— PTI   He performed abortions well beyond five months into pregnancy   A doctor in Maharashtra has been arrested for allegedly carrying out three illegal abortions, the police said on Sunday. Shivaji Sanap, who runs a private maternity clinic on Jalna Road in the city, has been booked under various Sections of the Indian Penal Code; the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act; and the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act for performing abortions well...

-The Hindu Emphasising the medically proven links between malnutrition and sanitation, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking his support in sustaining a hike in the 12th Five Year Plan's allocation for drinking water and sanitation. In his letter, Mr. Ramesh has referenced a 2009 article from medical journal The Lancet , which shows that a key cause of child undernutrition is a sub-clinical disorder...

-Daily Bhaskar Indore: Thousands of tribals on Friday staged a dharna at Silawad police station in Badwani district to protest the district administration’s notice of externment against noted activist Madhuri Krishnaswami. The tribals said it is the district administration that deserved to be externed for resorting to unconstitutional step against Madhuri Ben. The move has sparked protests across the state. Tribals have now started serving “externment (zila badar) notices” to the collector and...

-The Economic Times It is not malaria or TB that will be the cause of large number of deaths in the world, Cancer is on its way to become one the deadliest diseases in the coming decades, according to a research paper published in medical journal Lancet. The study lead by Dr Freddy Bay of International Agency for Research on Cancer, France,predicts that the number of cancer patients in the world is...

A 26-year-old man from Hooghly who lost his tongue to cancer in a Mumbai hospital last week has lent his voice to a public health campaign urging the Bengal government to ban the sale of gutka laced with tobacco. Mantu Mahato, who was diagnosed with advanced tongue cancer earlier this year, five years after he started chewing gutka, has written a letter to chief minister Mamata Banerjee urging her to ban...