The panel of doctors examining Budhia Singh has suggested that he goes ‘slow’ and should not be allowed to run - at least for sometime. A warrant-cum-authorization letter from the Khurd...
In an attempt to assess and ensure health of children worldwide, a battery of standardized measurement tests to monitor children's growth, motor development and nutritional status has been r...
Jan 2006, India: A 7-day old baby was charred to death due to a short circuit in a neonatal unit in Niloufer Hospital, robbing parents of their joy and hopes. The incubator in which the baby...
Tuberculosis remains one of the public health challenges of the 21st century in developing countries. Although most Americans feel that TB is a disease of the past, TB claims a valuable huma...
The world population, which now stands at 6.5 billion and will touch the seven billion mark on Oct 18, 2012, at 4:36 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, reported the science portal Live Science. ...
The publication of death rates of patients, specific for every surgeon in Scotland has led to mixed reactions from members of the medical community. A majority of the surgeons feel that th...
What has been known to us all is now proven by research. Apparently genuine laughter is the best medicine according to a report published in current Quarterly Review of Biology. "Goo...
New Delhi: Christianity came to India much before it went to the west, perhaps a reason why India's 25 million Christians prefer to be catholic in faith , oriental in worship and Indian in ...
Globally $35 billion will be required for immunization in the next ten years to save an additional ten million lives. The money will go towards reaching more children with basic vacci...
It might not be the plague yet, but the bird or avian flu scare has acquired this nasty habit of sending a shiver down the spine. That birds have turned out to be man's greatest enemies in t...
A study in the UK calculated the lifetime cost of smoking about 15 cigarettes a day and the amount calculated comes to a staggering £91,832.43 or approx . US $150,000 or Rs. 6,000.000. This ...
You may expect your partner to inform you of his/her HIV status, but as far as law goes, you don't have a legal stand on this. Even horrifying is the fact that you have to rely on the qualit...
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the most common causes of sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the world. More than 100 different types of HPV exist, most of which are harmless. HPV ...
"As when the Sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams, or from behind the Moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. On half the nations, and with fe...
All influenza viruses of the type A, including those causing seasonal epidemics of human influenza, are genetically labile and well adapted to elude host defenses. The tendency of influenza ...
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