was stated in a symposium on “Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) in Children and Adolescents” organized by National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS), New Delhi, and PGI department of hepatology on Sunday at PGI. It was attended by … |
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No. of free drugs set to increase
Times of India The surfactant for intrarecheal instillation (natural bovine lung surfactant), will be made available free for infants. It reduces mortality among low birth weight and immature infants. RMSC officials said infants with low birth weight mostly die of … |
Man has 3rd kidney transplantTimes of IndiaNot many people knew about kidney transplant in India then. My father … Of the roughly 3,600 kidney and liver transplants conducted at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital to date, the number of female donors is 2,162, wh…
Cancer-ravaged organs being savedTimes of IndiaSo even though health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad recently said in the Rajya Sabha that India is set to see a steady rise in cancer cases, doctors are gifting almost normal organs back to their patients. The…
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‘Suicide is the biggest killer of young women’
Times of India Suicide is the biggest killer of women between 15-49 years of age in India. Maternal disorders related to child birth, which earlier used to top the killer list, have been pushed to the third place, going by the absolute number of deaths. The second … |
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Nelson Mandela leaves hospital after ‘routine’ medical tests
Times of India Mandela had been admitted Saturday for “a scheduled medical check-up to manage the existing conditions in line with his age”, less than three months after being treated for a lung infection and gallstones. News of his latest hospitalization sparked … Relief In South Africa As Mandela Leaves HospitalNPR Mandela back home after spending night in hospitalZee News Nelson Mandela discharged from hospitalNewstrack India indiatvnews.com –IANS all 132 news articles » |
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RP Patnaik – still a composer at heart
Yahoo! India News “I started my career as a music composer and, therefore, I can never stop being one at heart. I have stopped composing music for other films, but I still compose music for my own films,” Patnaik told IANS and added: “Since I’m busy being a director, I … |
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Generic drug wins appeal in India
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Last year, India’s patent office allowed local drug manufacturer Natco Pharma Ltd. to produce a generic version of Bayer’s kidney and liver cancer drug Nexavar on the grounds it would make the drug available to the public at a reasonably affordable price. |
All I Want Is Clean And Safe AirSouth Asia MailA guide book on -lung-health-consequences-of-exposure-to-smoke-from-domestic-use-of-solid-fuels- refers to another study from India which showed an increase of 22% to 30% in symptoms of asthma in nonsmokin…