New Delhi: With summers in full swing and the mercury heading north, doctors advise that apart from drinking lots of water, a special summer diet consisting of light and healthy food would ensure a cool mind and body. Ritika Samadar, chief dietician at Max Hospital, said fluids with electrolytes like coconut water and lemonade should be consumed and oily foods have to be avoided. "In summer, light food should be...
05:27:05 PM May 17, 2012
...And this is not a cliche anymore... Wolfing junk food like burgers, pizzas, pastas, fried chicken, and washing it down with can-loads of ...
12:16:56 PM May 15, 2012
Every component of sushi, from its seaweed wrap to the rice and fish inside, has strong nutritional value. ...
01:15:42 PM May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Pointing to a collusive nexus between drug manufacturers, officials of Drugs Control Organisation and medical experts in granting approvals to new drugs, a Parliamentary Panel said drugs banned, discarded or withdrawn in developed countries are in circulation in India. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare also pointed to serious lapses and irregularities on the approvals of new drugs and pointed out that 33 such drugs...
01:23:12 AM May 10, 2012
New Delhi: With cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis on the rise, the government has finally agreed to make this a notifiable disease. That means, every doctor will have to register each case. At least a thousand Indians die of tuberculosis every day. The biggest threat at this point is what experts call totally drug resistant TB, which is incurable, and highly contagious. Fifteen cases have been confirmed in Mumbai alone. But...
10:03:06 AM May 09, 2012
Washington: Low oxygen levels in cells, not genetic mutations, may fuel uncontrollable cancer growth, says a new discovery. If hypoxia, or low oxygen levels in cells, is proven to be a key driver of certain types of cancer, treatment plans for curing the malignant growth can change in significant ways, said Ying Xu, professor of bioinformatics and computational biology at Georgia University's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. The research...
05:31:48 PM May 06, 2012
Mumbai: After the Indian government recently lifted a patent license, Indian pharma major, Cipla, has announced a massive reduction of up to 76 per cent in its cancer drug prices. Following the move, the price of Cipla's generic kidney cancer drug, Sorafenib, will be available at Rs 6,840 a month from the earlier Rs 27,950. The lung cancer drug Gestinib price has been cut down by 60 per cent to...
07:51:31 AM May 05, 2012
Weight, inches, flab... these are words bound to be in a girl-to-girl conversation. I can hear them even now. "What's she doing? How did she ...
06:13:52 PM May 03, 2012
Mumbai: Four months after Mumbai's premier Hinduja hospital reported 12 cases of "Totally Drug Resistant TB", the hospital has reported 2 new cases. The bad news is that the state health department remains in denial. Nearly 1,000 Indians die of tuberculosis every day, and the biggest threat at this point is the Totally Drug Resistant TB - incurable, and highly contagious. A fifth of the total TB deaths in the...
02:03:28 PM Apr 30, 2012
Any guesses? Well... Recently, Shahrukh Khan got a summon from the Jaipur high court for smoking in public at an IPL match. ...
04:22:45 PM Apr 27, 2012
Small changes to our lifestyle and eating habits can make a huge difference to the waist line. ...
09:10:58 AM Apr 27, 2012
Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said the new Malaria drug is efficacius and safe as its a synthetic moelcue there will be no problem in production too. ...
10:04:27 AM Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: The Pulse polio program may be a success, but are experts focusing too much on vaccination? Perhaps even overdosing some children? Shortly after being vaccinated for polio, four-year-old Ansh developed paralysis. Doctors concluded it wasn't related to the vaccine or polio, which often causes paralysis. A few months on, Ansh is better now. But some doctors are sounding a warning note. In a study published in the Indian...
09:24:08 AM Apr 26, 2012
Mumbai: By the time you're done watching this report, somewhere in the world - a child would have succumbed to malaria. A public health disaster in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South East Asia, Malaria poses a threat to a 100 crore Indians, according to the latest World Malaria Report. About 1.5 million people suffer from malaria annually. A study published in the medical journal The Lancet, finds cases of...
10:14:10 AM Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: As many as 57 people have died, mostly in Maharashtra, of swine flu in the country till April 18 this year, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad agreed that swine flu or H1N1 has re-surfaced in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu. In Maharashtra, 20 people died of the virus from January to April 18 this year, he said. The...
06:02:25 AM Apr 25, 2012
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