A rising number of swine flu deaths in Pune and a few positive cases in Mumbai are causing worried parents to flock to clinics and enquire about vaccinations for their children. According to doctors, parents are rushing to the hospital even if their child...
Washington, Mar 27 (ANI): People may one day be able to put "electronic skin" patches - as thin as a human hair - onto their arms to wirelessly diagnose health problems or deliver treatments, researchers say. A scientist has reported on the development of "electronic skin" that paves the way for...
Washington, March 27 (ANI): According to a new research, the negative health effects of early-life exposure to secondhand smoke appear to impact girls more than boys-particularly those with early-life allergic sensitisation. Epidemiologists from the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine...
New York TimesAssociated Press In Print: Tuesday, March 27, 2012For some people with diabetes, surgery may be the best medicine. Two studies have found that weight-loss operations worked much better than the standard therapies for Type 2 diabetes in obese and overweight people whose blood sugar...
Travelling in rural India always yields rich insights into how poor women struggle to provide that little extra, in terms of food, for the family meal. It was in the village of Vijaypura – in the drought prone Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh – that I came across Bharati, a...
Elderly patients with dementia are being illegally locked in their rooms and confined to their beds with high rails by staff who think such restraint is in their best interests, an official report warns today. Dementia patients are too ofetn being deprived of their liberty by care home staff without...
