The ambulance service has helped deliver 29 babies, mostly in remote regions In the 1960s doctors used to extract babies in difficult births by attaching a vacuum suction cup to the top of their skulls. It signalled the arrival of a generation of children fondly referred to later as vacuum babies.
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The band of 108 babies
Posted by Jenni (#1) 211 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)Making lives better
Posted by Jenni (#1) 212 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
When you are confused, plagued by doubts and negative thoughts or just want to give vent to your pent up emotions… the first person who comes to mind is a counsellor.
Paediatricians allay parents concerns
Posted by Jenni (#1) 212 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
Around 15 leading paediatricians from the city attempted to put to rest concerns of parents over the well-being of children at an interactive, humorous and visually-packed session organised by the Tamil Nadu and Tiruchi chapters of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) along with Hospital Administration Department of Shrimati Indira Gandhi College here on Sunday.
Polio vaccine absolutely safe don't believe rumours
Posted by Jenni (#1) 213 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
The State government is adopting a comprehensive strategy to keep the State polio-free and ensure that all children are covered under the polio immunisation.
India has seen longest polio-free period this year
Posted by Jenni (#1) 213 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
Even though India is yet to be declared polio-free nation by the World Health Organisation, the year 2011 has something to cheer about for the country in polio eradication drive.
Soap opera
Posted by Jenni (#1) 215 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
October 15 is Global Handwashing Day. Efforts are being to made to spread the message of washing hands to keep diseases at bay an image forever frozen in the minds of Sachin Tendulkar fan
Centre proposes to merge rural and urban health missions
Posted by Jenni (#1) 215 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
The Centre proposes to merge the National Rural Health Mission and the yet-to-be-launched National Urban Health Mission in the 13th Five-Year-Plan period.
World’s first drug ‘that could stop cataract blindness’
Posted by Jenni (#1) 216 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
In what could be called a major breakthrough Australian scientists claim to have created the world’s first drug which can prevent blindness from cataracts.