Doctors and manufacturers seem unperturbed by the ever increasing price of Acetrome, a drug for heart valve transplant patients.

A bill introduced during the last session of Parliament seeks to change the definition of death from when the heart stops beating to when the brain ceases to function. The bill will benefit patients awaiting organ transplants and who have to depend on the

More teens are getting cardiac problems today. Is it stress, the lifestyle or just the air?

Aneesh Mahajan (name changed), 14, a ninth standard student in Mumbai, had been having problems with anxiety and palpitations for some time. He wasn

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IBM sued over pollution Residents and business groups in New York sued IBM Corporation on January 3 alleging that decades of pollution from the company's former microelectronics plant in the village

• The Ministry for Protection of the Environment and Natural Resources of Russia has sold nine plots of wood in the Kaluzhsky region through an Internet auction. Apart from over 1,600 hits from

Pollution can lead to birth defects

the Delhi high court has banned the use of firecrackers and loudspeakers in the National Capital Territory of Delhi unless a special permission is taken. Their use is going to be regulated even

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