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According to reports, the Chandigarh government has decided to spend around Rs 48 crore during the existing financial year to promote facilities and infrastructure in subsisting schools.

Moreover, the report also said that the administration will also set up new schools in the union territory.

Researchers have created and successfully examined a new sensor, which can detect Type-I diabetes instantaneously.

The novel device could also be utilized by doctors in the emergency room to check whether a patient has developed diabetic ketoacidosis.

In the coming time, the technology may also be used by diabetes sufferers, in their own homes, to check whether they need more insulin or not.

A new study has revealed that patients turned less sexually active after suffering a heart attack, particularly if they don't get instructions from physicians regarding when it is safe to restart sex.

During the research of 1,184 men and 576 women heart attack sufferers, around half the males and about a third of females reported receiving discharge instructions on restarting their sex lives.

The study reported that less than 40% of men and less than 20% of females discussed sex with their doctors in the year following their heart failure.

Around 30 pupils reported feelings of nausea after consuming iron pills at a school in Amritsar on Friday.

The incident occurred at the Government Senior Secondary School situated in the neighborhood of Hakima Gate in Amritsar.

The young pupils complained of sharp pain in the stomach. Some vomited after taking the medications.

School authorities swung into action and admitted the children to the Civil Hospital.

Observers have said that stung by criticism and ridicule, Texas educators voted to reinstate Thomas Jefferson to the state's study curriculum after earlier deleting him.

The Dallas Morning News reported on Friday that the deletion of Jefferson, the U. S. founding father who was the principal writer of the Declaration of Independence and the third president whose belief in the separation of church and state was anathema to conservative members of the Texas State Board of Education, had generated a firestorm of debate and criticism of the board.

US drug major Abbott Laboratories has acquired the domestic business of India-based Piramal Healthcare for about 3.7 billion dollars.

Fending off fight from other drug biggies such as Britain's GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi Aventis and Pfizer, Abbott bagged the auction bid for Piramal Healthcare.

The deal reflects the heightened interest Western firms have displayed in the speedily growing Indian drug market.