The latest in research confirms what I knew all along: That a kidney donor is as healthy as the rest of us. A person who has voluntarily donated a kidney lives just as long and are as healthy as others who have a kidney. Their risk of landing  up with kidney failure, cancer, high blood [...]

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Sunjay Dutt’s comment about his sister Priya is now increasing the heat in the election fray. He says, ”Women should not stick to their father’s surname after marriage just for the sake of fashion. It will be a disrespect for their husbands if they do so. They must give up the father’s surname and adopt the [...]

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Another case of a doctor being manhandled, nay almost murdered. The saga of intolerance continues. (Read) If a doctor is really negligent, there are ways and means of seeking redemption. There is a legal mechanism- one can approach the professional bodies. So where are we going wrong? Why do relatives of patients resort to violence [...]

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I am the child of a Central Government employee. And all through my childhood I knew that my new home, school and my group of friends would be there with me only for the next five or six years. Timely transfers were a fact of life. And so while I traipsed the length and breadth [...]

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