At least five members of a same family are diagnosed with colon cancer, a rare form of colon cancer they have. Experts say that their study of mutated chromosomes could provide valuable information.
Mrs. Saroja, wife of a railway employee, diagnosed with dozens of grape sized colon cancer and she was in the pre-cancer stage and doctors removed her entire large intestine and provided surgical relief from gastric reflux problem and stomach hernia in the same time along with intestinal removal. They have performed this all operation with new techniques within …

The Andhra Pradesh State AIDS Control Society (APSacs) has re-defines the meaning of AIDS and it said AIDS is not at all a killer disease, but a disease could be chronically manageable lifelong disease.
It said that the available better treatment facilities and nutrition and strict adherence to treatment regime, the life span can be prolonged.
However, there are as many as five lakh patients of AIDS are living in the state and however it is good news from Andhra Pradesh that the incidence of new cases has fell down …

People residing at Chennai have been badly hit by contagious diseases after heavy rain. The hospitals both at private and government are over-flowing with out-patients recently.
Particularly children are most affected by flu and common cold and some parents said that they are afraid of sending their children to school for infection.
Dr. Jayachandran, Director of Institute of child health in Egmore said that their hospital used to treat as many as 100 children daily for contagious diseases and the number has increased up to 450 per day. He added that …

Congress president aged 64 made her first public speech for about 10 minutes since undergoing treatment for an undisclosed ailment. But, she delivered no speech since then but, however appeared in the public several times.
Sonia returned to the political stage on Tuesday and attended the Congress youth rally in New Delhi arranged by her son Rahul Gandhi.
During her speech, Gandhi referred variety of legislation brought by UPA government. She added that UPA government passed bills on right to information, the forest rights act and right to education and …

Nagpur: Nagpur Zilla Parishad has ended its two week programme of the theme ‘Welcoming the birth of a girl child’ on Wednesday. The programme focused the world’s position without women and it insisted on ills and negative aspects of female foeticide.
Zilla Parishad has selected 40 couples for having female children, and without having a male child underwent family planning. The selected people will be awarded with Rs. 10,000 worth of national savings certificates which could help the female child when it attains adulthood. This will be distributed to people who …

36 lakh employees at Bangalore covered with ESI scheme are likely to avail the new facility at ESIC Model Hospital for advanced treatment in cardiology. To provide the facility, the ESI administration has tied up with State-run Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research.
The newly forming cardiac unit of ESIC model hospital in Rajajinagar will provide these super-specialty services to its beneficiaries soon.
A.K.Khokhar, the hospital superintendent said that they have signed the memorandum of understanding in this regard with Jeyadeva administration.
While celebrating the golden jubilee function and speaking …

Government Coimbatore Medical College nursing students have been severely affected by viral fever due to suspected contaminated drinking water and as many as 26 are admitted to Government Hospital three days before and the students said that their hostel is situated in side the campus of Medical College Hospital and reported that they suspect their drinking water from the over-head tank is contaminated with germs and disease causing organisms.
However, they accused hospital management for the poor hygiene and told that the management was highlighted several times for the poor hygiene …

Every family of a village in Tamil Nadu is having about 5 to 10 children and the village is situated near Thanjavur and about 380 km away from Tamil Nadu’s capital city Chennai. Almost there are 300 families are living there and the village name is Keezhathottam and almost all the people are indulged in fishing for their income.
The village is surrounded by backwaters of the Cauvery river which keeps on adding abnormal high rate of new-born every year. Most of the deliveries are happened only at homes and …

Orissa : a heart patient Jhunu Behera a resident of K. Barida village, Brahmpur, Ganjam district has gravely requested permission form the President of India and Governor of Orissa for euthanasia (physician assisted suicide or mercy killing).
Jhunu is 38 and mother of four children is suffering from heart disease and said that she doesn’t want to give more trouble for the family and added she wants to die which she had mentioned in her letter to President and Governor.
Both letters initiated on 28th October is said to be acknowledged …

Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that India is about to eradicate polio completely and it is on the verge of eradication and however it’s nearer countries are still struggling to eradicate polio still now including the largest country Pakistan.
Mr. Oliver Rosenbauer, the WHO spokesperson for polio programme said that there is no polio virus is found in Indian sewage though there are one or two cases during the year
The experts recently warned that if eradication fails now, it would be “the most expensive public health …