Get voluntary donor for blood transfusion to cut infection risk
NEW DELHI: If you need blood transfusion, it’s better to get a voluntary donor than depend entirely on hospital stock. That’s because blood collected through replacement donations have a high…
AI’s dirty little secret: It’s powered by people
There’s a dirty little secret about artificial intelligence: It’s powered by hundreds of thousands of real people. From makeup artists in Venezuela to women in conservative parts of India, people…
Hospitals report multiple cases of viral fever in Delhi
NEW DELHI: Delhi is in the grip of viral illnesses. Doctors say that almost every second patient visiting them with febrile illness suffers from common cold, fever and cough caused…
Mirror Expose: How grieving families of dead are fleeced by the hearse mafia
Dozens of privately run ambulances doubling as hearses outside public hospitals are driving the unregulated industry of transporting the dead in Mumbai, profiting from heartbroken families’ need to promptly take…
Pune to get state’s first 50-bed Ayush hospital
Work on Rs 9-crore project to start in two months in Aundh; govt promises state-of-the-art facilities Maharashtra’s first 50-bed hospital dedicated to Ayush — ayurveda, yoga, unani, siddha and homeopathy…
3 children die due to ‘expired’ measles vaccines in Pakistan
Karachi, Mar 4 : Three children have died in Pakistan’s Sindh province after they were administered expired vaccines for measles, officials said today. The deaths were reported at the Peoples…
App to link volunteers working with stray dogs
Pune: The city-based non-governmental organization Sare Jahan se Acha Socio Eco Pol Foundation has developed a mobile application called Indies to connect volunteers working with stray dogs. Volunteers involved in…
NEET compulsory for MBBS overseas: Parents of medical students studying abroad threaten to go to High Court
After NEET was made compulsory even for students pursuing medical courses abroad, parents of nearly 100 students who are studying in Phillippines met at Maninagar on Sunday to decide on…
Disability rights crusader Javed Abidi dies at 53
NEW DELHI: India’s global face of disability rights movement, Javed Abidi, died of chest infection on Sunday. He was 53. Abidi, who founded the Disability Rights Group (DRG), and was…
After 10 yrs, woman regains sight due to rare tooth-in-the-eye surgery
By: Nitindra Bandyopadhyay A 35-year-old woman was able to see after a decade after doctors put a tooth in her eye, quite literally. This is a rare form of surgery…
