Archives September 2013

30 September 2013

• Health stalwarts from around the world plan a war against tobacco!
• National Awareness League: A cricket league to spread health awareness
• Tattoos are stylish but dangerous say skin doctors
• Being stressed can make the world around you stink!
• Walk for spreading cancer awareness
• Delhi Hospital organises walkathon for World Heart Day
• Jennifer Aniston drank sodas instead of water
• Eat flaxseeds to give your heart a helping hand!

29 September 2013

• Heart disease kills 17.3 million each year
• India-made anti-malaria drug banned in Ghana
• Past life regression therapy: How it's done
• Odisha hospital ceiling fan falls on patient
• Sonia to launch Kerala bio-centre's expansion programme

28 September 2013

• Dengue update: Three deaths in Delhi
• Can't find time to exercise? Stop texting
• Mobile phones, towers do not cause cancer says Delhi Medical Association
• Low treatment costs attract foreign heart patients to India
• Nature over gym: Why people are working out in parks instead
• Product launch: Ground Miles, an app for walking

27 September 2013

• Obama defends Obamacare
• UP to have three new medical colleges
• National Doctor’s Day 2013: Why I became a doctor
• Ranveer Singh suffering from dengue
• Chennai-based banker gets a $100,000 golf-ball sized pump to replace his heart
• Delhi dengue update: Ghulam Nabi Azad asks people to take preventive steps
• Delhi Dengue Update: Sheila Dikshit blames sharp rise in cases on BJP
• Give your leftover food a makeover!

26 September 2013

• Experience compensates declining learning ability in elderly
• Britain sees a decline in number of smokers, according to survey
• Product launch: Oriflame launches babycare range
• Product launch: Australian cosmetics company NATIO comes to India
• Dengue claims 2 lives, 900 victims in Delhi
• Anti-liquor campaign a success in Kerala
• Call to end attacks on health workers
• Odisha dengue update: Total toll rises to 4,321
• Delhi is the nation's heart disease capital as well!
• Dentists should go for laser dentistry: Rosaiah
• Now - a nano-medicine for blood cancer!
• Dilip Kumar doing better, shifted out of ICU
• Tamil Nadu government to offer nutritious nuggets to children
• Lack of sleep makes teenage boys fat!
• Women gives birth to 5 babies at once
• Beware - Facebook can cause short-term memory loss!
• KEM Hospital: The 'dirty picture'
• Anushka Sharma obsessed with moisturisers
• Revealed - why you feel so happy after watching a feel-good movie
• Nude, glossy nails in vogue
• Delhi dengue update: Over 1,300 cases this season
• Pranab Mukherjee wants government to spend more on healthcare
• AIIMS to get new director
• Emma Watson voted iconic British beauty
• Bond girl Jane Seymour poses in a bikini at 62!
• Children with drug-resistant tuberculosis has experts worried
• 8th annual Global Healthcare Summit 2014 to be held in Ahmedabad
• Drink green tea for a healthy heart
• India working on developing strips to test diabetes: Ghulam Nabi Azad
• 'India needs to strengthen doctor-patient communication'
• Medicon International 2013: Faculty from Royal College of Physicians unite in Kolkata
• Union cabinet approves plan on child nutrition in 200 districts
• Indian healthcare companies tap African market
• Massive cancer awareness program launched in Punjab
• Delhi Dengue Update: 2 health officials sacked after cases rise
• Britain to give $1.5 bn aid for AIDS, TB, Malaria
• Britney Spears struggling to give up food
• Obama says fear of his wife keeps him from smoking
• Jada Pinkett Smith proud of having battled many addictions
• Jennifer Aniston trying to conceive a baby!
• Over 100 students ill after consuming iron supplements
• Andy Murray undergoes successful back surgery
• Alternative to open-heart surgery performed
• Philips to install heart care device in metros
• Delhi dengue update: Corporation cancels leave of all its employees
• Lack of psychiatrists a concern: Ghulam Nabi Azad
• Need to shed stigma associated with leprosy: WHO
• Rise in hand, foot and mouth disease among children in Delhi
• Dengue claims 3 lives, 300 victims in Siliguri
• Lack of sanitation is India's biggest failure, says Jairam Ramesh
• Offer: 50% off on body sculpting and weight loss treatments at InstaSculpt
• Product launch: PUMA’s Signature A/W Collection
• Product launch: Natural haircare and skincare products by Richfeel
• Product launch: Nine Maternity Wear's trendy collection
• Dermatographia - woman turns body into 'skin writing' canvas
• Home remedies for whiter teeth – do they work?
• How to make a healthy sandwich
• Is our government capable of safeguarding patients' interests?
• What do we do with juvenile offenders?
• Ganesh Chaturthi Special: Healthy Modak recipe
• Ganesh Chaturthi Special: Date and sesame puranpoli
• Ganesh Chaturthi Special: Sundal recipe
• Ganesh Chaturthi Special: Baked moong dal karanji
• 9 superfoods for a super you!
• Ganesh Chaturthi special: Healthy modak recipes
• Common hydration myths busted
• Try Krav Maga, Capoeria and Kalaripayattu for fitness
• Healthy sesame recipe: Til jowar puri
• Product launch: Tipson Tea to launch first of its kind Soursop Green Tea in India
• Event: Max Bupa Walk for Health 2013 in Delhi and Mumbai
• Healthy coconut chutney recipe
• Protein-rich coconut and paneer puranpoli recipe
• Offer: Aesthetic hair transplant by Richfeel Hair Forever
• Are ingrown nails troubling you? Here's help!
• How Hrithik Roshan transformed his body
• Kris Gethin’s story: Learn more about the man who transformed Hrithik Roshan

25 September 2013

• Forget therapy, try acupuncture for depression!
• What inspired MS Dhoni's mohawk hairstyle?

23 September 2013

• More video games, less outdoor sports: Is this making young India unhealthy?
• What makes someone a psychopath

21 September 2013

• Five health workers in Bengal suspended after administering wrong vaccine
• Bihar midday meal tragedy: Pesticide trader detained in connection with the poisoning
• Will juvenile rapists and murderers be tried as adults?

20 September 2013

• How do I treat small dots of fat below my eyes? (Beauty query of the day)
• Common heart attack myths busted
• Andy Murray to have back surgery, set to miss rest of season
• I'm not violent, navy yard gunman Aaron Alexis told doctors a month before murders

19 September 2013

• Using fish to fight dengue
• Just 30 minutes workout to stay healthy
• Healthy recipe: Ragi and Jowar Kanjji
• Can the MX2 gene stop the HIV virus from replicating?
• Is the HIV vaccine on its way?
• Two-year-old boy hospitalised after drinking bathroom cleaner from a soft drink bottle
• Lokayukta notice to two Goa departments over hiring
• 74 dengue patients admitted in Siliguri hospital
• Sonali Bendre supports anti-dengue campaign

18 September 2013

• Eating red grapes, blueberries could enhance your immune system
• Fat deposits near heart can help predict risk posed by kidney disease
• EU to get rid of 'legal highs' from the market
• Experts want action plans to curb tobacco use
• Surgeon live-streams operation through Google Glass
• Pregnancy query of the day - Abnormality seen in ultrasound
• How to deal with morning sickness
• What parents of newborns ought to know
• 15 timeless Indian beauties
• Basics of weight training
• Vidya Balan decides to lose weight again for her next film!
• Apollo Hospitals to focus on tier II and tier III towns
• Milk teeth - eight facts you should know
• Need a healthcare watchdog: Former health minister Dinesh Trivedi
• Revealed - why you gain weight after dieting
• Beware - junk food, sugary drinks are likely to make you depressed!
• Poster boy Shahid Kapoor’s fitness secrets

17 September 2013

• Bihar midday meal tragedy: Midday meal resumes in Bihar school
• Comedian Billy Connolly treated for cancer, diagnosed with Parkinson's disease
• Rosie Huntington-Whiteley favours balanced diet
• Fitness has evolved, outdoor training in demand, says Aamir Khan's trainer
• What’s in store for this generation of medical students?
• Washington gunman Aaron Alexis: Was he suffering from PTSD due to 9/11?
• US FDA issues import alert against drugs made in Ranbaxy's Mohali unit
• John Abraham campaigns to eradicate clubfoot

16 September 2013

• Meet Chainsukh: A 94-year-old man who has recovered after a hip-replacement surgery
• Nina Davuluri - the Indian-American who overcame weight issues to become Miss America!
• Airtel Ghana funds ultra-modern medical teaching facility
• Bangalore hospital to check taboos on skin diseases like psoriasis, leprosy
• WB polio vaccine case: Four health workers suspended in Bengal
• Controlling BP and cholesterol can lower heart diseases risk
• 'There is a difference in the efficacy of aspirin from person to person': Experts
• Skipping breakfast could give you a heart attack!
• Bacteria could inactivate cardiac drugs: Scientists
• 800 heart surgeries, and still counting: Philanthropic doctors perform surgeries free of cost
• Footballer Christian Benitez passes away after suffering a cardiorespiratory arrest!
• Ahmedabad students fare the worst in serious ailments than other districts of Gujarat
• Free paediatric cardiac surgeries in West Bengal
• Kids of obese mums likelier to die of heart disease
• Over 55 and love coffee? Here is some advice for you
• Renowned Kasmiri cardiologist dies of gunshot wounds
• Heart's own stem cells could help treat cardiac failure
• Man becomes partially blind after heart valve-replacement surgery
• Doctor performs angioplasty in 16 minutes!
• What are the biggest heart attack risks for Indians?
• EECP - a cheaper, non invasive treatment for heart disease
• Wayne Parnell's heart condition: Is he suffering from pericarditis or myocarditis?
• Single pill for all cardio-vascular diseases found!
• Narayana Institute of Cardiac Sciences unveils a 'heart station' for cardiac check-up
• Having a positive attitude can keep your heart healthy!
• How unhealthy lifestyles affect the economy
• Gross medical negligence: 114 children given Hepatitis B vaccine instead of polio drops in West Bengal
• Dilip Kumar hospitalised after suffering a heart attack
• Frozen foods – Healthy or unhealthy?

15 September 2013

• Women in Delhi run to spread breast cancer awareness
• Cheers - alcohol does not cause depression!
• 'UPA government has gone to great lengths to improve health and education'
• Odisha dengue update: 3,490 cases since June
• An orange a day can keep cancer away!
• Pregnancy diet linked to children's mental development and intelligence

14 September 2013

• Meet Dr Ashith B Acharya - the dentist who helped solve the Delhi gang rape case
• Ganeshotsav too loud for seniors and children
• SE Asia health ministers vow to eradicate measles
• Child mortality has halved since 1990: UN
• With the wisdom of old-age comes less hangovers!
• Paes thanks Navratilova for teaching him to live a 'clean lifestyle'
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD needs to be recognised and treated

13 September 2013

• I am a fan of every fit body: Pooja Chopra
• Tips to choose the right blouse for your body type
• Scrub typhus claims eight lives in Himachal
• Losing post-pregnancy weight biggest challenge: Adriana Lima
• Uttarakhand floods: Victims suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Boxing helps keep Adriana Lima fit
• Colgate ropes in Kareena and Shriya as brand ambassadors for their new toothpaste
• Delhi gang rape: All four adult rapists get death sentence
• Increase taxes on tobacco industry: Sushma Swaraj
• Need guidelines on e-cigarette: WHO
• UP's Rae Bareli and West Bengal's Raiganj to get new AIIMS: Ghulam Nabi Azad
• Navratri special: Turn fasting into feasting this festive season
• Navratri healthy recipe: Sabudana Khichadi
• Navratri healthy recipe: Aloo pulao with samvat rice
• Famous celebrities who’ve insured their body parts
• Healthy Diwali recipe: Baked chakli
• Top 10 tips to keep your child safe this holi
• Healthy Christmas recipe: Baked cottage cheese pie
• Healthy Christmas recipe: Apple Pie
• Healthy Christmas recipe: Hot Apple Pie with Low Fat Custard
• Healthy Christmas recipe: Date rolls
• Healthy Christmas recipe: Custard Fruit Tarts
• Healthy Diwali recipe: Wheat flour and jaggery sheera
• Healthy Diwali recipe: Date and walnut sweetmeat
• Healthy Diwali recipes: Watermelon mojito
• Healthy Holi recipe: Orange kheer
• Healthy Holi recipe: Oats Chaat
• Janmashtami Special: Healthy twists to kheer, basundi and rabdi
• Forgo sugary drinks if you are suffering from gout
• India's Poonam Khetrapal Singh regional director of WHO's southeast Asian region
• Epilepsy patients' brain activity to be monitored

12 September 2013

• Duplicate medical equipment manufacturing facility raided in delhi
• United States FDA cracks down on ayurvedic, homeopathic diabetic medicines
• Taiwan on high alert after rabies outbreak!
• Glaxo patent on breast cancer drug revoked
• Taiwan reports 39 animals infected with rabies
• Diabetes pill may have anti-ageing effects
• India vs Big Pharma: Roche's breast cancer drug Hereceptin loses patent
• Ranbaxy's Indian facilities under scanner: Ghulam Nabi Azad
• Now dogs can detect cancer!
• Eat fruits, avoid fruit juices if you want to keep diabetes away!
• Beware - a big belly will kill you!
• Novo Nordisk to launch Tresiba - an insulin injection in India
• 1 in 10 Chinese may have diabetes!
• Scientists develop simple, rapid test for drug-resistant malaria
• WHO chief Dr Margaret Chan slams industry for blocking tobacco law
• Kolkata Municipal Corporation to make dengue test results available on your phone!
• Substitute unhealthy fruit ingredients with healthy ones
• 4-year-old boy youngest ever to undergo bariatric surgery
• What's needed is political will: Dr Devi Shetty
• Fewer PG seats leave doctors graduates forever
• 90% of the world's smokeless tobacco users are from South-East Asia!
• How did HIV+ woman die in hospital, asks Bihar panel
• 36% growth registered by HLL Lifecare
• PM Manmohan Singh says India is committed to a tobacco-free society
• Poverty can decrease people's IQ and other decision-making skills!
• Assam dengue fever update: Three dead in Guwahati in last three days
• Betel nut pulled out of a man's lung after 28 years!
• Indian-origin cardiologist named White House fellow
• Healthcare sector next frontier for Indian companies investing in Africa
• RbAp48: A brain protein linked to age-related memory loss
• Learning a new language during childhood alters your brain!
• Higher they rose, harder they fell: 365 hurt, 5 critical
• Pankaj Yadav: An 18-year-old boy who made it to IIT despite losing an eye to cancer
• Delhi High Court questions centre on rural medical course
• ZHL to provide ambulances in Africa, Latin America
• One out of five people nod off at work!
• Free dialysis for Delhi's poor
• Hrithik Roshan's back with a bang after his brain surgery!
• Mass rabies vaccination drive at Madurai
• Delhi gang rape: Juvenile court to announce verdict today
• Asaram Bapu likely to be arrested, supporters assault mediaperson
• Lack of sleep in the night can severely affect your brain functioning!
• Delhi gang rape: Court finds juvenile guilty of rape and murder
• Severe dearth of healthcare professionals, facilities in Delhi: Report
• HLL Lifecare's 594 crore Integrated Vaccine Complex to start supplies in 2016
• Goa hospital issued notice over water shortage
• Kerala gets first government medical college since 1982
• Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi expresses concern over dengue outbreak in Assam
• Mumbai gang rape: Why an age determination test for the minor may not help
• 23 engineers from IIT-Bombay join battle against cancer
• Curb technology import for universal healthcare: Report
• We've made considerable progress in medical research: Ghulam Nabi Azad
• SC seeks Central government's response on pentavalent vaccine plea
• Medical test reports to go online in district hospitals
• Max Super Speciality Hospital launches Citizen Plus card for elders
• Hookah bars banned in Gurgaon
• Odisha dengue update: 93 new cases on Tuesday, 2593 cases since June
• Mumbai Dengue Update: 3rd death in a month
• Indian scientists finding new ways to battle Kala azar
• Rs 4697 crore plan to strengthen cancer care approved by the government
• Amitabh Bachchan inaugrates paediatric wing of cancer hospital
• 40% youth ignorant about dengue, according to survey
• Deep sleep can help boost the way your brain functions!
• Dr Mukesh Batra honoured with Asia's 'most promising leader' award
• Coronavirus claims a victim in Qatar
• Jaganmohan Reddy is back in jail after being discharged from hospital
• Shouting parents are damaging their children!
• Mammals may host 320,000 undiscovered viruses, says study
• Sleep deprivation can make you look unattractive!
• Dengue and swine flu claim two in Mumbai
• Experts to review norms around sale of junk food in and around schools
• Michael Jackson's death trial takes a bizarre twist
• Schoolchildren to be provided milk powder instead of fresh milk
• New hospital to be set up in Delhi within 18 months
• Non-communicable diseases biggest threat for Southeast Asia
• Healthcare expo in Bangalore focuses on innovations
• Ratan Tata donates equipment worth Rs 5 crore to KEM hospital's paediatric heart surgery unit
• 4,700 Indian children below 5 years of age die every day
• Potential cure emerges for Down's syndrome
• ENT specialist Dr LH Hiranandani expires at the age of 96
• JIPMER signs a partnership agreement with Healthcare UK
• Parliament raises issue of a patient who was chained to a tree
• Human gut microbes may help fight obesity: Study
• BSF seizes huge illegal cough syrup consignment worth Rs. 8 lakh
• 36 people fall ill in Bihar after taking 'prasad'
• Health ministers of 11 southeast Asian countries to meet in New Delhi
• Medical education behind global standards, say students
• Programme to train rural youth in vision correction
• Nigerian conjoined twins separated after 13-hour surgery in Delhi hospital
• Government's game plan for the War on Cancer
• 226 dengue cases in Delhi, as compared to just 13 in 2012!
• Committee formed to study cell tower radiation, says Milind Deora
• Asaram's son, Narayan Sai accused of molestation, forcing woman to marry his disciple
• Docs fight dengue and faith to save 24-year-old Colaba woman
• 'Mental health emerging as public health challenge'
• New hospital, better medicare promised in Himachal
• Narayana Health to invest Rs 1,000 crore for opening hospitals across the country
• Rajasthan to give free dialysis for kidney patients from Oct 2
• 'Acute dearth of gynaecologists was a big cause of high maternal mortality in India'
• BC Roy Children's hospital crib deaths: Six more babies pass away
• Delhi gang rape: Fast-track court to announce verdict tomorrow
• You're likelier to get a heart attack in the morning!
• Medical college in Himachal to start session next year
• Miracle? Platelet count of Jehovah's patient goes up
• CAG slams government for buying high priced branded drugs
• Tripura to introduce generic medicines
• Immune cells that aid cancer growth identified
• World Suicide Prevention Day: One suicide happens every four minutes according to statistics
• 58-year-old Uruguayan man survives for four months on rats!
• Delhi hospitals gear up for more dengue cases
• Delhi hospital corrects Nigerian's rare brain disorder
• Better research could help contain tropical diseases: Experts
• Delhi gang rape: Accused found guilty of rape and murder
• Courage on crutches: Indian kids to speak at UN
• Tobacco in hookah less harmful than that in cigarettes
• Low healthcare spends major concern: President Mukherjee
• Chinese boy gets his eye back!
• World's only flying eye hospital calls for exchange of skills
• Bengal increases dengue testing units
• Health ministers from 11 southeast Asian countries pledge to contain hypertension

11 September 2013

• Delhi gang rape convicts to be sentenced on Friday
• I don't believe in diets, says Nicole Scherzinger

10 September 2013

• Are irregular shifts and working patterns bad for your pregnancy?

08 September 2013

• Fruit juices and smoothies not as healthy as believed to be!

07 September 2013

• 32 crib deaths: No 'poriborton' in West Bengal's woeful healthcare services
• West Bengal crib deaths: Inadequate infrastructure, increased inflow of patients to blame?
• West Bengal crib deaths: Hospital authorities refuse to take responsibility
• 4 weirdest cosmetic procedures

06 September 2013

• Women prefer to work out at home
• Moisturise well before make-up in winter
• Want tall kids? Drink milk during pregnancy!
• Inspire your child to go from fat to fit: Tips to tackle childhood obesity

05 September 2013

• Katrina Kaif and Aamir Khan look super-fit in Dhoom 3 trailer!
• Aamir Khan’s Dhoom 3 poster: Ripped back shows his strict dietary regime's paying off!
• Low-cal Indian dessert recipe: Baked rasgullas
• Low-cal Indian dessert recipe: Bulgur wheat kheer
• Healthy shahi paneer mutter recipe
• Healthy methi leaves sambhar recipe
• Healthy baked oondhiya recipe
• Healthy vada pav recipe
• Are we ready for a tobacco-free world?
• 125 schoolchildren taken ill after eating midday meals in Uttar Pradesh
• Alzheimer's disease could soon become history!
• Straightening your teeth isn’t just about unsightly braces anymore

04 September 2013

• Court reserves order on Asaram's bail plea
• Would you know if you were suffering from a hernia?
• Quiz: How health conscious are you?
• 10 tips to choose the right glasses for your eyes

03 September 2013

• Why can't surrogate mothers bond with child, asks plan panel
• Unsatisfied with juvenile's punishment: Delhi Lt Governor
• Amla can reduce your cancer risk by half!
• Healthy snacks for the office

02 September 2013

• No needle skin treatment for Katy Perry
• Kim Kardashian ready for post pregnancy weight loss!
• Parliamentary panel flays ICMR, PATH and the health ministry for illegal HPV vaccine trials
• Who is the real rapist?
• How Saif Ali Khan stays fit at 42
• Beauty basics to stick to on flights
• UPA aims to strengthen healthcare: Ghulam Nabi Azad