We simply love our 'chai' The Times Of India SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweetWe simply love our 'chai' (Thinkstock photos/Getty Images) | Even as talks are on to make tea as India's national drink, the humble 'chai' has come a long way | There have been talks to make tea as India's National Drink. Tea for years holds a special place in Indian househ...
Infants' death sparks protest in Kashmir Newstrack India | Srinagar, May 17 (ANI): Locals in Jammu and Kashmir protested here on Thursday against increasing crib deaths due to negligence of the hospital authorities. | Reportedly, over 300 infants have died in the past five months in Srinagar, owing to medical negligence. | The state government has ordered...
Northeast Echoes The Telegraph India 'At CMC Vellore, doctors do not serve to accumulate wealth. They see their vocation as a social service' | When doctors turn mercenaries | In Assam, health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma cracked the whip on errant doctors who spent more time in private...
Food cos Pepsi, GSK Consumer Healthcare, Marico and others plan to revive healthy snacks The Times Of India Tweet KOLKATA/BANGALORE: Two months ago, when Britannia Industries launched baked 50-50 Snackuits, its executives were slightly anxious after having witnessed a bunch of failed attempts in the healthy snacking category including Parle Products' Monac...
Mega study to track cancer around n-plants Indian Express | Mumbai's Tata Memorial Centre has begun work to set up a community-based cancer registry and carry out health surveys to document the precise occurrence of cancer, birth defects and other illnesses around India's atomic power plants. | The move to ...
Sperm donation fad, thanks to Bollywood The Times Of India SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet NEW DELHI: Until five years ago, sperm donation was almost unheard of. But all of a sudden, it has become fad, thanks to a handful of recent Bollywood movies. Doctors and those running sperm banks say there has been a treme...
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70% kidney donors in Ahmedabad are mothers DNA India | "You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's," said Robert Frost. The American poet's statement - a telling comment on the unconditional love ...
Rhino reports are in, test negative for anthrax infection Indian Express | The anthrax scare reported from the Delhi zoo after the death of a rhinoceros abated on Thursday as test reports cleared doubts over anthrax infection as the cause of death. | Th...
Pistachios help growth of beneficial gut bugs The Siasat Daily Washington, May 09: | Eating pistachio nuts may help the growth of potentially beneficial gut bugs and promote digestive health, says a new study. | Pistachios are also an excellen...
Protect skin with sunscreen, but use lightly Newstrack India | New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) It's good to apply sunscreen before you step out of home in the scorching sun. But don't use it too frequently or in large dabs, say experts after a recent research indicated that sunscreen use can increase the risk of skin...
Doctor, no The Times Of India SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweetNEEDS HELP: 30 Chennai students under the CBI scanner for cheating in the 2006 medical entrance exams have all graduated;‘Dr Saleem’, a fake doctor(above), was not part of the group. Blame it on technology. In re...
Hygiene Hypothesis: Banishing germs from your life can make you seriously ill The Times Of India Tweet Immunologists rarely work in diabetes clinics, but a quirk of fate brought Vivekanandhan Aravindhan from the National Institute of Health (NIH) in the US to Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre in Chennai. To make himself useful, he decided ...
Pill that’s killing us Mumbai Mirror | Anand Holla and Divashri Sinha Tweet Rate me.... | Share Share Share Share | Posted On Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 02:47:34 AM | SR Ramachandran, a senior citizen from Mulund, woke up to a pool of blood from a boil on his heel. After a few days of self...
Cancer treatment: India vs abroad The Times Of India SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweetCancer treatment: India vs abroad Doctors say India is on par with international cancer hospitals. Why then, do people tend to go abroad for treatments? Debarati S Sen finds out... | Case 1: Cricketer Yuvraj Singh was in the...
