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October 2008

News: Health Insurance for Poor Spreads in 11 States

News: Students Announce AIDS Breakthrough

September 2008

News: ‘40% of India’s Health Problems Linked to Smoking’

News: Apollo to Set Up 200 Diabetes Clinics in India

News: Stumbling in the Dark

News: Novartis India Launches “Arogya Parivar” to Tap Rural Market

News: Heart Health

News: Cervical Cancer Vaccine Heads for India

News: Cycling for Good Health

News: Delhi to Soon have Drug Counselling Centres

News: Heal with Homeopathy

News: Dengue, Malaria Deaths in India Decline

August 2008

Article: Stents, Valves may Cost Less

Article: Sex by 18 for 50% women in state

Article: Two Suburbs to get High–tech Hospitals

Article: SBI launches loan scheme for poor heart patients

Article: Seven Lakh Rural Students to get Health Check–up

Article: Good News for Health Insurance Policyholders

Article: Health management training for 614 Indian districts

Article: Alzheimer’s: Puneite Breaks New Ground

Article: City offers ray of hope

Article: Explain Sex in Educational Module, Say Activists

Article: Physician, Heal Thyself

July 2008

Article: Break the Rules

Article: Are you hit by gym fatigue?

Article: Keep Fit with Namita – Your Fitness Jump

Article: Smokeless tobacco ups oral cancer risk 80 percent: WHO

Article: Cancer Watch – UK baby to be born free of breast cancer

Article: India losing battle against malaria in northeast

Article: India Plans State–of–the–Art Blood Transfusion Centres

Article: People still correlate epilepsy and religion

Article: Herbal cure for diabetes soon

Article: How to Select the Right Medical Insurance

June 2008

Article: India disapproves anti–AIDS drug plea

Article: Common malaria a deadly killer

Article: Radiation may help after prostate cancer setback

Article: Is mobile use harming you?

Article: There’s a Fatchance

Article: Mobile use can lower sperm count: Study

Article: Six blood donor institutions felicitated

Article: Frequent blood donation safe

Article: No chance of AIDS epidemic, says WHO

Article: Take a chill pill, folks

Article: Alert for diabetics

Article: A cure is on the cards

Article: New Drugs For Heart Failure Tested

Article: Weight loss

Article: Orissa Govt. May Streamline Private Practice

Article: Cut sugar to curb diseases: Study

Article: Squeezed by smoke

Article: Sleep tight!

Article: Free AIDS treatment at PCMC hospital

Article: Keep fit with Namita

Article: Medical miracle: Heart tumour removed

Article: Hope for diabetic PATIENTS

Article: Health alert

Article: Take care of plants the Ayurveda way

Article: Easy way of doing meditation

Article: India to combat anthrax

Article: Cancer & Spirituality

Article: Kerala Govt. To Improve Hospital Conditions

Article: Free spirit

Article: In search of the perfect… yoghurt

Article: Cure for a troubled mind

Article: The many pitfalls of teen life

Article: Don’t just pop morning–after pills

Article: Govt to extend no–smoking zones

May 2008

Article: Bad quality X–rays leads to radiation

Article: Wonder drug

Article: Staff with attention disorder hit output

Article: Anti–smoking group backs ban plan

Article: Surrogate ads luring kids to smoking: Study

Article: Rise in Lung Cancer sets off smoke alarm

Article: Study Warns Indian Women Against Smoking

Article: Kick the butt: smoking causes gum disease

Article: Pune to host world meeting on ovulation induction

Article: Cancer Watch

Article: Oct 2 to be ‘World No Alcohol Day’?

Article: All for a cause

Article: Regaining the colours of their minds

Article: Opt for a healthy lifestyle

Article: Mind that thought

Article: Problems of the mind

Article: Lecture series on ayurveda on May 25

Article: Vitamin D helps curb breast cancer

Article: Treating patients, virtually

Article: E–health initiative to link C’wealth nations

Article: Leukoderma patients fight against stigma

Article: City hospital starts stem cell therapy

March 2008

Article: Less Sleep Could Make Men Obese: Study

Year 2007

Article: National Rural Health Mission yet to gather steam

Article: India Succeeds In Patenting Tamarind

Article: Health Insurance to See Major Changes

Article: Aarogya.com wins The Manthan–AIF Award 2007

Article: Sexualisation ‘Harms’ Young Girls

Article: Sex Education To Adolescents Prevents HIV

Article: Radiation therapy right after spinal cord injury quickens healing process

Article: NRI docs find regular or diet colas can increase heart disease risk

Article: Drink milk for a healthy heart

Article: Stay Beautiful… And Healthy With Homeopathic Massage

Article: Curative Value Of Commercial Massage

Article: Getting Rid Of Stress, Naturally

Article: School Kids’ Tryst With Stress

Article: Better Eyesight Without Glasses

Article: Healing Powers Of Chiropractic Therapy

Article: Seeing Differently With Contact Lenses

Article: Should We Dread Old Age?

Article: Growing Up With My Daughter

Article: Alternative Therapies Offer Hope For Chronic Complaints

Article: Treading In Florence Nightingale’s Footsteps

Article: What’s Your Net Profit Doc?

Article: Mind Over Matter…

Article: Kerala Ayurvedic Treatment Center Brings Ancient Medicine To Modern Man

Article: Pune To Have A New Hospital

Article: Welcoming The Newborn

Article: The Humane Angle In Diabetics

Article: You Don’t Have To Feel Tired All The Time

Article: Communication: Key To Mental Health

Article: Having A Happy And Safe Diwali

Article: Marijuana – Not a Tempest In a Teacup… he Calm Before the Storm

Article: To Remember Those Who Cannot

Article: Should The Hearing Impaired Be Allowed To Drive?

Article: The Inhibition Of Family Relationships In Addiction And Alcoholism

Article: Where The Spirit Is Willing

Article: Cycle Your Way To Health

Article: Say Shree Ganeshayah Namah To Good Health

Article: Vipassana – A Healthy Way Of Life

Article: Is Your Ailment Psychosomatic?

Article: All children are born geniuses

Article: Young hearts under attack!

Article: Delivering your baby could be painless

Article: The net savvy doctor

Article: Cyber Sex: How far do we extend the realms of virtuality?

Article: Alka Hudlikar: Helping others, help themselves

Article: Can dreams cure you?

Article: Snoring – don’t sleep over it, get help!

Article: Does praying help during the time of sickness

Article: Does your libido decline after surgery?

Article: Does the gender of your doctor matter to you?

Article: Does obesity pose a health risk to children?

Article: Blood Donorship – Sometimes blood wears a mask

Article: AIDS and Ayurveda

Article: “Fad Diets” – Solution or Problem?

Article: Catching them young

Article: Apples can help combat Cancer

Article: The Fight against microbes

Article: Aging an uplifiting experience

Article: A day in the life of a dialysis technician

Article: A new method to get rid of scars and pigmentation

Article: Children And the Media

Article: Loud music and traffic hurts the ears

Article: Surgical Help For Epileptic Patients

Article: Spiritual Healing – Open your mind

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