Madras Medical Mission (MMM) of Chennai is renowned in the field of cardiology. Recently it saved life of a 60-year-old chartered accountant of the same city. He was admitted to the hospital by his colleagues when he fell in a faint one day.  Senior consultant cardiologist Dr. Ulhas M Pandurangi concluded that the old person was suffering from arrhythmia. He was than operated and the AICD was implanted in his heart.

The series of blasts on October 30 at four places in Assam, including Guwahati will now be investigated by the CBI The state government had set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT), led by an inspector general of police (IGP), to investigate the serial explosions, but despite 11 arrests, the SIT was unable to make any headway in the case. The decision to handover the investigation into the serial blasts and the ethnic violence, to the CBI was taken after an all-party meeting convened by the state Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.

A team of surgeons successfully removed a six feet iron rod from the stomach of a 21-year-old man. It is a miracle for Santosh Kumar, who is a construction worker and had a nightmarish experience when a six feet iron rod fell from the 10th floor of the building at the construction site and pierced his body through shoulder and abdomen before coming out through his left thigh. It had penetrated his intestines in multiple locations and made 16 holes.

According to Deborah Anderson, a researcher from Harvard Medical School, the popular drink Coca-Cola douches do not kill sperms. Nearly five decades ago, Coca-Cola was used as a contraceptive that worked as an after-sex spermicide that worked well among women in the third-world countries. But the results of a new clinical trial debunk the efficacy of Coca-Cola douches, the Australian Associated Press reported.