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In a crowded alleyway sandwiched between the wards of a large government hospital in New Delhi, we’re searching for a blood tout. One of the hospital’s security guards has instructed us to look for a man with one leg. We find the tout, Rajesh, sitting on a tattered blanket next to a tea stall drinking […]
As a child, who isn’t scared of needles? I bet we all feared those sharp vaccines needles that we got in our childhood. While I got one for the last time on high school, I promised myself that this would be last thing I would want to deal with. Till this date too, the thought […]
Some Asian countries, particularly Japan and South Korea, put importance on a person’s blood type, believing that it has something to do with your personality and temperament. In Japan, people use blood types to introduce themselves in class, find partners in life, and hire people for jobs. Anime and comic book characters also have blood types to […]
Revolving around ‘Blood by : Nishchhal Kharal ‘Drink a glass of water and come to room no 18’, said the nurse with a white coat.The day was old then. Nurses and staffs were packing up. The nurse with curly hair gave a “Lion Look”, when I had come and started to fill the form of ‘Blood […]
NEHA KARL MONDAY, 27 OCTOBER 2014 Using just two tablespoons of blood, scientists have managed to grow a brand new blood vessel in a week – revolutionising the method used for creating new tissue with stem cells. Image: science photo/Shutterstock Three years ago, a patient who was missing the vein that connects the gastrointestinal […]
Did you know that you can reduce your risk of heart disease and save a life at the same time? That’s right! According to studies published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, blood donors are 88% less likely to suffer a heart attack and 33% less likely to suffer any type of cardiovascular […]
photo credit: jomilo75, “Tiger tops,” via Flickr. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Individuals with a rare blood type may have an increased risk of developing memory problems later in life, new research has found. According to the study, which has been published in Neurology, people with AB blood were almost twice as likely to develop cognitive impairment as individuals with […]
Many of us have been victims of blood shortage when our near and dear ones need it the most. We rush to blood bank located at Bhrikutimandap just to hear that there is shortage of the blood group that we need. Then we stand there calling our friends, relatives to donate blood. Thanks to Rotary […]