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India to establish plasma fractionation centre
New Delhi, Oct 8 - In a major boost for patients who require repeated transfusions, the government Wednesday approved the establishment of a plasma fractionation centre at a cost of Rs.1.85 billion.
Oct 10, 2008 - 10:06:09 PM
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Researcher recounts horror tales at AIIMS animal lab
New Delhi, Oct 7 - Nothing is done the way it should be in the Central Animal Facility in AIIMS, says a researcher who spent days there with the aim of learning animal care at the premier institute. Officials at the facility, however, deny the charge.
Oct 10, 2008 - 1:23:43 PM
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Slum residents celebrate Dussehra, pledge to fight social evils
Chandigarh, Oct 9 - Drawing a parallel with the festival of Dussehra which symbolises the victory of good over evil, the residents of a slum colony here Thursday burnt the effigy of a demon representing social evils such as AIDS and drug addiction.
Oct 9, 2008 - 4:04:08 PM
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Turned away by health centre, woman gives birth at tea-stall
Lucknow, Oct 9 - After a pregnant woman was turned away from a community health centre - in the Uttar Pradesh capital, she was forced to give birth at a tea stall, officials said.
Oct 9, 2008 - 3:09:42 PM
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Delhi to get 150 new ambulances
New Delhi, Oct 8 - The capital city is all set to have 150 new fully equipped ambulances and 20 responder - vehicles in efforts to boost its emergency medical services, the state cabinet decided Wednesday.
Oct 8, 2008 - 8:15:13 PM
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Britain wants to work with India to combat diabetes
Chennai, Oct 8 - The British government wants to work with India in combating the slow killer disease diabetes.
Oct 8, 2008 - 6:16:45 PM
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People throng to 'Navratri witches' for cure to AIDS, cancer
Raipur, Oct 8 - In a bizarre ritual that took place midnight last on the outskirts of Raipur, three women known as the 'Navratri witches' and claiming to be blessed by goddess Durga, slapped people while chanting the names of the goddess to rid them of dreaded diseases like AIDS and cancer.
Oct 8, 2008 - 3:43:59 PM
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Mizoram children with cleft lips to get their smiles back
Aizawl, Oct 8 - A US-based charitable medical mission called the Smile Train has taken an initiative to bring smiles to children with cleft lips and palates in Mizoram.
Oct 8, 2008 - 1:44:42 PM
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Punjab, Haryana people spend more on health, less on insurance
Chandigarh, Oct 7 - People in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh set aside a huge part of their annual income for health expenses, but spend very little on health insurance, according to a survey released Tuesday.
Oct 7, 2008 - 7:55:59 PM
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12 die of mysterious disease in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow, Oct 7 - The number of victims of a mysterious disease in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur district has mounted to 12, with five more people succumbing since Monday, officials said Tuesday.
Oct 7, 2008 - 3:22:14 PM
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Kerala medicos end protest after government assurances
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 6 - After their day-long token protest and the state health department assurances that their demands would be looked into, protesting doctors and medical students called off their indefinite strike here Monday.
Oct 6, 2008 - 8:18:41 PM
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Smoking ban wafts offshore to Goa casinos
Panaji, Oct 4 - Offshore Goa casinos, where punters love to push their luck, will not be spared from the ban on smoking in public places, an official said.
Oct 4, 2008 - 1:40:48 PM
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80 persons fined by anti-smoking squads in capital
New Delhi, Oct 3 - Anti-smoking squads fined 80 violators for smoking in public places across the capital Friday, a Delhi government official said.
Oct 3, 2008 - 7:28:24 PM
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India joins the world in banning smoking in public
New Delhi, Oct 2 - India Thursday joined a growing number of nations in imposing a total ban on smoking in public but there were doubts about how effectively the diktat could be imposed.
Oct 2, 2008 - 6:06:04 PM
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Smoking ban on, but implementing squads off on Gandhi Jayanti
New Delhi, Oct 2 - The government may have chosen Gandhi Jayanti as the most appropriate occasion to bring in its ban on smoking in public places but the day held an unexpected bonus for smokers in the Indian capital with its implementing squads being on holiday.
Oct 2, 2008 - 4:00:06 PM
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'Parents should dispel myths, educate children about sex'
New Delhi, Oct 2 - When your child asks you where babies come from, telling him or her that a stork flies them in or they are found under cabbage plants may not be the ideal way to address the child's curiosity, says Australian sex expert Rosie King.
Oct 2, 2008 - 11:18:38 AM
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Pay bills, take body, hospital tells family
Ludhiana, Oct 1 - The body of a 40-year-old man of this Punjab district will have to wait for some more time for its last rites as a leading private hospital in this industrial city Wednesday refused to let the bereaved family conduct funeral till it paid pending bills of Rs.218,000.
Oct 1, 2008 - 10:34:00 PM
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No doctor to deny treatment to HIV+ person: government
New Delhi, Oct 1 - The government Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it has issued statutory orders to ensure that no hospital, doctor or paramedical staff would deny the requisite treatment to an HIV positive person.
Oct 1, 2008 - 7:04:31 PM
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India gears up to implement stringent smoking curbs
New Delhi, Oct 1 - Hotels, restaurants, airports, railway stations, offices, shops and factories Wednesday prepared to enforce a smoking ban in public across India in a major effort to curb tobacco use that authorities say kill an estimated 900,000 people in the country every year.
Oct 1, 2008 - 11:23:11 AM
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Goa smokers take their last puffs in favourite cafe
Panaji, Oct 1 - It's evening and a haze of bluish smoke hovers sluggishly over a few tables at Cafe Prakash, a watering hole near the Mandovi river that fringes this Goan capital.
Oct 1, 2008 - 9:41:13 AM
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40 percent of India's health problems linked to smoking: Ramadoss
New Delhi, Sep 30 - Forty percent of India's health problems are linked to smoking, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss says, defending the stringent measures to ban smoking in public places from Oct 2.
Sep 30, 2008 - 10:14:57 AM
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Wake up to global reality on gays: Ramadoss
New Delhi, Sep 29 - A combative Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, who has lost his battle with the government on legalising homosexuality, says India should wake up to the growing global acceptance of gays as this would ensure 'an effective fight against AIDS'.
Sep 29, 2008 - 10:46:33 AM
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Foetus found in one-and-a-half month old boy
Kolkata, Sep 29 - One-and-a-half-month-old Junaid Alam was barely able to breathe because of his increasing abdominal swelling. But neither he nor his parents knew that the infant was actually carrying the foetus of his sibling inside him.
Sep 29, 2008 - 10:09:37 AM
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Acute equipment shortage in Srinagar hospital
Srinagar, Sep 26 - The department for children at the hospital here where 17 babies died in a span of two months is facing an acute shortage of equipment, a doctor said here Friday.
Sep 26, 2008 - 2:45:42 PM
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Morality cannot overshadow fundamental rights: Gay activists
New Delhi, Sep 25 - Stressing that morality cannot overshadow fundamental rights of a citizen, gay rights activists Thursday argued before the Delhi High Court for decriminalisation of homosexuality among consenting adults.
Sep 25, 2008 - 8:49:20 PM
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Orissa flood toll rises to 56, thousands diseased
Bhubaneswar, Sept 25 - Thousands of people in Orissa are now suffering from water borne diseases after the floods that have devastated parts of the state, with the toll rising to 56 after eight more deaths were reported Thursday.
Sep 25, 2008 - 7:45:00 PM
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600 doctors' posts lying vacant in Kerala medical colleges
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 25 - The five state-run medical colleges in Kerala were facing a staff crunch due to poor service conditions and 600 doctors' vacancies were lying unfilled -- and expected to cross 1,000 in the next few years, an office-bearer of a medical college teacher's body said Thursday.
Sep 25, 2008 - 3:09:14 PM
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Diseases hit thousands as Orissa's flood toll rises to 50
Bhubaneswar, Sep 25 - Thousands of people in Orissa are now suffering from water borne diseases due to the floods that have devastated large part of the state, with the death toll Thursday rising to 50 after two more deaths were reported.
Sep 25, 2008 - 1:18:00 PM
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AIDS train roadshow to arrive in Ahmedabad Thursday
Ahmedabad, Sep 24 - The seven-coach Red Ribbon Express is all set to arrive in the city's railway station Thursday to showcase an exhibition on HIV and AIDS. The train will remain at the Ahmedabad railway station for the next two days.
Sep 24, 2008 - 2:24:57 PM
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Little sisters love to chomp on chillies
Mondarmoni -, Sep 24 - They are just five and seven years old, but it's not chocolates and chips that Joshna and Shanti are after. Both the sisters in this seaside village love to eat three kilos of green chillies each every day!
Sep 24, 2008 - 1:37:10 PM
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Kottayam to be declared as tobacco free district soon
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 23 - Kottayam in Kerala will be the first region in the country to be declared a tobacco free district, a top official said Tuesday.
Sep 23, 2008 - 5:50:54 PM
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Madhya Pradesh admits 48,000 kids malnourished, denies deaths
Bhopal, Sep 23 - Madhya Pradesh has admitted to having 48,000 malnourished kids in the state but the death of 93 children in past four months were 'in no way related to malnutrition', a minister claimed here Tuesday.
Sep 23, 2008 - 1:52:49 PM
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Congress protests BJP-led MCD's 'inefficiency' to check dengue
New Delhi, Sep 22 - With dengue cases in the national capital reaching an alarming figure of 409, opposition Congress municipal councillors Monday protested against the alleged inefficiency of Bharatiya Janata Party-run Municipal Corporation of Delhi in checking the epidemic.
Sep 22, 2008 - 9:49:05 PM
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Now, a sperm bank in Mumbai
Mumbai, Sep 22 - Thousands of couples facing the infertility problem may now take heart! A Denmark headquartered company Monday set up a sperm bank in Mumbai that is expected to provide viable alternatives to start a family.
Sep 22, 2008 - 6:44:44 PM
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Central government takes on Uttar Pradesh over immunization
Lucknow, Sep 22 - The Uttar Pradesh government's health machinery is cooking up statistics so that it can attack the central government, the health ministry in New Delhi has alleged.
Sep 22, 2008 - 2:15:04 PM
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Primary health still lowest priority for states
New Delhi, Sep 22 - About 50 percent of posts of specialists at various community health centres - are lying vacant in India, says a report by industry lobby Assocham, indicating that primary health still remains the lowest priority of state governments.
Sep 22, 2008 - 8:07:07 AM
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Indians find simpler way to make transgenic mice
Bangalore, Sep 21 - Indian scientists, traditionally known for their skill to find low-cost solutions to complex problems, have developed a technique that should potentially reduce the cost of drug development worldwide.
Sep 21, 2008 - 1:52:50 PM
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Supreme Court to hear 45 cases by tobacco firms
New Delhi, Sep 21 - The Supreme Court will on Sep 29 hear 45 cases filed against graphic health warnings on tobacco packs, probably the first time so many petitions have been clubbed together for one hearing.
Sep 21, 2008 - 12:54:40 PM
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Hoteliers to file case against government on anti smoking rule
Chennai, Sep 20 - The Indian hotel industry will file a case against the government against its anti smoking rule that is to be implemented from Oct 2, a hotel industry representative said here Saturday.
Sep 20, 2008 - 6:30:40 PM
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2.1 percent of Indians have disabilities, says expert
Ahmedabad, Sep 20 - India has 2.1 percent of its people with disabilities, with blindness comprising the largest percentage and hearing disability on the rise, said an expert at a seminar here.
Sep 20, 2008 - 5:49:26 PM
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Call for crackdown on stem cell quacks in China, India
Bangalore, Sep 19 - An international effort is on to protect desperate patients from becoming victims of costly and unproven stem cell 'therapies' being marketed in several countries, including India and China.
Sep 19, 2008 - 12:11:18 PM
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Violence marks the life of Karnataka's sex workers
Mysore, Sep 18 - Scars of violence marking Revathi's face is not easy to be missed by anyone. But more than that, it is the emotional trauma of being sold off by her husband to a pimp who has inflicted severe physical torture on the 28-year-old sex worker that has left a lifetime 'injury' on her very identity.
Sep 18, 2008 - 7:15:02 PM
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Chinese mayor sacked over baby food scandal
Beijing, Sep 18 - China Thursday sacked the mayor of the northern city of Shijiazhuang, the base of the company which marketed contaminated baby food that led to the death of three infants and made more than 6,000 ill.
Sep 18, 2008 - 12:57:13 PM
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Buddha's 'no comments' on his smoking
Kolkata, Sep 17 - West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, whose smoking habit has led to state capital Kolkata losing out on international funds, Wednesday refused to comment on union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss' comment that he cannot smoke in a public place from Oct 2 when a ban on lighting up comes into effect.
Sep 17, 2008 - 11:09:33 PM
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Verdict reserved on medical negligence victim's plea
New Delhi, Sep 17 - The Supreme Court Wednesday reserved its verdict on appeals challenging the national consumer commission's order awarding a compensation of Rs.1.5 million to an Infosys engineer, a medical negligence victim who was paralysed below the waist.
Sep 17, 2008 - 6:22:18 PM
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Central government to blame for diseases: Uttar Pradesh minister
Lucknow, Sep 16 - Uttar Pradesh Health Minister Anant Kumar Misra Tuesday blamed the central government for the various diseases threatening to take on an epidemic proportion in the state.
Sep 16, 2008 - 11:56:59 PM
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Ramadoss wants a dedicated corpus to fight tobacco
New Delhi, Sep 16 - Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss Tuesday said funds collected through surcharge on tobacco products should be used for tobacco control activities and he will soon write to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his approval.
Sep 16, 2008 - 9:32:45 PM
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Buddhadeb cannot smoke in Writers Building, asserts Ramadoss
New Delhi, Sep 16 - West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya cannot smoke in any public places including the state secretariat Writers' Building from Oct 2 when a general ban will come into effect, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss reiterated Tuesday.
Sep 16, 2008 - 5:20:40 PM
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Jyoti Basu to be discharged from hospital
Kolkata, Sep 16 - Former West Bengal chief minister and veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu, hospitalised here with a head injury, will be discharged from the nursing home by Tuesday evening, an official said here.
Sep 16, 2008 - 1:54:05 PM
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Uttar Pradesh receives 'unfit' Japanese Encephalitis vaccines
Lucknow, Sep 15 - Already delayed by over three months, the vaccination against the Japanese Encephalitis - disease in Uttar Pradesh has suffered yet another blow with the health officials here alleging supply of 'unfit' vaccine stocks sent from the Union Health Ministry.
Sep 15, 2008 - 8:50:43 PM
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