Police made a miraculous recovery of the baby who was stolen from National Medical College Hospital on Friday. Acting on a tip-off that the stolen baby was kept at a house on Broad Street in South Kolkata after being sold, police identified the shelter and summoned the family who had taken custody of the baby. An elderly woman later deposited the baby to Beniapukur police ...Read More

tanagar: Gaining the opportunity to be the first state in northeast, Arunachal Pradesh has launched Directly Observed Treatment Service (DOTS) for treatment of patients suffering Multi Drug Resistance (MDR) tuberculosis. The service was started at DOTS plus site in Arunachal state hospital at Naharlagun. State director of health services Dr K Nishing inaugurated the programme. And distributed DOTS Plus (CAT IV) medicine to two patient, suffering ...Read More

Mayurbhanj: Bird flu has been confirmed at Bahanada village of Betanati area in Mayurbhanj district. This was said by a senior official in fisheriese said and animal resource department. He said one of the 41 bird samples sent from the area to the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory, Bhopal has tested positive for H5N1 avian influenza. A team of experts and officials was sent to ...Read More

Cuttack: The Pipili gang rape victim, whose condition had moved Orissa High Court, was on Wednesday shifted to SCB Medical College in Cuttack for treatment by specialists. The 19-year old Dalit girl, who is in coma since the incident on November 28 last year, has been admitted to the central ICU of the hospital ...Read More

Kolkata: Two days after a woman died giving birth to twin babies on a pavement in the city, causing public outcry against medical negligence, West Bengal government has claimed that no state-run hospital refused to admit her and that she had actually died at her residence. Rebutting charges of medical negligence in denying Usha Devi admission in Sambhunath Pandit Hospital on Friday night, Director of ...Read More

An untainted glass of milk is hard to find in India. Safety regulators were stunned to find much of the country’s milk is either diluted or contaminated with chemicals, including bleach, fertilizer or detergents, reports Reuters. Other milk samples were found to be adulterated with skimmed milk powder and, more dangerously, hydrogen peroxide. Milk was also found to have been watered down. "Consumption of milk with detergent may cause ...Read More

A 70-year-old paralysed man on ventilator in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a government hospital here was allegedly attacked by rats who nibbled on his ears, nose, lips and cheeks while hospital staff slept, hospital sources said. The authorities at the government hospital have launched an investigation into the incident. The man, whose identity was withheld, was unable to move due to paralysis when the ...Read More

Dubai: Five-year-old Satvik Vashisht, who took upon himself the task of creating awareness among smokers about health benefits of quitting, has been honoured by the Public Health and Safety Department of Dubai Municipality for his efforts. Vashisht, who was featured by Gulf News when he started the campaign last year, reached out to more than ...Read More

PARIS — A drug discovered nearly four years ago that builds muscles in lazy mice may also prevent heatstroke, according to lab research reported on Sunday. If further tests work out, the compound could help athletes or soldiers who are so sensitive to heat that they could die from exertion on a hot day, its authors say. In 2008, a drug known as AICAR became dubbed the ...Read More

From grandma’s home remedies for cough, cold and other ailments, ‘tulsi’ (Indian Basil) is now being tested by Indian scientists for treating people exposed to harmful radiations and initial tests have shown some positive results. Scientists at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) have developed a tulsi-based herbal medicine for treating people exposed to radiations. ...Read More