Health

Impasse over, Rajasthan doctors call off strike

Hindustan Times - 
Government doctors in Rajasthan ended their 11-day-old strike late Saturday night after the state government announced the release of all 426 of their jailed colleagues and withdrew the Rajasthan Essential Services Maintenance Act (RESMA).

Six convicts escape from hospital

Times of India - 
HYDERABAD: Six prisoners supposedly suffering from a mental condition escaped from the Institute of Mental Health, Erragadda, in the wee hours of Friday in a fairly swift operation.

She is a ray of hope for the HIV-affected

Times of India - 
COIMBATORE: For many in the society, HIV/AIDS affliction is a stigma; but, not for Meenakshi. An HIV affected woman from Coimbatore, she has taken it her life mission to instill hope in the minds of people in similar conditions.

12 MP doctors fined for conducting drug trials

The Hindu - 
The Madhya Pradesh government has fined 12 doctors Rs. 5000 each for conducting drug trials on children and mentally challenged persons, even as the Opposition Congress termed the fine an “eyewash” and a “joke” and demanded a CBI probe into the matter.

Breast implant scandal: the whistleblowers

Telegraph.co.uk - 
Brook Berry alerted colleagues to worries about PIP implants in a 2007 letter to the British Journal of Plastic Surgery. Brook Berry, above, alerted colleagues to his worries about PIP implants in a 2007 letter, inset, to the British Journal of Plastic ...

CavinKare to launch 2-3 products by FY14

IBNLive.com - 
PTI | 11:01 AM,Jan 01,2012 Mumbai, Jan 1 (PTI) Diversified FMCG company CavinKare is planning to launch 2-3 products in foods and hair care segments by FY14, a top company executive has said.

Private nursing home under the scanner

Times of India - 
SHIMOGA: In a swift action police identified the private nursing home which dumped two dozen foetuses in the gutter near the river bed on Friday.

'JK health indicators better than national averages'

IBNLive.com - 
PTI | 06:01 PM,Jan 01,2012 Anil Bhat Jammu, Jan 1 (PTI) Healthcare sector in Jammu and Kashmir recorded a marked improvement in the year 2010-11 with a number of health indicators even bettering the national averages.

3 cups of tea a day keep heart attack, diabetes away

Indian Express - 
Tea has so many health benefits. Now, add two more to the long list - drinking three cups of the beverage daily can cut your risk of getting a heart attack as well as diabetes, says a new study.

High-fat diet 'injures brain'

Times of India - 
A high-fat diet, followed for even a short time, injures the brain, a new study has found. Researchers from the University of Washington School of Medicine looked at the brains of rodents that were bred to become obese and found that when placed on a ...

Accident in Bangalore: 14-yr-old's bones broken, father's heart

Daily News & Analysis - 
By DNA Correspondent | Place: Bangalore | Agency: DNA Fourteen-year-old Abhilash, one of the seven students injured in the accident on Friday morning, was mumbling for his parents when he was taken to the government hospital in Sira taluk in Tumkur ...

7 injured in Kalbadevi fire

Mid-Day - 
While the rest of the city was busy getting ready to bring in the New Year, for seven workers of Badmadi Gold, a jewellery-manufacturing unit at Kalbadevi, it was anything but a celebration, after a fire broke out in the premises.

City awaits Centre's crime tracking system

Times of India - 
NAGPUR: Don't get carried away by the bright red posters - highlighting the benefits of the central government's ambitious 'Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and System' (CCTNS)- spotted at Sadar police station, as the system might take another few ...

Discovered: Gene that causes pancreatic cancer

Times of India - 
Scientists have identified a genetic mutation which they believe increases the hereditary risk for developing pancreatic cancer. The finding of the ataxia telangiectasia mutated gene, or ATM, may hold the key to better screening the fourth most common ...

Rich find way to flout China's one-child rule

New Zealand Herald - 
The photo was undeniably cute: a studio portrait of eight babies in identical onesies and perky white cotton hats, sporting an array of expressions, from giggly to goofy, baffled to bawling.

China confirms 24 deaths from viral hemorrhagic fever

Philippine Star - 
JINAN (Xinhua) -- Rats are blamed for spreading the virus that caused 24 confirmed deaths this year in Shandong province from viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF), according to figures released by the provincial health bureau Saturday.

Yoga helps breast cancer survivors curb fatigue

Reuters - 
By Andrew M. Seaman | NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - About one third of breast cancer survivors experience fatigue that can affect their quality of life, but a small new study finds that doing yoga might help restore some lost vitality.

Chinese man dies from bird flu; first H5N1 fatality in 18 months

New York Daily News - 
BY Philip Caulfield A Chinese bus driver near Hong Kong died of bird flu on Saturday, becoming the first person killed by the virus since 2010.

At National School Games, a discovery of 'suspicious items'

Indian Express - 
The presence of caches of used syringes, vials and bottles of unknown substances in the Chhatrasal stadium, one of the venues of the ongoing 57th National School Games has raised fears of the possibility of athletes violating the anti-doping code.

Parents appeal Lok Adalat for dead son's semen

Times of India - 
KOCHI: In an unusual legal battle, parents of a 28-year-old man, who died in the prime of his youth, have approached the Lok Adalat in Kerala to retrieve their son's semen, preserved at a private hospital here.