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Don't rush, just SMS for blood info |
CHENNAI: You will no longer have to race through peakhour traffic to a blood bank to save a life. Mobile service provider Airtel has now made a toll-free SMS facility available to its customers to enable them to be aware of stocks at the Jeevan Blood Bank... |
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High blood pressure and children: Watch your child's weight |
High blood pressure and children: Watch your child's weight
Unhealthy snacks, sugar-laden sodas and too many hours playing video games are taking their toll on children... |
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Blood Donation Day on every 18th : Mumbai |
MUMBAI: In a bid to increase voluntary blood donation, the state plans to promote the 18th of every month as the Community Blood Donation Day. The first such drive will be held in July, said senior government officials.
"The State Blood Transfusion Council (SBTC) is writing to all blood banks in the state to observe the 18th of every month as a day to let the community in," said Amitabh Chandra, prinicipal secretary of medical education, also in charge of SBTC... |
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Hospital blast turned blood donors into receivers |
AHMEDABAD: The news of the serial blasts drove a group of 15 blood donors to the Civil Hospital. Of these, four lost their lives while 10 others have found themselves in hospital in need of blood themselves.
Harshad Panchal who is undergoing treatment in C-4 ward of Civil Hospital said "We were a group of 15 people who always went and donated blood, in natural calamity or such strikes... |
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Girl dead, has Hantavirus hit India? |
The death of one girl from high fever and severe lung infection and another hospitalized, suffering from the same symptoms, has sent the health department in Uttarakhand into a tizzy over suspected spread of the deadly Hantavirus.
Authorities at Mahant Indresh Hospital had claimed that two girls — one from Dehradun and another from Tehri — were admitted some days ago with very high fever and severe infection in their lungs, both symptoms of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS)... |
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'Garlic lowers high blood pressure' |
Suffering from hypertension? Well, a daily dose of garlic could help save your life, for a study has revealed that it lowers high blood pressure as effectively as modern medicines.
A large number of people across the world have high blood pressure, but an even larger number are believed to have been suffering from the condition without knowing it... |
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Frequent blood donation safe |
NEW DELHI: Suresh Kamdas has broken a myth - that donating blood frequently lowers a person's immunity, making him prone to infections.
The 75-year-old, who first donated blood in 1962, is part of a select club of centurion donors - he has donated blood over 150 times... |
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Gang 'extracted' teen's blood |
GHAZIABAD: A 14-year-old boy who had gone missing from Vijaynagar on March 7 has returned and made the bizarre claim that he had been kidnapped by a gang which used to regularly extract blood from him and 20 other boys to sell it.
A local doctor who examined the boy said he indeed appeared to have been bled "over some time"...
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The guru of all blood donors |
AHMEDABAD: While Gujaratis top the blood donation charts in the world, this celibate monk in aapnu Amdavad is leading by example. He is perhaps the only guru to have donated blood for more than 100 times.
His mantra in life is: 'I get my bread from society and so every drop of my blood is to be given back... |
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Mobile blood bank to roll out on October 1 |
CHENNAI: The largest blood bank in the city - Government General Hospital, which collects at least 75 units of blood every day - is set to launch a mobile bank from next month. One unit is equal to 350 ml.
The mobile bank - a bus with six donor beds - will be flagged off on October 1, the national voluntary blood donation day... |
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