Thursday, 23 May 2013

Narendra Modi inaugurates the country's first yoga university in Gujarat

Narendra Modi inaugurates the country

Narendra Modi inaugurates the country's first yoga university in Gujarat

Ahmedabad: Narendra Modi's love for yoga is well known. He not only practices it every day, the Gujarat chief minister is also famous for making his bureaucrats attend special yoga sessions with him. Now, he has inaugurated what is being touted as the ...
Which is the right jab for you

Which is the right jab for you

There are vaccines for diarrhoea, cervical cancer and the flu. But which one is for you? Read on. Last week, the Indian government's Department of Biotechnology (DBT) announced that it had developed a new low-cost vaccine to battle the diarrhoea-causing ...
Bandra acid attack victim

Bandra acid attack victim's condition worsens: Doctors

MUMBAI: The condition of the Bandra acid attack victim has deteriorated and her lungs are failing, doctors attending to her said on Wednesday. She is in critical condition and has been put on ventilator, they said. The doctors from Bombay Hospital at Marine ...
Live in a high rise to live long

Live in a high rise to live long

Scientists have claimed that higher the floor a person lives on, the greater will be their life expectancy. According to researchers at the University of Bern, Switzerland, the chances of dying from serious lung disease was 40 per cent more among residents who ...
Roona Begum hydrocephalus update: Baby undergoes skull remodelling surgery

Roona Begum hydrocephalus update: Baby undergoes skull remodelling surgery

Baby Roona Begum, the 18-month-old girl who was suffering from a severe case of hydrocephalus, underwent a successful remodelling surgery of her skull at Fortis Memorial Research Institute on Tuesday. The girl from Tripura was suffering from a rare ...
CPR training conducted for BEST drivers and conductors

CPR training conducted for BEST drivers and conductors

MUMBAI: On the occasion of World Hypertension Day; Fortis Hospital, Mulund conducted a learning session for BEST drivers & conductors. Physiotherapy exercises to reduce stress, CPR training for more than 100 drivers & conductors participated in the 1 ...
Navajo Confront an Increase in New HIV Infections

Navajo Confront an Increase in New HIV Infections

GALLUP, N.M. — A surge in H.I.V. infections on the Navajo reservation here has doctors and public health workers increasingly alarmed that the virus that causes AIDS has resurfaced with renewed intensity in this impoverished region. National Twitter Logo.
Imphal doctors to restore smiles in Myanmar

Imphal doctors to restore smiles in Myanmar

IMPHAL: A 12-member team of the Imphal-based Shija Hospital and Research Institute (SHRI) left for Myanmar on Wednesday to render free treatment to nearly 150 cleft lips and palate patients. Under the ongoing 'Smile Train Shija Cleft Project', a joint ...
The spring

The spring's back in his step

The biggest upheaval in William Deng Kau's life happened two weeks before schedule. As internal affairs minister in Sudan, and a South Sudanese himself, Mr. Kau was counting the days to the independence of South Sudan. And then, just two weeks before ...
India & UK signed MOU on Cooperation in Health Sector

India & UK signed MOU on Cooperation in Health Sector

Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare India Ghulam Nabi Azad and Secretary of State for Health, UK, Mr. Jeremy Richard Hunt signed an MOU on cooperation in the field of health sector last evening at Geneva between the Government of India and the ...