Weight-watchers will now have a tough mission on hand. The country’s fitness measurements have become learner recently with the new guidelines which state that 80 million Indians are overweight.

Americans have been getting fatter for years, and with the increase in waistlines has come a surplus of conventional wisdom. If we could just return to traditional diets, if we just walk for 20 minutes a day, exercise gurus and government officials maintain, America’s excess pounds would slowly but surely melt away.

A new study from the University of Califor¬nia in Los Angeles suggests that piling on the pounds can shrink the brains of older people, making them more vulnerable to cognitive problems.

OVER the last decade or so, the concept of the 'family physician' has been dying a slow death. With the burgeoning of multi-speciali¬ty tertiary care hospitals, patients now consult a specialist for every minor ache and pain and end up waiting several hours and spending huge sums for what may be a simple illness.

Chennai: A project to give opportunity for women to undergo free medical check-up was launched on Sunday by the Rotary International Dist.3230.

CHENNAI: A public-private partnership is helping people in far-flung rural pockets to access quality healthcare at no cost at all.

March 8: A ‘hospital on wheels' has been taking medical care and 'wellness education’ to the doorsteps of villagers in the state.

Lifeline Hospitals conduct free camps and counselling sessions based on specific themes, every month. Currently, sessions on countering exam blues, with a nominal registration fee is going on. March would be a month full of wellness programmes for women

CHENNAI: Lifeline group of hospitals has embarked on a new venture the family physician centre. The first of such centres started in Vettu-vankeni on East Coast Road over two months ago has been successful, according to hos¬pital chairman J.S. Rajkumar.

Lifeline, a city-based group of health care centres, has acquired one hospital and 15 clinics in Karur, Namakkal, Erode and Coimbatore. There are plans to network the health care units in a hub-and-spokes model, Lifeline medical director Dr J S Rajkumar said on Wednesday.

Chicago: Genetically engi¬neered stem cells from bone marrow showed promise as a potential new way to deliver a cancer-killing protein to tu¬mors, British researchers said on Tuesday.

Chennai: Hospitals in Chennai are teaming up with neigh¬bourhood family physicians for group practices that they hope will not just reduce the waiting time of patients with minor ailments at multi-specialty hospitals,

Mumbai: In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court on Tuesday stepped in to check the harassment of doctors in medical negligence cases. A division Bench, comprising Justice Markandey Katju and Justice G.S. Singhvi,

Adyar has a fair share of diagnostic centres. The mix includes popular multi-specialty hospitals that have their own diagnostic wings pertaining to the areas they specialize in and there are also hospitals that have outsourced their diagnostic unit to established centres.

SOOTHING TOUCH: Palliative care concentrates on reducing the Severity of disease symptoms i.e, reducing the pain associated with the disease.

A doctor cannot straightway be held liable for medical negligence simply because a patient has not fa¬vourably responded to treat¬ment or surgery has failed, the Supreme Court has held.

Mumbai: In a landmark judg¬ment, the Supreme Court on Tuesday stepped in to check the harassment of doctors in med¬ical negligence cases. A division Bench, comprising Justice Markandey Katju and Justice GS Singhvi,