India is meeting the challenge of reaching quality health care to every household in a country of over a billion people living in over 700,000 cities, towns, villages and hamlets. The country boasts of some of the finest hospitals in the region, cutting-edge research facilities, pharma companies which also export their products to other countries. Indian doctors are known for their expertise and commitment to their chosen vocation.
The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) is one of the flagship initiatives of the government. Over the last three years of implementation, the NRHM has brought about comprehensive rejuvenation of the public health system in the country.
Healthcare firms eye choppers as air ambulances By Rohit Vaid In keeping with global trends, helicopters are now being eyed as air ambulances to provide emergency medical aid and ferry patients to hospitals across India.
Myth busting: Eat to lose that extra flab By Madhusree Chatterjee Please eat or you are not going to lose weight, says Bollywood's star actress Kareena Kapoor, the size zero protagonist, standing a popular notion on its head.
Want to quit smoking? Get professional help Anjali Ojha Promising to quit smoking is one of the most common New Year resolutions. However, by the end of the first week of January, the craving for nicotine drives people to break the pledge.
Yoga in the snow? Mountaineer challenges Baba Ramdev By Asit Srivastava He's a mountaineer and a yoga instructor and claims to have performed yoga bare-bodied in Ladakh's snow-clad mountains at an altitude of over 14,000 ft in the Indian Himalayas. And Ajai Kumar Bajpayee has now dared renowned yoga guru Baba Ramdev to match his feat.
Edible vaccine for malaria on way By K.S. Jayaraman A spoonful of genetically modified starch could be a new malaria vaccine if a new strategy that seems to work in mice also performs well in humans.
A medical tourism company - with end-to-end solutions By Ritika Jha With Punjab and its capital Chandigarh attracting an increasing number of overseas patients, a group of doctors has floated a medical tourism company to provide end-to-end solutions -- including pick-ups from the airport and doctors' appointments.
De-stress, eat jaggery A new survey has revealed a high incidence of low birth weight babies in urban India. So, if you are an expecting mom, here's how to guard against it - go for malted foods, don't get stressed, make sure you exercise and cut out the cigarettes and alcohol completely.
New anti-AIDS drug goes after virus, avoids side-effects German scientists have discovered a substance known as a peptide that thwarts the AIDS virus and causes far fewer side-effects than existing anti-HIV drugs, they said Wednesday.
Price tag for 2010 disasters: $222 billion (2010 in Retrospect) The global economic losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters equalled $222 billion in 2010, more than triple the $63 billion lost in 2009, according to reinsurance company Swiss Re.
A university to teach how to laugh your way through life! By V.S Karnic Imagine a campus where you learn how to laugh instead of mugging up textbooks, where you are trained to accumulate health instead of wealth, where you don't lose sleep over exams and instead get cured of insomnia. A 'university' like that will soon be a reality on Bangalore's outskirts!
How to slay 'the emperor'? Ask Indian American cancer specialist By Arun Kumar Indian American cancer specialist Siddhartha Mukherjee, whose very first book has become a runaway success, advocates a strong anti-smoking campaign and breast cancer screening to battle the growing incidence of the disease in India.
Bitter cold in Kashmir with below freezing temperatures Srinagar, Dec 10 (IANS) The minimum temperature once again fell to minus 3.8 degrees Celsius in summer capital Srinagar Friday as bone chilling cold continued in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir.
Use medical research to treat patients: Health minister New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) India's Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has urged Indian researchers not to treat medical research only as an academic exercise but use the findings in treating patients.
Working class malady - Bollywood's on-screen illnesses! By Robin Bansal Progeria, paraplegia, anterograde amnesia - Bollywood's current portrayal of unusual ailments might be drawing applause from the elite, but it is leaving front benchers baffled.
Artificial kidney made by Indian American awaits human trials By Arun Kumar A coffee cup sized implantable artificial kidney being developed by a US researcher of Indian origin, is awaiting animal and human trials to bring affordable treatment to millions of kidney failure patients worldwide.
Food fables: Eatables have a story to tell By Madhusree Chatterjee Food was once a good word. It symbolised fulfilment, nutrition and well-being. But when did it all change? When did we become such guilt-ridden unhappy eaters? Food writer Ratna Rajaiah explores many such questions in her new book "How the Banana Goes to Heaven".
Indian American doctor eyes stem cell bomb against cancer By Arun Kumar An Indian-American cancer physician and researcher holds out hope for a next generation of drugs attacking malignant stem cells to slay what he calls the "Emperor of All Maladies" - cancer.
Indian-led team transforms human skin into blood cells By Gurmukh Singh Toronto, Nov 8 (IANS) In a major breakthrough in medical sciences, an Indo-Canadian researcher and his team have successfully transformed human skin into various blood cells.
Deadliest form of malaria can be wiped out in a decade London, Oct 31 (IANS) The deadliest type of malaria could be wiped out in most parts of the world in 10 to 15 years, scientists are predicting on the basis of data collected on the parasite from around the world.
'Go green' with male herbal contraceptives By Anil Sharma Jaipur, Oct 9 (IANS) Men could soon be popping contraceptive pills made of plants if the results of experiments carried out at Rajasthan University are anything to go by.
Burundi counts on Pan-African e-Network Project to improve medicare By Prof. Antoine Kantiza, Master UTICEF, Indian medical cooperation in Burundi is in a takeoff phase. Apart from the Aug 19-20 visit of specialists of MIOT hospital to the BUMEREC hospital in capital Bujumbura, other steps that have contributed to this are regular surgical operations by Indian ophthalmologists in Burundi as well as the visit two years ago of Indian specialists to the Health and Surgical Center of Kinindo. During the latest visit of specialists, patients who require surgery were invited to India as operation threatres in Indian hospitals have state-of-the-art technological equipment that is lacking in Burundi.
US, India share practices to combat HIV/AIDS in Africa New Delhi, Sep 3 (ANI) India and the United States joined forces to showcase the strengths of India's HIV/AIDS prevention and control program for a delegation from Ghana, a real-life example of the bilateral partnership on global issues.
Indian doctors to provide free services in China Beijing, Aug 17 (IANS) Indian and Chinese doctors Tuesday formed a team here to exchange data on health care and to offer free medical services in the rural areas of both countries, Xinhua reported.
India fourth in plastic surgeries - and experts know why By Ruchika Kher Mumbai, Aug 13 (IANS) Are looks important for Indians? Certainly, going by a survey that has ranked India fourth as a plastic surgery hotspot. Doctors attribute the trend to greater spending capacity, the celebrity factor and world class medical facilities in the country.
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