An ‘untouchable’ sarpanch, she touches many lives (Feature)
April 26th, 2012 - 12:53 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, April 26 (IANS) She was born into a community once considered untouchable in the Indian caste hierarchy and was married off at the age of nine. But 55-year-old Babai ... Read more...
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She braves bullets to bring healthcare to women (Feature)
April 16th, 2012 - 1:35 pm ICT by IANS
Jaipur, April 16 (IANS) The frail and seemingly calm Udasi Sahu manages to conceal the excitement of her first plane journey. But the 42-year-old health worker can't conceal the thrill ... Read more...
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Need urgent solutions to prevent child deaths, says NGO
November 4th, 2011 - 6:34 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) Urgent workable solutions is the need of the hour to prevent child deaths in India, where millions of children below the age of five die ... Read more...
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US firm dials in healthcare for seven million Indians
September 22nd, 2011 - 4:13 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) A US-based technology firm will promote access to healthcare among seven million Indians in rural areas over the next three years through mobile phone applications, ... Read more...
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Shortage of health workers increases child deaths: NGO
September 20th, 2011 - 8:00 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Facing a shortage of 2.6 million health workers, millions of children below the age of five in India are at risk of dying every year ... Read more...
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Kenya plans fighting diseases with mobile phones
August 5th, 2011 - 9:29 am ICT by IANS
Nairobi, Aug 5 (IANS) Researchers in Kenya are advocating use of mobile phones to enable people seek timely help against diseases like malaria and malnutrition.As mobile phones have penetrated most ... Read more...
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Maoists blow up ambulance, five killed (Lead)
November 28th, 2010 - 4:37 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Nov 28 (IANS) Five people, including two women and a child, were killed when Maoists blew up the ambulance they were travelling in in Orissa's Kandhamal district, police said Sunday.The landmine ... Read more...
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Mobile phone set to detect cancer
September 2nd, 2010 - 7:15 pm ICT by ANI
By ShwetaBangalore, Sep 2 (ANI): A hospital in cooperation with a research group here, has conceptualised and launched a health service that uses mobile phones to detect cancer.The Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Centre ... Read more...
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Orissa village on high alert after Dengue case detected
August 2nd, 2010 - 5:40 pm ICT by ANI
By Sarada LahangirBalishali Village (Orissa), Aug.2 (ANI): The tribal dominated Balisahi village of Orissa has been put on high alert since a Dengue case was detected here last week.Twenty two-year-old Pramila ... Read more...
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Oz restaurant owner tells diner mums to ‘keep their legs closed’
July 23rd, 2010 - 1:44 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, July 23 (ANI): A Darwin restaurant owner is facing flak over suggesting a group of mothers that they "keep their legs closed" after one of them brought her 11-week-old baby to ... Read more...
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Women’s support groups dramatically reduce neonatal mortality rates in India
March 8th, 2010 - 3:03 pm ICT by ANI
London, March 8 (ANI): Women's support groups operating in rural India have achieved dramatic success by significantly improving neonatal survival rates, a new study has revealed.These community groups provide a cost-effective intervention ... Read more...
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Nepal gets its first sex aid store
February 19th, 2010 - 12:34 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, Feb 19 (IANS) Nepal had the first casinos in South Asia and was probably the first in the region to approve of same sex marriages. Now the country has ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
We’ll pack you off to South Pole: BNP leader told on BBC show
October 23rd, 2009 - 3:20 pm ICT by IANS
By Dipankar De Sarkar
London, Oct 23 (IANS) The leader of the anti-immigrant British National Party (BNP) was booed, jeered and scorned by the studio audience of a popular television show ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Doctor in Bolivia dies of swine flu
August 6th, 2009 - 12:04 pm ICT by IANS
La Paz, Aug 6 (EFE) A doctor has died from influenza A (H1N1), better known as swine flu, raising the death toll from the disease in Bolivia to 12, the health ministry ... Read more...
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UK may confirm first swine flu human transmission
May 1st, 2009 - 7:07 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 1 (ANI): Britain's first human-to-human transmission of swine flu could be confirmed today.Twenty-four-year-old Graeme Pacitti may end up being Britain's first case of human-to-human transfer of swine flu. Results are ... Read more...
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Oz Catholic Church head says AIDS-afflicted countries ‘awash with condoms’
April 10th, 2009 - 6:31 pm ICT by ANI
Sydney, Apr.10 (ANI): The head of Australia's Catholic Church, Cardinal George Pell said today that most AIDS-afflicted countries were 'awash with condoms'.Cardinal Pell said he agreed with Pope Benedict XVI that condoms ... Read more...
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Shocking tales of Pak female health workers sexual harassment by colleagues surface
April 2nd, 2009 - 5:55 pm ICT by ANI
Karachi, Apr 2 (ANI): The condition of women in Pakistan seems to be worsening by the day, with the latest being exploitation of Lady Health Supervisors (LHS) by their male colleagues who ... Read more...
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Ultra-quick, low cost TB screening system to be launched in India
February 16th, 2009 - 4:32 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 16 (IANS) An innovative TB breathalyser, the outcome of an intensive six-year programme, will be ultra-quick and most reliable yet cost effective mode of detecting early stage tuberculosis.The breathalyser ... Read more...
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Data on over 6,000 prisoners in UK lost
January 10th, 2009 - 7:30 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan.10 (ANI): The British Government has done it again! It has lost a computer memory stick that contained the data of more than 6,000 prisoners in the country, besides some ... Read more...
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Health worker pleads guilty to selling Britneys medical records
December 3rd, 2008 - 5:28 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 3 (ANI): A health worker has pleaded guilty to selling medical information from the medical records of celebrities and high-profile patients, including Britney Spears and Farrah Fawcett to a ... Read more...
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Breast self-exams may be doing more harm than good
July 16th, 2008 - 3:44 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 16 (ANI): A new review challenges the effectiveness of breast self-exams, claiming that there is no evidence that would prove that it actually reduces breast cancer deaths.In fact, the ... Read more...
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South Asia’s health worker shortage to figure at G8 meet
July 6th, 2008 - 9:55 am ICT by IANS
By Patralekha Chatterjee
Geneva, July 6 (IANS) South Asia - including India - needs an additional 2.8 million health workers. The shortage there and in Africa is now so acute that it will ... Read more...
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100-kg lady wants police apology after ‘fat and black’ slur!
June 22nd, 2008 - 11:30 am ICT by ANI
Melbourne, June 22 (ANI): Fat and black these were the two words which left Rube Nixon furious, after they were written to her by a police officer in an official document.Now, ... Read more...
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Pakistani militants free two workers of US-based NGO
May 3rd, 2008 - 10:09 pm ICT by admin
DPA
Peshawar, May 3 (DPA) Islamic militants Saturday released four people, including two workers of a US based non governmental organisation (NGO), who had been taken hostage a few days ago in Pakistan's ... Read more...
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Militants gun down female health worker in Pakistan
April 18th, 2008 - 9:14 pm ICT by admin
Peshawar, Apr 18 (ANI): A female health worker has been shot dead by suspected militants in northwest Pakistan.According to officials, the woman was killed in Baotha Village of Mohmand tribal district.Assailants ... Read more...
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African doctors leave patients behind to find a better life
March 8th, 2008 - 9:39 am ICT by admin
DPA
Kampala (Uganda), March 8 (DPA) Lydia Mungherela left her home country Uganda in 1986 as it was in the throes of war and the burgeoning of a new disease called AIDS - ... Read more...
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WHO says world facing health worker shortage of four million
February 25th, 2008 - 7:05 pm ICT by admin
Geneva, Feb.25 (ANI): The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates there is a shortage of over four million health workers globally, with one million needed in Africa alone.
To address this critical issue, the ... Read more...
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