Elderly people are always more prone and sensitive at getting diseases, since they have a weak immune system which cannot effectively fight with the virus attacks. Until recently, it was thought that Flu vaccines can protect the older people from Flu and pneumonia, but this thought as per the researchers is false.

The survival story of Supratim Dutta is an uncommon story of a common man. A normal morning in the life of HCL executive turned into a battle of life. He was going to his office early morning on July 12 in a taxi. His driver fell asleep at the wheel and rammed the vehicle into a Delhi Metro Construction site at Ghitorni, on the Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road in south Delhi. A 5 feet long iron bar pierced through the bonnet of the car, impaled Dutta’s chest and fixed him to his car seat. Dutta called up his family and friends who took him to hospital. The iron rod had to be cut with iron cutter to release him.

New Delhi, July 31 : The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today gave its approval for the setting up of four metro blood banks as centres of excellence in transfusion medicine.

The blood banks would be set up at a cost of Rs. 468 crores out of which Rs. 228 crore will be a part of the ongoing National AIDS Control Programme-III (NACP-III).

These centres will be located at New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai.

Each centre will ensure 24-hour availability of blood and is designed to meet the highest standards of safety.

Accepting the advice of National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) quickly came up with revised sex education syllabus yesterday. On Tuesday, the NECRT, in a meeting with NACO, decided to remove the ‘objectionable’ contents and images from the books prepared to teach “sex education” to the teenage students.

The new bill passed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has banned the use of trans fats in restaurants and bakeries. This bill is the result of efforts of various health authorities which have been campaigning against the use artificial fat in food substances. Trans fat is linked to many heart diseases. All the health associations in U S have applauded California’s effort to protect health of its citizens.

It was sheer negligence of a nurse and a doctor in a nursing home in Hooghly that took lives of two women. These women died after a wrong injection given by nurse on the prescription of the doctor. Police has arrested the doctor and the nurse.