Health ministry plans plain packaging of tobacco productsNewstrack IndiaThe Global Adult Tobacco Survey says India has nearly 274.9 million tobacco users, the third-largest in the world. Tobacco kills nearly one million people every year due to tobacco…
BBC NewsThe myth of the physically unfit IndianBBC NewsWell, doctors will tell you that with the country riding a diabetes and heart disease epidemic, most Indians are physically unfit. As the middle class swells, more Indians are leading desk-bound se…
AFPExemplary life: Capt Lakshmi Sehgal met patients till the endThe HinduA frail Capt Lakshmi Sehgal, who had led the women's wing of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's Indian National Army, met patients at her Kanpur clinic a day before she suffere…
NHS Lothian has been slammed after a blundering surgeon removed a patient’s appendix without recording it – a mistake that was only discovered eight years later after the patient was wrongly diagnosed with appendicitis.
A jellyfish could save us from heart attacksIndian ExpressScientists have created an artificial jellyfish which they claim can be used to develop a new generation of 'biological' pacemakers which do not need electrical signals. Researchers at t…
Car pollution puts kids at risk of asthmaTimes of IndiaIndiatimes|The Times of India|The Economic Times|. More. More …. A study of 2860 primary school children representing most states in Australia revealed that nitrogen dioxide (NO2), found in motor…
Edakkattuvayil panchayat could perhaps begin a mass movement for organ donation — both live and cadaver. Considering the people’s eagerness in making their contribution for 17-year old Swathi Kris…
Sai Baba Sends Tanzanian Heart Patients to India for Better FutureAllAfrica.comThree organizations in the country, with a foreign oriental partner are reassuring unfortunate Tanzanians of a happier future by restoring their defective hearts and sights….
NDTVSlums to royalty: Oprah Winfrey showcases shades of IndiaNDTVFrom heart wrenching poverty to majestic heritage as well as the glitz, glamour and royalty, international talk show queen Oprah Winfrey has offered viewers a glimpse of different layers …
High inflation, low growth: Is India stagflating?Economic TimesAs we have been arguing in this column, policymakers' decision to continue the bad mix of growth — as characterised by high fiscal deficit supporting consumption and continued decline…