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Obama declares health care law is ‘here to stay’

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President Barack Obama has said that his signature health care law is 'here to stay' and repealing it is not an option.

MMC students create awareness about dengue

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As many as 500 medical, nursing and pharmacy students from Madras Medical College formed a human chain on Tuesday to spread awareness about dengue and its prevention.

“Placards depicting prevention

SRU seeks solutions to health problems

Sri Ramachandra University on Friday launched the second phase of the Purse-HIS study, which aims to find solutions to the state’s worst health problems.

The results of the first phase of the study,

Alarming rise in Sepsis deaths: Docs

Shubha was admitted to a corporate hospital in Chennai as her platelet count had fallen sharply because of a genetic condition.

All this mother-of-two needed was a simple transfusion of plasma and p

MMM to observe World Heart Rhythm Week

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If your heart flutters or skips a beat, making your head spin and your knees buckle, it may not be cupid at work with his bow and arrows.

These are symptoms of arrhythmia, the top cause for young p

Chennai doctors gift Iraqi woman sight

When Gula Namiq Hassan reaches Iraq on Monday, she will see her two children, four-year-old Rayan and seven-year-old Mohemmed, for the first time. After 18 years of being blind, Gula has a Chennai su

Hole in heart keeps 5-year-old alive

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Patients diagnosed with a hole in the heart are generally advised to undergo surgery to get it closed if they are to stay alive. However, contrary to it, came up a unique case at the city-based Fortis

Kochi moots health flying squad

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The city corporation plans to launch a health flying squad to monitor sanitation, drinking water quality and waste treatment in various places within the city limits.

The squad will have four mobile

In a first, HIV+ patient gets his gullet replaced

Ravirajan had not eaten a morsel of food for five years. A person who loved to eat, it was like a death sentence, even worse than the fact that he had AIDS, when he realized he could only swallow milk

Dengue situation not alarming: DMO

District medical officer Dr R. Sudhakaran said on Friday that there was no cause for alarm due to diseases in the district including contagious ones.

He asked residents to keep their surroundings cl

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