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    Schizophrenia Patients Remain Largely Untreated in India Due To Lack of Awareness & availability of Care

    Patiala :  Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe and disabling brain disorder, which is distressing both to the patient and family. In a country like India, where awareness about mental disorders remains abysmally low, and shrouded with myths and fallacies  creating awareness about the illness and how to manage it is very important. As we observe […]

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    GHCL Limited sponsors a free Dental Camp for underprivileged children in Ghaziabad in association with an NGO “Happy You”

    Ghaziabad : GHCL Limited, a leading company in the chemical & textiles sectors, today sponsored a free dental camp for the underprivileged children of Kanavani Village Government School, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad in association with an NGO “HAPPY YOU”. The camp aimed to spread oral health and hygiene awareness (which includes dental & general health check up, […]

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    World Mental Health Day – Today

    Ahmedabad :  Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe and disabling brain disorder, which is distressing both to the patient and family. In a country like India, where awareness about mental disorders remains abysmally low, and shrouded with myths and fallacies creating awareness about the illness and how to manage it is very important. As we observe […]

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    Regular Pap test helps prevent up to 90% of most common cervical cancers

    Noida: The second most widespread cancer in women, cervical cancer claims as many as 70,000 lives in India. Yet, awareness remains abysmally low regarding the concept of regular cervical screening with a pap test — that can prevent up to 90 per cent of the most common types of cancers. Cervical cancer is a cancer […]

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    Sankara Eye Hospital organizes ‘Beyond Sight’ on World Sight Day

    Bangalore : Sankara Eye Hospital, one of the premier eye hospitals in the country dedicated towards making India visually wealthy and eliminating needless blindness in India, organized Beyond Sight –a unique simulation of the world of darkness, by an interactive ‘Dark Zone’ at the hospital premises to celebrate World Sight Day. Participants were guided through […]

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    First Ebola patient in US dies

    A Liberian man who was diagnosed with Ebola last month just days after arriving in the US state of Texas, on Wednesday died after two weeks in hospital, officials said. Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, had been in critical condition on a respirator and was receiving kidney dialysis and an experimental antiviral drug, brincidofovir. “It is […]

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    Study: Dengue cases in India under-reported by 282 times

    The annual number of dengue cases in India is 282 times higher than what is officially reported, and the disease inflicts an economic burden on the country of at least USD 1.11 billion each year, according to a new scientific study published on Wednesday. “We found that India had nearly six million annual clinically diagnosed […]

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    Apollo Hospitals highlights evolving roles of nurses

    In a move to boost confidence in nurses and empower them with the latest trends and technologies, Apollo Hospitals today organized “National Nursing Conference – 2014” that highlighted emerging trends and challenges in the field of nursing.  Around 300 nurses participated in the conference which was also attended by leading doctors and other dignitaries like […]

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    Doctors at Paras Hospitals, Gurgaon performs India’s first day-care angioplasty on 55-year-old UP man

    Gurgaon : When 55-year-old Vinod Kumar was diagnosed with a blocked coronary vessel, he and his family were immediately worried about the prospects of his recovery as well as the financial costs of the hospital stay and other expenses of the procedure needed to open-up the narrowing artery. After all, the patient from Ballia town […]

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    Give free insulin to destitute diabetic children: Govt to docs

    Please provide free insulin to juvenile diabetic patients belonging to an economically weak background, was an appeal made by Union Minister Jitendra Singh to doctors on Saturday. Pitching for approximately 75,000 juvenile diabetic patients, Singh, a practising doctor himself, said a high rate of death among such children was mainly due to inability of their […]

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