Mangaluru: A culturally inclined group of people, Naguva Nagisuva Geleyaru (Nanage), has stepped out to create awareness against cancer, will unravel it through Yakshagana with the prasanga ‘Arbudasura Garvabanga’ at Sri Nandaneshwara Temple, Panambur, on Sunday. Nanage, is planning to stage this Yakshagana in association with the Mangaluru branch of Indian Medical Association, as part of […]

Mangalore : The State government will launch a World Bank-funded pilot project on preventing non-communicable diseases in the State in Dakshina Kannada and Davangere districts on October 7, according to U.T. Khader, Minister for Health and Family Welfare. Some of these non-communicable diseases are diabetes, hypertension and cancer. Addressing presspersons here on Thursday, he said […]

Mangalore : An innovative Laparoscopic Surgery was performed by the Eminent Laparoscopic Surgeon Dr. Roshan Shetty on a 47 year old lady hailing from Kalianpur at City Hospital Mangalore. It is reported that, it is the first of its kind of innovative life saving surgery performed on a cancer patient in the medical history of […]

Mangalore : The KMC Hospital will be offering  tertiary care facilities to children diagnosed with cancer  through the new Paediatric Haematology Oncology Department. Informing this to reporters, Medical Superintendent of the hospital Dr Anand Venugopal said children suffering from cancer which can be cured should not be ignored and should get proper treatment. He said […]

Mangalore : Her name is  Celine D’Souza, She is 56. It has been a year since  she was diagnosed with oral cancer. Since then her life has been shattered and she is in dire need of financial help to cure her of the dreaded disease. Celine, a resident of Faisalnagar in Bajal Veeranagar, had fainted  […]

Mangalore : Unity Health Complex has performed the first Key Hole Liver Surgery recently said Dr Ashfaque Mohammed. Addressing the media at the press meet held at Press Club on June 14, Friday, he said that a 72 year old female weighing 90 kgs, on routine ultrasound abdomen was diagnosed to have liver cancer. On […]

Mumbai: India has the worst cellular tower radiation norms in the world. But from Saturday new guidelines are being implemented. Cellular towers will have to reduce the amount of radiation they emit to 1/10th of the current level. But is the new limit sufficient to reduce serious health risks, given that most countries in the […]

Washington: Sally Ride, who blazed trails into orbit as the first American woman in space, died Monday of pancreatic cancer. She was 61. Ride died at her home in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla, said Terry McEntee, a spokeswoman for her company, Sally Ride Science. She was a private person and the details […]

Mangalore: Mangalore Institute of Oncology, Pumpwell, will be organizing an Anti-Tobacco Campaign Rally in Mangalore on June 3, Sunday.  This rally is being held to create awareness on the adverse effects of Tobacco consumption which is claiming thousands of precious lives in India and around the globe. Dr Jalaluddin Akbar, Managing Director of the MIO, […]

Mangalore: Bovikana Manohar Nayak (50) of Nayak Automobiles passed away at KMC Hospital Attavara in city, on Friday in (February 17) morning. He was treated for cancer for the last 10 months. He studied at St. Aloysius’ College. He was running a family business at Felix Pai Bazaar in market are. He conducted advertising through […]