More than 20 killed in ghastly train accident in Northern India

LUCKNOW —More than 20 persons were killed and over one hundred injured in a ghastly train accident in the Uttara Pradesh state of India on Sunday. According to information, moe than 100 injured passengers were rescued by railwaymen and police when the Kalka Mail derailed...

Citizens' vote for change: Zero tolerance for corruption

Citizens indeed see a ray of hope in the campaign led by Anna Hazare to stem corruption. Never before I had seen hundreds of citizens in Lucknow marching to Hazratganj with a candle lit in their hands and hope beaming in their hearts - to stop corruption. The fight against...

Emerging global mandate to save 36 million lives from NCDs

According to The Lancet, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), mainly heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancers, and chronic respiratory disease, are responsible for two out of every three deaths worldwide and the toll is rising. A landmark global alliance between leading...

World Health Day:Coordinated approach to fight TB drug resistance

TB drug resistance can be overcome with a comprehensive, multi-pronged strategy: The Union--------------(CNS): Some 440,000 cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are identified each year, causing at least 150,000 deaths from a disease that should be curable....

70% of lower extremity amputations happen to people with diabetes

Amrita Diabetic Foot Conference (ADFC 2011) will open soon next month in Kochi, India. "Over one million lower extremity amputations are performed each year, 70% of which happen to people with diabetes. In India, almost 40,000 legs are amputated every year as a consequence of...

A Nation Goes Berserk

(CNS): Yes the men in blue (or rather we, as one would believe) did it after 28 years, and perhaps in doing so absolved themselves of all the ills of the past –somewhat like taking a dip in the Ganges, which is said to absolve the Hindus of their sins (despite its high...

Anna Hazare on fast-unto-death against corruption

Mounting pressure on India to enforce Lokpal Bill----------(CNS): From 5th April 2011, noted social activist and Padmabhushan and Padmashree awardee Anna Hazare has begun his fast-unto-death in New Delhi to put pressure on the Government of India to root out corruption. Not...

Hope floats for children in schools of Rai Bareilly

Thakurainganj, Ralpur: For twelve year old Akash who suffers from a rare nutritional deficiency which has rendered him a midget, living in Thakurainganj, District  Ralpur, Rai Bareilly does not hold any special significance. Given the fact that it also happens to be the...

First Chinese Product Development Partnership For Global Health

On World TB Day 2011, WHO, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Stop TB Partnership called upon world leaders to step up their commitment and contributions to meet the goal of diagnosing and treating one million people with multi...

After treatment for genital tuberculosis (TB), woman gives birth

(CNS): This is not sensational news but in spotlight because CNS recently reported that genital tuberculosis was one of the lead causes of tubal infertility and only 2 per cent women with genital TB delivered live births. It was a very positive news that a woman with genital...

bereaved husbands

For fiftysomething ‘me’ with two kids, visions of living life without wife would always give me shudders. A living example of the nightmarish kind of situation, for my eightysomething father the loss of spouse has been one of the hardest things that he has ever been...