Goa is far from healthy and the new government needs to tackle several issues on a war footing.

With over 50.8 million diabetic Indians, the economic cost of diabetes is supposedly estimated to be 2.1% of the GDP.

Published data supports neither a beneficial effect of early insulin therapy on microvascular complications nor on cardiovascular events and mortality.

Prescription laws are in place so that medicines are not erroneously used. It would help if patients did not insist on buying medication without a prescription.

The country’s most famous homeopath, Dr MUKESH BATRA, tells you how to treat falling hair.

WHY ARE more and more people committing suicide in Goa? After all, isn’t it a state with a singularly happy reputation? Yet recently released figures in the State Assembly are alarming. In 2008, 287 suicides were registered; in 2009, 278 suicides were registered; in 2010, 310 suicides were registered and to date in the year 2011 up to February 28, 2011, it’s 36 suicides and, mind you, these figures are only those of registered suicides. Read the newspapers and, increasingly, we come across yet another suicide. Do you know that the world over after HIV/AIDs and road accidents, suicide is the third leading cause of death in the age group of 15 to 35 years?

By Our Special Correspondent
IT WAS a special emotional moment. The Hindu Pharmacy is marking its centenary year with a series of events to focus on health care. It started off with a heartwarming ceremonial function at the Goa College of Pharmacy, Panaji, on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011, at 10.30 am. A frail Xripati Vaidya Sahab […]

THIS year’s “XXII GIMACON 2010″, organized by the Bicholim branch of the Indian Medical Association on Oct 9 and 10, 2010, called for a whole host of things. Beginning with a health policy to a review of roles played by the Goa Medical College, State Health Directorate, improvement of public health and child development at Primary Health Centres and private practitioners;

INDIANS ACROSS the country were recently shocked to receive an SMS that read “Please forward this message to family and friends. Don’t eat phool gobi because a new virus HBF (High Bone Fever) is spreading from it. From: AIIMS, Delhi, Dr Bajaj.”

Irrespective of the much maligned superbug, originated in India or not, the fact remains that it is people who have travelled to India who have ested positive for the superbug. The concern over this bug which is bred in hospitals is due to the fact that it is resistant to all known antibiotics. It is of course possible that the pharmaceutical lobby has hyped the superbug scare so that it can create and sell an even more expensive range of antibiotics.