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Stop Smoking, Start Living: ‘World No Tobacco Day’

Stop Smoking, Start Living: ‘World No Tobacco Day’

Each year the last day of May is celebrated as the ‘World No Tobacco Day’ . It is sponsored annually by the World Health Organization to ‘wag a warning finger’ at the ‘excesses’, in terms ...

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International Day Of Action For Women's Health - 2007

International Day Of Action For Women's Health - 2007

Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: 'Universal access to health care is not a myth or a dream. It is a human right. We cannot implement that human right without eff...

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Nurturing Our Nurses for Healthcare Par Excellence

Nurturing Our Nurses for Healthcare Par Excellence

"Nurses - one of the few blessings of being ill" - Sara Moss-Wolfe Nobility, thy name is Nursing Care, comfort, and compassion are traits sacrosanct to the nursing profession, ...

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Red Cross renders emergency relief efficiently

Red Cross renders emergency relief efficiently

World Red Cross Day is observed on May 8 every year. The red cross you see across every healthcare unit in the city, isn't the symbol for the doctors. It's the icon of the Red Cross Society,...

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Asthma can Be Checked, Experts are Confident

Asthma can Be Checked, Experts are Confident

Moses Maimonides the physician to the Islamic King Saladin in 1150AD said about Asthma – ''I have no magic cure to report, all I have in mind is a rational conduct of life.'' ...

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Kidney Trade: Curbing the Sale

Kidney Trade: Curbing the Sale

The illegal barter of kidneys was first exposed when thirty poor women of the fishing community, living on Chennai’s outskirts, were discovered to have traded their kidneys. The 1994 Trans...

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Magic of Motherhood Through Egg Donation

Magic of Motherhood Through Egg Donation

   'Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.'     ………….. Lin Yutang Mother hood has been eulogized, since the time of eve, as the symbol of abysmal and ...

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Make Treatment of Parkinsons More Affordable, Doctors Plead

Make Treatment of Parkinsons More Affordable, Doctors Plead

A team of doctors led by Mona Raghothaman of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore in southern India, has made a strong plea for all out nationwide efforts to...

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'Invest in Health, Build a Safer Future': World Health Day

'Invest in Health, Build a Safer Future': World Health Day

The 'World Health Day' is celebrated on the 7 th of April every year. It is also the day, which marks the founding of the World Health Organization. The primary role of the World Heal...

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People Before Patents

People Before Patents

The Médecins Sans Frontière (MSF), a leading organization of conscientious and concerned doctors, has issued an alert about a lawsuit that the Swiss drugs firm, Novartis, has brought against...

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Genetic Technology and Eugenics

Genetic Technology and Eugenics

'The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress'. ...ISAAC ASIMOV The desire to strive towards betterm...

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Tuberculosis, A Challenge To The Political Will Of Governments, Says Veteran Crusader

Tuberculosis, A Challenge To The Political Will Of Governments, Says Veteran Crusader

Tuberculosis is a global emergency. It challenges the ability and will of the governments everywhere to evolve the right policy mix to foster the health of the vast masses of the disadvant...

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Global Tuberculosis Epidemic Levelling Off - WHO

Global Tuberculosis Epidemic Levelling Off - WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has claimed that the global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic has levelled off for the first time since it declared TB a public health emergency in 1993. The...

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World Kidney Day – Caring for the Kidneys

World Kidney Day – Caring for the Kidneys

March 8th is commemorated as the World Kidney Day every year. In today’s world, communicable diseases have paved the way for non-communicable ailments, like chronic kidney disease, ...

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Diminishing Differences and Empowering Eves

Diminishing Differences and Empowering Eves

“Woman was taken out of man; Not out of his head to top him, Nor out of his feet to be trampled underfoot; But out of his side to be equal to him, Under his arm to be protec...

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