Plane makes emergency landing to save passenger

October 18th, 2009 CHENNAI - An Etihaad Airlines flight made an emergency landing at the Chennai Airport here Sunday to save the life of a passenger who had suffered a heart attack while the plane was in midair. The 55-year-old passenger Ismail flying from Abu Dhabi to Kuala Lumpur was immediately rushed to a private hospital from the airport.

October 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Diarrhoea kills nearly 1,000 children below the age of five everyday in India, but washing hands with soap and water can save the lives of at least 400 of these kids, a UN agency said Thursday on the occasion of Global Handwashing Day. In India, diarrhoea is a major killer with about 1,000 children below 5 years dying every day due to diarrhoea alone.

October 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Sending out a call for help, international NGO Save the Children estimates that around 750,000 children are in desperate need of clean water, medical care and food in the flood-hit districts of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. If help doesn't reach fast, there is imminent threat of an outbreak of diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases that will further risk the lives of millions of children and others, the NGO said.

October 7th, 2009 Pa. judge says inmate can refuse blood transfusionHARRISBURG, Pa. — A judge says the state of Pennsylvania cannot force a seriously ill prison inmate to undergo a blood transfusion — even if it could save his life.

October 7th, 2009 Web tool helps advise when flu needs a doctorWASHINGTON — Wondering if swine flu's bad enough to require a doctor's attention? An interactive Web site may help you decide, using the same type of triage calculations that doctors at Emory University use. Microsoft Corp.

October 6th, 2009 Study: 2 million babies and mothers die at birthJOHANNESBURG — More than 2 million babies and mothers die worldwide each year from childbirth complications, outnumbering child deaths from malaria and HIV/AIDS, according to a study. The study, released Tuesday at the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics world congress being held in Cape Town, also showed that such deaths could be easily avoided.

October 5th, 2009 Ind. doctor among 1st to get swine flu vaccinationINDIANAPOLIS — A group of Indiana health care workers is among the first in the nation to be vaccinated against the swine flu. Officials in Indiana and Tennessee set events for Monday to administer nasal mist doses of the swine flu vaccine to doctors, nurses, emergency medical workers and other health care professionals who work directly with patients.

October 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - More than 400,000 children die within 24 hours of their birth in India every year - the highest anywhere in the world, a study by an international charity said. While globally this figure stands at two million babies dying within a day of their birth, the shocking and tragic fact is that the reason for these deaths are diseases and infections that are easily treatable, and therefore the deaths are preventable.

October 4th, 2009 LONDON - A leading expert who helped develop the cervical cancer vaccine has claimed that the jab may be more deadly than the disease. Dr Diane Harper, the University of Missouri-Kansas, warned the vaccine was being "over-marketed" and the information about its potential side effects was not as popular.

September 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US will provide $5 billion in new grants for medical research, which will also create thousands of new jobs, President Barack Obama announced Wednesday. The funds will come from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, as the $787-billion economic stimulus package passed in February is known, to "conduct cutting-edge research all across America, to unlock treatments to diseases that have long plagued humanity, to save and enrich the lives of people all over the world," Obama said at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) outside Washington.

September 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Health-care officials are urging people who fear that they are experiencing the symptoms of swine flu-dizziness, headache, and sore throat with a running nose-not to head to hospital emergency rooms immediately. They fear that many people panicked by thoughts of H1N1 flu will do just that, and overtax emergency departments' abilities to care for the large number of patients, when there are more chances that their illnesses could be best treated at home.

September 4th, 2009 Wisc. woman sues spinach companies over E. coliSALINAS, Calif.

August 31st, 2009 PATNA - A five-day-old strike by the junior doctors in a hospital here has claimed the lives of at least 38 patients even as the Bihar government Monday served notices to the medicos and asked them to return to work or face action, an official said. A day after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar expressed his anger at the doctors' strike that has paralysed health services in the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH), Health Secretary C.K.

August 30th, 2009 PATNA - Patients here are suffering as the Government and other hospitals in Patna are over crowded due to the junior doctors strike over pay hike. A common sight at the Nalanda Medical College Hospital (NMCH) is of senior doctors attending patients lying on the floor since there are no vacant beds in the wards.

August 28th, 2009 Watson gets approval for emergency contraceptiveCORONA, Calif. — Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc.