 | The government is bringing out a national urban sanitation policy soon to bring about qualitative change in the sanitation and health situation in urban areas.
The government has given top priority to projects like water and sanitation, sewerage,... More |
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 | As the percentage of South Asians registered in the US National Marrow Donor Registry is small, patients from the region perforce join a long queue for matching donors.
Urmi and Girish are two of those waiting for a matching bone marrow... More |
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 | Hollywood's hottest couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt donated $100,000 of their money to help construct the first modern medical facility in Duk County, Sudan.
They made the donation to the Duk Lost Boys Clinic through the Jolie-Pitt... More |
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 | Long periods of bed rest could be harmful for pregnant women and may cause degeneration of their musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems, says a new study.
The musculoskeletal system gives human beings and animals the ability to physically... More |
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 | Staying active socially may help prevent Alzheimer's disease in the elderly, say US researchers.
Alzheimer's is a progressive brain disorder that gradually destroys a person's memory and ability to reason and make judgments.
David Bennett... More |
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 | Healthcare authorities in Assam Wednesday warned of an epidemic if parents do not get their children immunised against the fatal Japanese encephalitis, which claimed 119 lives in the state last year.
"Children are vulnerable to the disease and... More |
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 | The Apollo Gleneagles Hospital has opened their haemato-oncology (blood cancer) clinic in Kolkata to cope with the increasing number of cancer patients pouring in from different parts of eastern India.
This specialty unit, opened Tuesday, will... More |
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 | Eating junk food may increase chances of cancer in women, says a new study that, however, found no cancer link in men.
Scientists, led by Par Stattin, from Umea University Hospital in Sweden, studied around 65,000 adults for 13 years and... More |
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 | Canadian researchers have found a key protein to treat metastatic breast and ovarian cancers, making "smart" therapies possible for these diseases.
A protein called podocalyxin, which hides on the surface of tumour cells, may be an accurate... More |
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 | US researchers have found a possible new method of diagnosing breast cancer, simply using a saliva sample from patients.
According to research published in the latest issue of General Dentistry, researchers found that the protein levels in saliva... More |
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