Monthly Archives: December 2017
Intensified Mission Indradhanush: boats, vans at work in 191 districts
For three days now, vaccinators in vans, on foot and in some areas even in boats have been fanning out in 190 districts of...
Time Is Running Out For Your Flu Shot
Delhi for now is gasping for breath. While pollution is hogging headlines and mindspace, time may be running out for that flu shot in...
Sirenomelia: 14 cases of “mermaid” disease in India
The death of the "mermaid baby" in Kolkata was only the second known case of Sironomelia in India
In all the years when you fantasised...
Loneliness, unemployment can cause heart disease
Loneliness can affect your heart. So can unemployment
Researchers at the University College London have found. A UCL study, published in PLOS Medicine, analysed cohort...
Now, Haryana moves to cancel Fortis licence
State govt. is seeking to cancel the land lease of Fortis that got land on concession in return for keeping 20% beds free
One day...
Genexpert Ultra could revolutionise investigation modalities for Tubercular Meningitis, other Extrapulmonary TB
By Dr O P Choudhury
The advent of Xpert MTB / RIF, also called GeneXpert assay in 2004 and subsequent recommendation from WHO in 2010...
Surgeries don’t just save lives; they pollute, like refrigerators do
For all the years that pollution has been in the news, surgeries have rarely been associated with it. However as it turns out, not...
Rapeseed (canola) oil can affect brain, hasten Alzheimer’s Disease
Rapeseed oil, commonly used as a cooking medium in India can hasten memory impairments associated with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), a study has found.Researchers at...
India is free of trachoma, leading cause of infective blindness
This infection of the eyes was the most important cause of blindness in India
India has eliminated trachoma, a chronic infective disease of the eye...
Experts call for universal flu vaccine
It is always better to get vaccinated than not to get vaccinated
It is flu season once more and as numbers in the USA cause...
