By: Jacob Koshy At 17, Rohim Sarkar weighs as much as the average 11-year-old. When shirtless, each of the seven pairs of bones that make up his upper ribcage is visible from five feet away. An attending doctor at the Habibpur block hospital in Malda, West Bengal feels his spleenContinue Reading
A recent article from CBS News proclaims that “few countries have come as close to eradicating Down syndrome births as Iceland.” The operative word here is “births.” Has Iceland discovered, through some groundbreaking technology and research, a cure to the chromosomal abnormality? No. How do you “disappear Down syndrome” then, as oneContinue Reading
The village of Sailani in the Buldhana district of Maharashtra is deceivingly normal on the surface — few eateries, couple of medical shops and clinics, cassette shops, bus and auto services and so on. The village and most of these shops are named ‘Sailani’ after a Muslim Saint — SailaniContinue Reading
Varanasi: After the detection of first cases of Zika virus in Gujarat, the health department in Varanasi has issued an alert suggesting dos and don’ts for preventing and controlling mosquito breeding. Chief medical officer Dr. VB Singh issued the alert for general public on Wednesday. He said that Zika virusContinue Reading
An artificial womb designed to support critically premature babies has been demonstrated successfully in animals for the first time, in an advance that could transform the lives of the most fragile newborns. Lambs born at the equivalent of 23 weeks in a human pregnancy were kept alive and appeared toContinue Reading
By Kirstie Brewer Diamo Parvez was born with cerebral palsy and died from complications when he was nine years old. During his life his parents were constantly struggling to get him the braces and splints he needed to support his body – and have channelled the pain of their lossContinue Reading
Social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest are causing more people to feel alone, according to US psychologists. A report suggests that more than two hours of social media use a day doubled the chances of a person experiencing social isolation. It claims exposure to idealised representations of otherContinue Reading
Mangaluru: “The Young Doctors wing of the Indian Medical Association is holding a state-wide campaign to safeguard the interests of all merit students from Karnataka, to resurrect social justice that has being trampled under privatization, to control the unbridled rise of cost of medical education, to save the standards ofContinue Reading
Antibiotic resistance is serious. And Health Ministry is now concerned Anti-microbial resistance (AMR) is a grave threat – it could cause critical antibiotics to fail, with bacteria becoming increasingly resistant to them. To tackle what could be a national health emergency in the near future, Union Health Minister JP NaddaContinue Reading
New Delhi: As many as 350,000 people died of diabetes in 2015, up from 224,000 in 2005, with the deadly disease climbing to the seventh position on the list of causes of deaths in the country, government said on Tuesday. The increase in numbers from 2005 to 2015 has leadContinue Reading