Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh stressed the importance of public-private partnerships in health sector to cope up with the increasing demands on healthcare. He added that public sector can’t cope up with the healthcare requirement of huge country like India.

While inaugurating the first of Apollo’s Reach Hospitals at Karim Nagar via tele-link, Dr. Singh said it was the beginning of a new saga of enterprise and adventure to ensure provision of reliable, affordable and accessible care to all areas. With telemedicine at its core, the Apollo Reach Hospital model was an ideal example of an effective outreach programme. He expressed the hope that such efforts would multiply.

A new study has claimed that girls who tend to be closer to their fathers are most likely to choose men who look like their fathers, while boys who are closer to their mums, tend to choose women who resemble their mothers too.

The researchers have recently found out that this trait get inhibited in the genes itself. The matching of someone’s facial features to one’s opposite sex parent and to choose him or her as life partner is called “sexual imprinting.”

London, Sept 4 : A pair of twins who have spent over seven years suffering from leukaemia have finally recovered from the disease completely, and returned to school

Katie and Chelsea Young, 11, had contracted the disease within weeks of each other even though the chances of both getting it were nine million to one.

Their family feared that one or both of them could die.

However, upon their recovery, there was no one happier than their mother Sheena, 42, who for the first time felt "fantastic" as she waved them off to school.

Use of Viagra on a seven year old girl indicated that the drug has non-sexual, therapeutic uses.

Natalie Archibald of Musselburgh, Edinburgh another girl of this age suddenly collapsed when she opened her presents on Christmas Day two years ago.

When taken to a hospital by her parents, the doctors thought that she was over excited and treated her to calm her down.

When Natalie recovered she was never the same again as she suffered fits from exhaustion and sometimes was not even able to breathe normally.   

Net user should be ready for new disease namely "discomgoogolation".

The psychologists said that "discomgoogolation" is a sort of anxiety faced by some disconnected web individuals. It is caused when a net addicted user can not access internet or he is facing the problem of disconnection again & again.

Discomgoogolation can affect the general activities of human body. It can also lead to high level of blood pressure and increased brain activity in some cases.

Regular exercise including brisk walking can help improve memory in older people and delay the onset of dementia, says an Australian study. Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the study articulates that the results even though they were modest, were as good if not better than those seen with the use of drugs to help boost mental function in Alzheimer’s disease.