Nine new cases of swine flu were reported in the country on Saturday taking the total number of cases to 91. Four cases each was reported from Delhi and Bangalore while one from Punjab, a senior health ministry official said. In Bangalore, a family of four, which reached yesterday transiting through Germany from Newark in [...]

With the number of reported HIV cases in Illinois on the rise, area health officials are encouraging the public to get tested this week in recognition of National HIV Testing Day on Saturday. Educational events and free testing are available throughout the suburbs starting Wednesday with a program at Waubonsee Community College in Sugar [...]

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The “sistas” brought out pompons, sang and danced Saturday to celebrate their one year together. The focus of their festivities might have been taboo and grim for outsiders. After all, they were talking about HIV and AIDS.
But for the Sistas Organizing to Survive — SOS — the rally was a chance to break down [...]

The Ministry of Health announced five more cases of swine flu yesterday raising the total number of confirmed cases to 22. The five new cases involve two Filipino nurses who were treating one of the patients infected with the H1N1 virus at Riyadh’s King Abdul Aziz Medical City; a two-year-old boy of unreported nationality [...]

A Chennai hospital has done for six-month-old Tanisha, born with an “ineffective and underdeveloped” right lung and a “very large vessel” supplying blood to it, what hospitals in her hometown Calcutta could not — give her a new lease of life. One in a lakh babies suffers from the defect, known as Scimitar Syndrome. [...]

Recently internationally world no-smoking day was celebrated. Smoking as you know leads to lot of lethal diseases the important ones being various types of Cancer’s. Also Dr. Anubiram Ramdoss, Union Health minister, India issued the policy of pictorial warnings on cigarette and tobacco packets.
The UPA govt. kept its promise made to the NGO [...]

Smoking is injurious to health – and more so for women. According to doctors, smoking can lead to multiple complications in women and the very first heart attack could lead to sudden death. Praveen Aggarwal, chief cardiologist, Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, New Delhi, confirms a series of heart attacks among female smokers.
The [...]

The government needs to create a public health insurance plan because many parts of the country are monopolized by a single private health insurer, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Friday in an interview. Ms. Sebelius told The Wall Street Journal that a new public health insurance plan would benefit consumers by [...]

“It’s the combined taxidermist and veterinarian approach: either way you get your dog back,” says David Himmelstein, an internist at the Harvard Medical School and co-author of a letter published in this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The largest tobacco investor on the list, the 160-year old Prudential company with [...]