India

 Stanching the bleeding heart

Heart surgeon K M Cherian has become the first doctor in India to perform heart surgery using a new technique known as trans-myocardial revascularisation (TMR). Performed previously only in the US,

Publication Date: 
30/01/1995
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Health Care, Health Personnel, Heart Diseases
Water Resources

 World Bank to fund health projects

Health care might become a major plank of the World Bank's list of projects. This year, the Bank will lend at least US $60 million for "micro-nutrient projects" in various countries to combat vitamin

Publication Date: 
30/01/1995
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Health Care, Aid, World Bank
India

 Aiding a disaster

The advent of AIDS could sharply increase the incidence of tuberculosis and of kala azar

Publication Date: 
14/01/1995
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India

 To hell with the hippocratic oath

THE burst of infectious diseases like malaria, kala-azar, cholera and tuberculosis in India is indicative of a deeper malaise. Despite a stated emphasis on participatory health management, in actual

Publication Date: 
14/01/1995
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Health Care, Drugs, Vector Borne Diseases, India
India

 Death's agent

Historical ills Malaria It has been hypothesised that the malarial parasite evolved either with humans or even earlier. Hippocrates wrote about it in the 5th century BC. In India, Ayurvedic

Publication Date: 
14/01/1995
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India

 Rising trend

Right from the "60s, DDT resistance of the malaria parasite host, Anopheles culicifacies, was detected in Gujarat. It was a rising trend. Another important vector, A stephensi, became so rugged that

Publication Date: 
14/01/1995
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India

 The microbes strike back

Diseases that were cheerfully believed to have been eradicated are inexplicably cropping up again in India in deadlier, drug resistant forms

Publication Date: 
14/01/1995
Max Martin, Ambika Sharma
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India

 Fun time for fungi

Fungal infections stalk the corridors hospitals in the Capital

Publication Date: 
30/12/1994
Anirudh Bhattacharya
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Health Care, Infectious Diseases, India, Delhi
India

 Fear strikes the heart

THE euphoria among cardiologists at the Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences (aiims) over the country's first heart transplant operation has proved to be shortlived. Plans to perform

Publication Date: 
14/11/1994
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Health Care, Organ Transplant, India, Delhi
India

 Malaria and the wrath of God

A WELL-KNOWN quasi-ecumenical argument against the existence of God is the existence of the mosquito: apart from being frustratingly acrobatic and musically demented, the little bugger serves no

Publication Date: 
30/10/1994
Bhanusingha Ghosh
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Malaria, Health Care, Public Participation, Asia

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