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Madurai, Aug 29 (ANI): Doctors at a hospital in Madurai claimed to have performed breast cancer surgeries on 14 patients within three-and-a-half hours.

Officials at the state-run Rajaji Hospital said the surgeries were performed on August 24 from 8.30 in the morning.octors termed it as a record in medical history.

“We already had seven patients who [...]

New Delhi, Aug. 9 (ANI): Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday apologised to the family of 14-year-old swine flu victim Reeda Shaikh for his remarks stating that she was responsible for infecting nearly 85 people of her [...]

Pune, Aug 9 (ANI): Taking a strong exception to Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad’s statement, that Reeda Sheikh was responsible for the entry of swine flu in India, members of her family on Sunday demanded his resignation.

Addressing a news conference here, Reeda’s mother [...]

Ahmedabad, Aug 9 (ANI): A 43-year-old non – resident Indian (NRI) died of swine flu early Sunday morning at the City Civil Hospital here, registering the first death by H1N1 virus in Gujarat.

With this, the country has seen four deaths from swine flu and the number of infected cases rising to 782.

On Saturday, 53-year-old [...]

New Delhi, Aug. 8 (ANI): At least fourteen more people were reported to have tested positive for swine flu in the national capital on Saturday, pushing the total number of people afflicted with the H1N1 virus to 215 here.

Confirmed positive cases included another case from the [...]

Manila – Philippine health authorities confirmed four new cases of swine flu, bringing to six the total number of people afflicted with the disease in the country.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque said two of the four new cases were in close contact with a Taiwanese mother and daughter who fell ill after returning from a wedding [...]

Manila – Philippine health authorities said Monday they were tracking down 50 people who attended a wedding two weeks ago with two Taiwanese nationals who later tested positive for swine flu.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque said the Taiwanese mother and her five-year-old daughter visited the Philippines for a wedding in Zambales province.
The mother and child became [...]

London, May 9 (ANI): British scientists announced they had worked out the full genetic code for the virus, even as the World Health Organisation (WHO) increased its global tally of confirmed swine flu cases to over 2,300.

Five new cases were diagnosed in the UK on Friday. There are now 39 confirmed cases in the UK.

Mexico [...]

London – Three people are currently undergoing specialist tests for suspected swine flu in Britain after their recent return from Mexico, Health Secretary Alan Johnson said Monday. He told parliament that the three patients were kept in isolation wards in hospitals in Scotland and in the northern city of Manchester after developing “flu-like” symptoms.
A further [...]

Manila – The Philippines has stepped up screening of travellers from Mexico and other countries affected by an outbreak of a deadly swine flu virus, health authorities said Monday. Health Secretary Francisco Duque stressed that there was still no case of swine flu among humans in the Philippines.
“There is no report of swine flu among [...]

London, Apr.30 (ANI): Restrictions on major events are likely to wreck Britain’s summer line-up, including the FA Cup Final, Glastonbury Festival and stadium gigs from bands such as Oasis, U2 and Take That.

The first signs that swine flu could reach pandemic proportions crept in yesterday as flights to Mexico were cancelled at Britain’s airports.

It came [...]

Mexico City, Apr.28 (ANI): The World Health Organization has raised the alert level in relation to the `Swine Flu’ epidemic to Phase 4, meaning there is sustained human-to-human transmission of the virus causing outbreaks in at least one country.

On Monday, the alert was raised above Phase 3.

Putting an alert at Phases 4 or 5 signals [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama made nearly $2.5 million in 2008 from the sales of his two best-selling memoirs, according to tax information released by the White House on Wednesday.
Obama jointly filed his 2008 federal income tax return with his wife Michelle, reporting an adjusted gross income of $2,656,902 and paying $855,323 in federal [...]

Manila – The Philippines on Wednesday launched a programme to immunize about half a million children below 5 years of age this year, to help prevent child deaths from illnesses which kill some 82,000 children every year. Health Secretary Francisco Duque said the government allocated 36.4 million pesos (75,800 dollars) to the immunization programme, as [...]

London, Apr.15 (ANI): Four former Labour ministers have blamed British Prime Minister Gordon Brown for allowing former aide Damian McBride to draw up plans to smear senior Conservatives.

According to The Independent, the ministers suggested that McBride was carrying out Brown’s wishes rather than acting as a freelance operator.

They joined Conservative leader David Cameron in [...]

Manila – Environment groups on Monday lambasted the Philippines’ health secretary for supervising the burning of thousands of bottles of salmonella-tainted peanut butter. The Ecological Waste Coalition criticized Health Secretary Francisco Duque for supervising the incineration of the contaminated products last week in Taguig City in metropolitan Manila.
The group said the disposal was a violation [...]

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CHENNAI: If the blood relative of a brain-dead patient is in need of a vital organ, can the family who is willing to sign papers for donation
demand that the organ be given to the relative? Is the doctor or hospital coordinating a cadaver organ donation liable if the organ retrieved loses it vitality? If the [...]