Tag Archives: medicine

India Swine Flu Helpline Details & Contact Information

With the first swine flu death reported in my city of Pune, I thought I’d pro­vide some Swine Flu related infor­ma­tion spe­cific to India.
Swine Flu India is the cen­tral web­site for all infor­ma­tion and updates.

The Min­istry of Health and Fam­ily Wel­fare has an infor­ma­tion page for Swine Flu.
This MS Word doc­u­ment sup­plied on the above page …

August 4, 2009 – 7:14 PM | By Mahendra | Posted in India, Travel, society | Tagged , , , , | Comments (5)

Research Highlights from India

When I was young, there was a spate of Indian sci­en­tists com­mit­ting sui­cide. It had made the cover story of some dis­tin­guished mag­a­zines. It made me think of how sci­en­tists are a rel­a­tively ignored lot in our pri­mar­ily reli­gious and super­sti­tious coun­try. I never could do much for their cause, and hence use my blog …

October 5, 2007 – 11:40 AM | By Mahendra | Posted in India, Science | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (7)