The `dark side' of beta-carotene and its cancer link   Can drinking benefit
Indian hearts?
 
       
   
       
New research suggests that there could be health hazards associated with consuming excessive amounts of beta-carotene.   How much is too much when it comes to alcohol? Will a peg or two help keep the hearts of Indians healthy just the same way it reportedly does to the western society?  
   
 
 
 
   
EDITORIAL  
  Dear reader,  
  Over a year ago when we repositioned Heal India as a magazine exclusively for doctors, it was a leap of faith. During the course of this year (14 months to be precise),  
   
 
   
HEAL Health Tip  
   
   
India's MDR-TB cases far less than WHO figures: Govt
   
The government of India has contested the WHO figures pertaining to the incidence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB)
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Delhi researchers develop rapid Alzheimer's test
Delhi researchers have come out with a novel, quicker way to detect Alzheimer’s disease (AD):by measuring brain’s acidity level in suspected patients.
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Leishmaniasis vaccine to be produced in India
 
A vaccine for deadly leishmaniasis may be well on its way, as India and the US have jointly started human trials of a new candidate.
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DRDO develops cochlear implant
The Defence Research and Development Organisation [DRDO] has developed an affordable cochlear implant.
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Trials & (herb)ulations   Opium vision  
       
   
       
Herbal medicine manufacturers oppose the Centre’s proposal to bring in good clinical practices to traditional systems deeming it as absolutely impractical   Morphine and other opium derivatives may soon be available unrestricted to the needy patients in pallative care, thanks to the new policy initiative by the Union ministry.  
   
 
   
 
       
 
Union Budget 2012 focuses on preventive healthcare  
       
 
The Union Budget 2012-13 brings a cheer to many in the health care sector albeit the long-standing emands for infrastructure status or allowing private-public partnership continue to remain unaddressed.
 
 
 
       
 
 
Unravelling Wilson’s
     
  Mumbai doctors spot 3 new mutations common in patients with Wilson’s
disease paving way for a customized, blood testbased diagnostic tool for
the intriguing disease.
   
 
 
 
WMA decries state control over physicians
     
  The World Medical Association (WMA) has raised strong objections against the move by the Slovakian Government to disempower the country's physician trade union and a new Polish law holding physicians financially liable for the administrative deficits of the Polish Health Care administration.
   
 
 
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