The Doctor Only Knows Economics
This could be the UPA’s worst cut to its beloved aam admi. Healthcare has virtually been handed over to privateers. India is taking firm steps to a certain health disaster. All of 80 per cent of healthcare
Amba Batra Bakshi
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A Fat Lot Of Trouble
It is a combination of medical disorders that increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Also know as insulin resistance syndrome. Risks Syndrome X can lead to hypertension, heart disease, infertility, diabetes and other metabolic-related diseases. Causes and signs Biggest causes are sedentary lifestyle and an increase in processed foods consumption.
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Exiting All Windows...
Unsettled Bill ? The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has decided to quit India and hand over its HIV programme to the government ? Since 2003, the foundation has spent $260 million or Rs 1,300 crore on the AIDS programme in India ? There has been criticism that much of the money was wasted on high salaries, travel and extravagant coffee-table publications
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The Pig's Revenge
Swine Flu Primer What is H1N1? It's a virus which has gene segments from the swine, avian and human flu virus. Scientists have christened it influenza-a (h1n1) virus, commonly known as swine flu. What's A Pandemic? An epidemic of infectious disease that spreads through human populations across a large region. On June 11, the who declared h1n1 a pandemic.
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Last Few Doses
Only In India: Banned Abroad, Under Scanner Here... Analgin Use: Painkiller Reason for Ban: Causes bone marrow depression Cisapride Use: Reflux, constipation Reason for Ban: Could cause irregular heartbeat Human Placenta Extract Use: Chiefly used in cosmetic skin treatments Reason for Ban: Infections Quiniodochlor Use: Anti-diarrhoeal
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Exactly Like Papa
To Clone Or Not To Clone...
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Drop By Drop
The endemic western UP region, epicentre of all polio outbreaks, remained free of P1 for a record one-and-a-half years till mid-2008 Bihar recorded only 3 new cases of the P1 virus in 2008 New injectible polio vaccine (IPV) to be used to eradicate the disease
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The Young Are Ageing
More teens are getting cardiac problems today. Is it stress, the lifestyle or just the air? Aneesh Mahajan (name changed), 14, a ninth standard student in Mumbai, had been having problems with anxiety and palpitations for some time. He wasn