 | Doctors in a Vietnamese hospital used light from their mobile phones to finish a surgery to deliver a baby after a power failure in the operating room, a doctor said Thursday.
The surgeons were at a crucial point in a caesarean-section operation... More |
|
| |
 | The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is analysing its HIV/AIDS policies to develop a five-year national strategy concerning the killer disease, Gulf News reported Thursday.
Officials from governmental agencies as well as international organisations,... More |
|
| |
 | The odds of firefighters dying from coronary heart disease within 24 hours of fighting a fire are 10 to 100 times higher than during non-emergency duties such as rescuing a cat from a tree, says a US study.
Stefanos Kales of Harvard Medical... More |
|
| |
 | Doctor-filmmaker Jorge Guillermo Caravotta, whose AIDS documentary "Second Life" was released recently, says people are dying more from the stigma attached to the disease than the disease itself.
India has 5.1 million HIV positive people,... More |
|
| |
 | India's leading university Jamia Milia Islamia will have an ultra-modern hospital in the campus with financial aid from Saudi Arabia.
The university and the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia Tuesday signed an agreement to set up the King Abdullah... More |
|
| |
 | Shimla civic authorities finally took on the task of cleaning its dirty storage tanks after nearly a decade with over 1,000 people hit by jaundice over the past few weeks.
Large amounts of silt and pebbles were removed by municipal corporation... More |
|
| |
 | US scientists have developed genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes, which they say could help fight malaria that kill a million people worldwide each year.
The GM mosquitoes developed by researcher Mauro Marrelli and his colleagues from Johns... More |
|
| |
 | At least six people lost an eye each allegedly due to medical neglect after cataract operations in Orissa. But officials said the patients were to blame because they had not taken adequate precautions.
The district administration had organised a... More |
|
| |
 | Following a report by the Delhi Diabetics Research Centre (DDRC) about the rising number of children falling prey to diabetes in the capital, the education department of the Delhi Government has proposed a ban on junk food in school canteens.
A... More |
|
| |
 | An expedition has revealed the first evidence of biological changes under the sea caused by the collapse of ice shelves in the Antarctic due to global warming.
German scientists searched 10,000 square km of seabed that were covered for millennia... More |
|
| |
