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    For millions of people with type 2 diabetes, ongoing vigilance over the amount of sugar, or glucose, in their blood is the key to health. (Photo: Pixabay)Lifestyle
    Use millets, bid bye to lifestyle disorders: Surgeons, nutritionist

    The state agriculture department's push for millets has got the stamp approval of cardiac surgeons and nutritionists.

    9 Jan 2018 4:15 AM IST

    It has declared closure of all routine services for 12 hours from 6 am to 6 pm. Hospitals in the city are likely to see chaotic scenes as no routine OPD and elective surgeries will be taken up.Nation
    Bengaluru: Hospitals to be shut, doctors strike today

    According to the NMC Bill, only up to 40% of seats in a private medical college can be regulated by the government.

    2 Jan 2018 2:21 AM IST

    A three-day photo exhibition at Swasti Art Gallery from Vismaya Collection and the artworks were offered at cost with no monetary benefits to Vismaya artists. The exhibition was to help raise money for paediatric cancer patients who come from underprivileged backgrounds and cannot afford a cancer scan or other tests.Lifestyle
    Swasti Gallery: Healing cancer patients with art

    The exhibition has raised close to Rs 4 lakh till now and is open for another week.

    1 Jan 2018 1:16 AM IST

    A human milk bank (Representational image)Nation
    Bengaluru's first milk bank a hit

    Government-run Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health had recently demanded 2,600 ml, of which 650 ml was donated twice...

    29 Dec 2017 1:46 AM IST

    Going by the India Aging Report 2017, 9.2 per cent of Karnatakas population is elderly and of this number 5.3 per cent are either living alone or only with their spouse and have to take care of their material and physical needs on their own. (Photo: DC)Nation
    No country for old people

    A good number of its old have a hard time getting medical care or even making a living.

    28 Dec 2017 1:33 AM IST

    50 visually impaired students from the city participated in a day-long workshop Being Ready conducted last Sunday by the Department of Vision Rehabilitation, Sankara Eye Hospital and a non-government, not-for-profit voluntary organisation, Bangalore Chapter of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Young Indians.Lifestyle
    Holding out hope for the visually challenged

    The workshop also helped in creating awareness about safety from abuse at work place.

    25 Dec 2017 1:03 AM IST

    Surya Singh and his wife Anju, who have set up Save Animals India shelter at Yelahanka. (Photo: DC)Lifestyle
    For Surya Singh, his wife, family means 118 rescued dogs

    Singh's journey started three years ago with the rescue of 37 dogs from another shelter in Kengeri.

    18 Dec 2017 2:05 AM IST

    The team of Jhatkaa.org aims to draw the governments attention to issues that matter to the common manNation
    These campaigners give Jhatkaa to govt agencies to work harder

    Recently, Jhatkaa had organised a meeting on the city's air pollution.

    11 Dec 2017 4:00 AM IST

    Bengaluru being a metropolitan city, I thought that we should have such an essential service considering the disease burden,\ he said. (Photo: DC)Nation
    Meet the Bengaluru doctor with 25,000 kidney biopsy experience

    He started the journey in 2010 and facilitated Kidney Biopsy Reports for not just the entire state, but also West Bengal...

    11 Dec 2017 2:10 AM IST

    Xcode Life Sciences, a personal genomics start up based in Chennai.Nation
    Are you a 100 per cent Indian? Well, maybe not

    The ancestry test helps decode the genes and our lineage.

    8 Dec 2017 3:26 AM IST

    Kickboxer GirishSports
    Kick boxing champion beats cancer, ready for a bout

    Girish is all set to participate national championship in January 2018 in Delhi.

    6 Dec 2017 3:43 AM IST

    Nooral Islam and his 3-year-old son Ashraf. (Photo: DC)Nation
    No respite for this disabled father of cancer patient at Kidwai

    Nooral Islam, father of three-year-old Ashraf Islam from Bangladesh, is trying desperately to arrange funds for his son.

    2 Dec 2017 3:00 AM IST

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