Earlier this week I was walking briskly down a footpath here in Prabhadevi, Mumbai. It was just past ten in the morning and I was just in time for a meeting. Okay, I admit I was mildly distracted by the work that lay ahead of me and was not entirely paying attention to the path in front of me.
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NEW DELHI: Hours after the Presidential assent to a bill enabling his removal, the government on Friday sacked eminent cardiac surgeon P Venugopal as AIIMS Director with whom Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss was locked in a long-running turf war in the prestigious institution.
T D Dogra, who heads Forensic Medicines and Toxicology Department and is next to Venugopal in seniority, was appointed AIIMS' acting chief.
Pakistan’s cup of domestic woes is brimming and threatens to spill over — both literally and metaphorically. The political and jihadi turbulence apart, lurking behind is a less noticed and closely guarded hydro-economic monster threatening to strangulate Pakistan: the health of its principal dam, Tarbela.
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BANGALORE: The IT capital just added another feather in its cap. Bangalore city has been ranked No. 2 among the 593 districts in the country in terms of existence of health facilities. Chennai tops the list.
Ironically, Bangalore Rural district stood at 67! The National Population Stabilization Fund (NPSF), in collaboration with the National Informatics Centre, has undertaken a unique exercise to create maps which show the existence of health facilities in each district across the country.
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LONDON: Is addiction a brain disease? The answer is yes if researchers are to be believed, because it changes the way the brain functions.
A team of international researchers has carried out a study and found that alcoholics and drug addicts are naturally more impulsive when compared to other normal people, The Daily Telegraph reported on Wednesday.
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