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A Simple Blood Test will Determine your Life Span

A Simple Blood Test will Determine your Life Span

Soon a simple blood test will detect an individual’s life span and pace of aging, which will be introduced in India by the end of this year.

Raid reveals the story of thriving expired medicine market

Raid reveals the story of thriving expired medicine market

When you visit a pharmacy next time do not forget to check the medicine for their expiry dates. The medicines you are buying might be counterfeit or for free circulation in the government hospital. On Tuesday, the Delhi police busted a gang selling spurious medications which are meant for MCD, ESI, CGHS and DGAFMS [...]

BMC all set to face the Monsoon

BMC all set to face the Monsoon

With an aim to lessen the response time and make the coordination between Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and other agencies more effective this monsoon, the BMC officials are trying everything. Because of the eventuality of a flood, the civic chief Mr. Subodh Kumar has worked out a plan that according to him is going to be [...]

Dengue and Malaria next target for the Department of Public Health

Dengue and Malaria next target for the Department of Public Health

The Department of Public Health has initiated a new program wherein a drive has been planned in schools in different districts where the teachers and other staffs will be educated about different kinds of vector borne and water borne diseases that usually break out in the monsoon season. Every year the department issues information about [...]

Do you talk to your own self? It’s good

Do you talk to your own self? It’s good

Have you ever seen people talking to their own selves and we seeing it as a sign of madness, however now this activity can help build self control. A new study carried out by the researchers at the University of Toronto says that talking to yourself may be the right thing to do when it [...]

A Simple Blood Test will Determine your Life Span

A Simple Blood Test will Determine your Life Span

Soon a simple blood test will detect an individual’s life span and pace of aging, which will be introduced in India by the end of this year.

Food Security Bill most likely to feature in the Budget for 2012-13

Food Security Bill most likely to feature in the Budget for 2012-13

Now expect food to get dearer by 2.2%. The Food Minister, KV Thomas, on Wednesday, held a meeting with the Prime Minister in which they discussed and analysed the final estimated cost of the Food Bill that will be unveiled in the 2012-13 budget.

REDUCE BREAST CANCER RISK BY 40% WITH FLAXSEEDS: HEALTH STUDY

REDUCE BREAST CANCER RISK BY 40% WITH FLAXSEEDS: HEALTH STUDY

According to a new study, a diet rich in flaxseeds can reduce the risk of breast cancer later in life by up to 40 per cent. The research was conducted by the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg, who found that foods like vegetables, seeds and wheat have special plant compounds such as phytoestrogens, which [...]

30 MILLION+ INDIANS ARE CARRIERS OF HEPATITIS VIRUS

30 MILLION+ INDIANS ARE CARRIERS OF HEPATITIS VIRUS

India might face another epidemic with Hepatitis virus, as according to recent health reports from various parts of India access that about 8 to 10 million have silent Hepatitis C virus infection and about 20 million people are Hep. B carriers, said Professor S K Acharya, HoD of gastroenterology at AIIMS. It is presumed that approximately [...]

Raid reveals the story of thriving expired medicine market

Raid reveals the story of thriving expired medicine market

When you visit a pharmacy next time do not forget to check the medicine for their expiry dates. The medicines you are buying might be counterfeit or for free circulation in the government hospital. On Tuesday, the Delhi police busted a gang selling spurious medications which are meant for MCD, ESI, CGHS and DGAFMS [...]

BMC all set to face the Monsoon

BMC all set to face the Monsoon

With an aim to lessen the response time and make the coordination between Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and other agencies more effective this monsoon, the BMC officials are trying everything. Because of the eventuality of a flood, the civic chief Mr. Subodh Kumar has worked out a plan that according to him is going to be [...]

Dengue and Malaria next target for the Department of Public Health

Dengue and Malaria next target for the Department of Public Health

The Department of Public Health has initiated a new program wherein a drive has been planned in schools in different districts where the teachers and other staffs will be educated about different kinds of vector borne and water borne diseases that usually break out in the monsoon season. Every year the department issues information about [...]

Thousands of people attend the Bathini Goud brothers’ camp for fish medicine

Thousands of people attend the Bathini Goud brothers’ camp for fish medicine

Bathini Goud brothers had claimed that there will thousands of people attending their camp to get fish medicines that claim to be a cure for asthma, and it happened. There were thousands of families that attended the medicinal camp held at Nampally Exhibition Grounds in Hyderabad. The asthma patients had to battle heat and rain [...]

Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation on a cleaning drive this monsoon

Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation on a cleaning drive this monsoon

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation has commenced desilting internal drains in 60 wards of the city. The dead line for the work is set till the 15th of June and the authorities are trying to make sure that the work goes on according to the schedule. The aim of the BMC is to clean the drains [...]

PENTAVALENT VACCINE TO REACH INDIA IN JUNE

PENTAVALENT VACCINE TO REACH INDIA IN JUNE

Under National Immunization Program, India will finally be able to see the country’s first 5-in-1 vaccine by the end of June this year. It was reported that the vaccine was planned to be launched in 10 states but to curtail the cost it will include only two. Union Health ministry will introduce the vaccine in [...]

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