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Retroscope - The Healing Touch

The following is no filmy story. But it has the possibility of inspiring a Raju Hirani or a Vidhu Vinod Chopra with a central character who is as delightful as Munnabhai an...

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Bollywood

Shah Rukh Khan Donates Rs 1 Crore For Chennai Flood

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has donated Rs 1 crore for Chennai flood victims. According to sources, SRK has contributed the sum to the Chief Minister’s Public ...

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Health

HIV Cases Dip, High-Risk Groups Still A Worry

HIVAIDS epidemic.? The first 29 years were marked with victory as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) metamorphosed from being the deadliest word in public health to jus...

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Trending

Global Drug Spending To Hit $1.4 Trillion In 2020: IMS

Global spending on medicines will reach $1.4 trillion in 2020, driven by increased healthcare access in emerging markets and high-priced new drugs for cancer and other dise...

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Trending

Over 8 Lakh Medical Shops To Be Shut On 14 October To Protest Online Sale Of Drugs.

As fast growing e-pharmacies eat into the incomes of lakhs of small chemist outlets, nearly 850,000 of them will remain shut on 14 October to protest against the online sal...

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Health

WHO Urges Action Against Antibiotic Resistance.

Cautioning against the indiscriminate use of antibiotics and other drugs which leads to resistance to medicines and treatment failure, the World Health Organization has urg...

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Health

India Plans To Enforce WHO-GMP Standards For All Pharmaceutical Products

The World Health Organization (WHO) has drawn up a good manufacturing practice (GMP), to ensure healthcare products are 'consistently produced and controlled' according to ...

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Health

On AIDS: Three Lessons From Africa.

An AIDS fable: Once upon a time, in the years after AIDS went from being a death sentence to a manageable disease, at least for people rich enough to take antiretroviral th...

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Health

In Rural Gujarat, 60% Mothers Die Few Days After Delivery

Dahod resident Ganga (name changed) went to a private doctor when she suffered from breathlessness and giddiness in the ninth month of pregnancy. She was given medicines an...

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The Right To Life

Watching a few clips of Blue Natalie, an Israeli Television series left me disturbed with the emotionally rough scenes of women being herded on to a yatch and then shoved d...

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