New Delhi, August 07: Delhi reported ten new cases of dengue Saturday, taking the total number of people affected by the mosquito-borne disease in the city to 107 this year, an official said.
‘Ten more people have tested positive for dengue in Delhi today (Saturday) but no deaths were reported,’ Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s chief medical officer N.K. Yadav told IANS.
One death due to dengue has been reported in Delhi this year.
–IANS
Jaunpur (UP), August 07: A towel allegedly left by a doctor has been recovered from the stomach of a 38-year-old woman, officials said here today.
Geeta Devi, a resident of Roopchandpur village, was operated upon for tumour by a government doctor on July 7, they said.
After 10 days, she complained of severe ache following which an ultrasound test was carried out which revealed the presence of some substance in her stomach, they said.
When Geeta Devi was re-operated late last night, the doctors found the towel from her stomach, officials said.
Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh), August 07: Medical check-ups, vaccination and medicines are not the only things on offer at a paediatric clinic here. For, it doubles up as a classroom for impoverished children who learn to read and write, thanks to the good doctor.
Nandini Ghosh, 55, dons the role of a teacher at her Deep Clinic in the busy Gorakhnath area of Gorakhpur, some 300 km from Lucknow, to educate slum children and the kids of vegetable vendors and street hawkers.
London, August 06: After the trauma of a miscarriage many women take a break to recover before they begin to try again for a baby. But they may in fact be increasing their risk of having another pregnancy with complications.
Women who conceive within six months of a miscarriage have the best chance of a healthy pregnancy with the lowest likelihood of another miscarriage, the Daily Mail quoted a British study as saying.
Beijing, August 06: A premature baby girl in Hubei Children’s Hospital surprised the medical staff when her blood turned out to be pink in colour, instead of red.
A report in media said that the 40-day-old infant had appeared to be in healthy condition at a local hospital when she was one-week-old.
However, she displayed some symptoms of illness about two weeks later and was transferred to Hubei, where her blood was discovered to be pink in colour.
The girl was diagnosed with hyperlipidemia, a lung infection, anemia and retinopathy.
Vadodara, August 06: Gujarat’s first ever milk bank set up in Kashiba Gordhanbhai Children hospital here at Karelibagh here has come to the rescue to many new born babies, who are deprived of breastfeeding due to several factors.
Dr Arun Phatak, who took a lead in setting up this human milk bank in this hospital, said the initiative became necessary after direct breast feeding became nearly impossible to several new borns due to many medical factors such as caesarean deliveries and in many cases when infants are abandoned or are orphaned due to maternal deaths.
London, August 05: Breast cancer screening may not be as useful as thought because in some cases, where the disease does not need treatment as it can heal itself or is very slow growing, unnecessary treatment is given.
Mammograms just manage to save one out of 258 women screened in Britain, concludes Kim McPherson, Oxford University epidemiologist and professor, reports the Daily Mail.
Uttar Pradesh, August 05: A 38-year-old man died of swine flu in this Uttar Pradesh capital on Wednesday, an official said.
Ram Shanker died at the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), where he was admitted Tuesday.
Shanker was a native of Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur district and had arrived in Lucknow two days ago. He was staying at his brother’s place in the Jankipuram locality.
In an attempt to control the spread of the virus, a team of health officials visited the residence of Shanker’s brother but could not find anyone there.
Australia, August 05: Many smokers who take pills to quit the habit have developed suicidal tendency and at least 15 have committed suicide while on medication since 2008, Australian drug-control authority has said.
Hundreds of people have considered killing themselves while taking the popular quit-smoking pill Champix and 15 have in fact committed suicide, the statistics show.
Toronto, August 04: A Canadian yoga teacher Tuesday claimed to have created a Guinness record by performing yoga non-stop for 32 hours.
The current Guinness Record of marathon yoga is 29 hours and four minutes.
But yoga instructor Yasmin Fudakowska-Gow, 28, Tuesday claimed that she has completed her 32-hour yoga marathon at her Om West yoga studio in Pointe Claire Village on the Island of Montreal.
Mumbai, August 03: Offering a ray of hope against recurrent In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) pregnancy failures, a leading hospital here is offering metabolomics profiling that will enable doctors shift from multiple to single embryo transfer.
“We, at Lilavati Hospital, are the first in Asia to have installed the technology which assesses embryos with respect to their viability and implantation potential,” said Hrishikesh Pai, joint-head of the hospital’s IVF Centre.
Breastfeedinf, August 03: can be challenging, especially when you are breastfeeding for the first time. However, many of the common problems mothers encounter are temporary and can be overcome. Here are a few common ones you may face while nursing, and some of the ways to deal with them.
Engorged breasts
Problem: When you produce more milk than your baby consumes (or she expresses), the milk may accumulate in breast tissues, causing swelling and tenderness or pain in your breasts. However, when the breast is engorged, babies may find it difficult to latch on properly.
Bhubaneswar, August 02: A 56-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man died of swine flu here Monday – the first deaths in Orissa due to the pandemic H1N1 virus this year, a senior health official said.
‘The woman from city’s Sailashree Vihar area tested positive for swine flu July 30. She was kept on ventilator at a private hospital where she succumbed to the illness,’ Bikash Patnaik, joint director in the state health directorate, told IANS.
The man from Tomando area, of the city died of the disease at another private hospital, he said.
New Delhi, August 02: With four fresh confirmed cases of dengue in the capital Monday, the number of people affected by the mosquito-borne disease has gone up to 61 this year, an official said.
‘Four people tested positive for dengue in Delhi today (Monday),’ Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s Chief Medical Officer N.K. Yadav told IANS.
One person has died this year due to dengue in Delhi.
–Agencies
Bhubaneswar, August 02: A 56-year-old woman died of swine flu at a private hospital here, the first death in the state from the pandemic H1N1 virus this year, a senior health official said.
‘The woman from city’s Sailashree Vihar area tested positive for swine flu on July 30. She was kept on ventilator at a private hospital where she succumbed to the illness,’ Bikash Patnaik, joint director in the state health directorate, told IANS.
Kolkata, August 02: Eight people tested positive for swine flu in West Bengal Monday, taking the number of confirmed cases of the contagious disease to 102 in the state this year, the health department said.
The department said in a release that 12 people are now admitted in hospital, with two of them in critical condition.
‘Eight confirmed cases of swine flu were reported today (Monday). The total confirmed cases of H1N1 infection is now 102 in the state in 2010,’ an official statement said.
London, August 02: British researchers have successfully used a genetically engineered herpes virus to treat patients suffering from head and neck cancer.
The virus was found to be more effective at killing tumours in combination with radiotherapy and chemotherapy than the standard cancer treatments on their own.
The research team modified the common virus so that it would multiply inside cancer cells but not in healthy cells.
New Delhi, August 02: The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) Monday launched the Condom Social Marketing Programme (CSMP), under the third phase of the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP-III), targeting sales of 47 crore condoms across 370 districts of the country.
The CSMP will focus on increasing condom availability, particularly in rural areas as well as in non-traditional outlets like grocery shops, roadside eateries, auto/taxi workshops, barber shops etc.
Raipur, July 31: The Chhattisgarh government has started airlifting doctors by choppers to tribal belts in Bijapur and Dantewada districts where dozens of people have died due to diarrhoea, cholera and other diseases in the past few months, a minister said Saturday.
‘We are receiving reports regularly about deaths of poor tribals in the interiors of Bijapur and Dantewada districts due to diarrhoea and cholera. We are rushing doctors by choppers to the affected areas,’ Health Minister Amar Agrawal told IANS.
New Delhi, July 31: In view of increasing tobacco use and its serious health hazards, a study has recommended that information on the hazards of tobacco use and cessation should be formally made a part of the medical curriculum in India.
The study ‘Tobacco Control and the Training of Health Care Providers’ released Friday emphasises that there is an urgent need to integrate tobacco control into public health and the Medical Council of India (MCI) should be responsible for developing a tobacco cessation training manual for medical students and health care providers.
Mumbai, July 31: The ongoing family feud for control over the estimated seven billion-rupee business empire linked to the Lilavati Hospital & Research Centre here Saturday took a new turn with a top trustee hitting out at others.
In a statement issue here, the hospital’s permanent and managing trustee Niket V. Mehta said that he was shocked by a statement issued last week by his relatives, Chetan Mehta, Prabodh Mehta and Rashmi Mehta, claiming that he was not a trustee of the institution.
New Delhi, July 31: Six new cases of dengue were detected in the capital Saturday, taking the total number of people affected by the mosquito-borne disease to 52, an official said.
‘Six people tested positive for dengue today (Saturday) in Delhi. But no deaths were reported,’ N.K. Yadav, chief medical officer of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), told IANS.
Delhi has so far reported one dengue death this year.
–IANS
New Delhi, July 30: As many as 11 more people tested positive for swine flu in Delhi, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 74 in the capital, an official said Friday.
‘Eleven people have tested positive for the influenza A (H1N1) in Delhi. There have been no deaths Friday,’ nodal officer for swine flu Debashish Bhattacharya told IANS.
Delhi has so far reported seven swine flu deaths.
–IANS
New Delhi, July 30: Five new cases of dengue in the capital have taken the number of people affected by the mosquito-borne disease to 46, an official said Friday.
‘Five people have tested positive for dengue in Delhi. But no deaths were reported Friday,’ N.K. Yadav, chief medical officer of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), told IANS.
Delhi has so far reported one dengue death this year.
–IANS
New Delhi, July 30: Malnutrition is not a major cause of death among infants as a report shows that only two percent kids die of it in India, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said here Friday.
‘As per the latest available data with the Registrar General of India (RGI) for 2001-03, two percent of the total infant deaths were due to malnutrition,’ Azad said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
However, he said malnutrition may ‘increase morbidity and mortality’ by reducing resistance to infections.