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  • ‘Vital Signs with Dr. Sanjay Gupta’ unearths the connection between happiness and well-being in Bhutan

    ‘Vital Signs with Dr. Sanjay Gupta’ unearths the connection between happiness and well-being in Bhutan

    MUMBAI: High in the Himalayas is Bhutan — a country unlike any other, where tradition reigns supreme, and where their leader is letting medicine be his guide.

    Dr. Lotay Tshering is a practicing surgeon, who also happens to be the country's third democratically-elected prime minister. He has put healthcare at the centre of a government best known for measuring its wealth in terms of happiness, not money.

    Bhutan prioritizes what many researchers now recognize as a key element to wellness and longevity – happiness. In fact, the country’s central values centre on compassion, kindness and happiness.

    This month in a special 30-minute episode ‘Vital Signs with Dr. Sanjay Gupta’ spends a week with Dr. Lotay in one of the most stunning countries on earth, for a special look at a place long hidden from view and now in the steady hands of a surgeon.

  • CNN’s vital signs with Dr. Sanjay Gupta

    CNN’s vital signs with Dr. Sanjay Gupta

    MUMBAI: CNN’s Vital Signs is a half-hour monthly program that educates and enlightens viewers around the world about the latest topics, trends and discoveries in health, wellness and medicine, hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent. Engage with medical pioneers and leaders of the health profession, on the cutting edge of their field. Be informed about your own health and global medical breakthroughs, and how they could impact your life. The health and medical field affects us all – no matter what country you live in or what language you speak. CNN’s Vital Signs with Dr. Sanjay Gupta airs on CNN International this week on Saturday, March 22 at 1000 IST, Sunday, March 23 at 1800 IST and next week on Saturday, March 29 IST at 1800 and Sunday, March 30 IST.

     

    In the first episode, Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the world of 3D printing in the medical field. Imagine a world with no organ transplant waiting list, or no chance of the body rejecting an organ or implant. The solution could come from a simple printer – a 3D printer – that prints layers of human cells instead of ink, and could change the face of medicine forever. From human organs to prosthetics, see how this revolutionary technology could change medicine as we know it.

  • CNN’s global warning: Planet In Peril

    MUMBAI: CNN will air a two-part special series Planet In Peril on 24 and 25 October at 6:30 pm. The show which took nearly a year to make takes viewers to four continents and 13 countries where environmental change is not a theory, or possibility, but a crisis happening in real time. Filmed in high-definition, this four-hour documentary tackles the threats to the world’s environment.

    Bringing viewers the stories behind the statistics, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, chief medical correspondent Dr Sanjay Gupta and Animal Planet host and wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin will focus on four main issues that threaten the planet and its inhabitants: climate change, deforestation, species loss and overpopulation.

    Broadcast to a combined audience of more than 300 hundred million households on CNN International and CNN/US with an in-depth companion site on www.cnn.com/planetinperil, the documentary brings first-hand accounts of environmental strife as Cooper, Corwin and Gupta travel across the globe to explore these changes and reveal what they mean for each region and the world at large.

    Cooper and Corwin travelled to Brazil to examine connections between the rapid deforestation of the Amazon River Basin and changes in the world’s climate, embedding with “poacher police” amid raids of illegal logging camps. In Thailand and Cambodia, they walk the markets where endangered animals are bought and sold to find out how their removal can affect entire ecosystems. Additionally, they travelled to Greenland to report on its melting ice sheet, where Cooper witnessed one of the world’s newest islands, discovered when the ice receded.

    Taking viewers beyond the broad headlines, Corwin visits Alaska to help viewers understand how North America’s largest carnivore, the polar bear, is quickly losing its habitat and exists at the edge of extinction. Cooper and Corwin report from Yellowstone Park to show how park officials reintroduce species to their native environment.

    With his extensive medical expertise, Gupta brings a deep understanding of the environmental pressures on the human population. In China, Gupta examines how the world’s most populous nation consumes its natural resources and the toll it takes on its people and the entire world. He also reports from Central Africa to show how climate change is drying up one of the world’s largest lakes and the impact that is having on a region already in crisis.

  • Dr. Sanjay Gupta & Lance Armstrong team up for cancer special

    MUMBAI: In a powerful hour of informative and inspirational conversation, CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Tour de France champion and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong join forces to discuss the killer disease that touches everyone in some way: cancer.

    Also joining saving your life are renowned cancer experts, Dr. Harold Freeman, associate director of the US National Cancer Institute and medical director of the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention, and Dr. Jim Hotz, an expert on rural health care and cancer whose story inspired the movie Doc Hollywood. The panel also features dedicated individuals who devote their time to educate their community in better understanding cancer.

    The special program also includes the following segments:

    · A discussion with Armstrong, Freeman and cancer survivor and magazine editor Clifton Leaf in which they conclude that the lives of hundreds of thousands cancer victims could be saved through the application of current knowledge about cancer;

    · A profile of Baker and Terrell Counties in southwest Georgia, which hold some of the highest cancer rates and colon cancer death rates in the nation;

    · A profile of a young African-American woman with breast cancer and of Freeman, who designed a “navigator” system to help Harlem women with breast cancer have a better chance of survival;

    · A profile of a young Colorado boy with a rare bone cancer and a look at the issues of childhood cancers and orphan drugs;

    · A profile of a man who thought he had beaten cancer only to learn months later the cancer had spread. Gupta, Armstrong and Leaf examine the relative lack of funding for metastatic cancer, the most deadly form of the disease;

    · An exclusive look at Armstrong’s MRI images revealing the two large tumors that almost killed the man now synonymous with cancer survival.

    “This is an exclusive opportunity to hear from some of the most distinguished members of the medical community about their advice on how to avoid and beat cancer,” Gupta said. “It’s also a testament to those survivors who can offer firsthand advice that can save lives”

    Airtimes: Indian Standard Times

    Sat, January 13 at 1230hrs and 2030hrs

    Sun, January 14 at 1230hrs

    CNN is the world’s leading global 24-hour news network and one of the world’s most respected and trusted sources for news and information. The CNN brand is available to two billion people via 25 CNN branded TV, internet and mobile services produced by CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System Inc and a Time Warner company.

    CNN International is the international directorate of CNN Worldwide and distributes news via 14 services in seven different languages. CNN International can be seen in almost 200 million television households and hotel rooms in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, including more than 30 million across the Asia Pacific region and online at www.cnn.com/international.

  • CNN unveils ‘Paging Dr. Gupta’ blog

    CNN unveils ‘Paging Dr. Gupta’ blog

    MUMBAI: News broadcaster CNN International says that in an attempt to answer the call for more consumer-friendly health and medical news, CNN senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta and CNN’s Medical Unit has launched the Paging Dr. Gupta” blog on CNN.com. The blog offers be a behind-the-scenes look at the latest medical news stories while providing insights on current health and medical trends.

    CNN’s Medical Unit director Carol Kinstle says, “Sanjay’s style of reporting is simple, factual and engaging and has earned him credibility with his audience director. It’s only natural to extend that same rapport across CNN’s digital platforms with the launch of this blog.”

    Gupta’s new blog stands as one new feature of a revamped CNN.com Health section, located at CNN.com/Health. The page offers Gupta’s work a more prominent placement with easier access to his videos, podcasts and special reports, which are also available at www.CNN.com/Health/blogs/paging.dr.gupta/. Through partnerships with Heathology, a leading online producer of physician-generated medical and health information, and with MayoClinic.com, an award-winning consumer health and medical information site, CNN.com and the CNN Medical Unit will be able to provide even more health-related news and important, practical health information to viewers and online users.

    Dr. Sanjay Gupta is senior medical correspondent for the health and medical unit at CNN. Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon and an assistant professor of neurosurgery, plays an integral role in the network’s medical coverage, which includes daily packages, the half-hour weekend show House Call with Dr. Sanjay Gupta and coverage of breaking medical news.

  • CNN special reveals the connect between happiness and health

    CNN special reveals the connect between happiness and health

    MUMBAI: News broadcaster CNN will air the special Happpiness And Your Health: The Surprising Connection on 9 December at 1230 pm, 8:30 pm and on 10 December at 1230 pm.

    CNN senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta joins the eternal search for happiness. Talking with doctors, philosophers, teachers, business leaders and comedians, Dr. Gupta asks where happiness comes from, how to get it and whether people need it.

    Joined by guests including US comedian Richard Lewis Curb Your Enthusiasm and motivational speaker Tony Robbins, Dr. Gupta reveals the surprising secrets of happy people, the ways in which happiness affects health and the intriguing results of an exclusive CNN poll.

    ‘Born Happy’ – Happiness experts say that personality has deep roots in genetics. The programme features identical twins who despite growing up without knowing of each other’s existence for 25 years, noticed more than a few similarities when they first

    ‘Power of Laughter’ – “Laughing is halfway to healing” is the motto of laughter yoga. This movement, created by a Mumbai doctor, today claims more than 3,000 clubs in 40 countries. Dr. Gupta laughs along with a club in California, finding intricate links between happiness and health.

    ‘Unnatural Highs’ – Psychiatrist Julie Holland and Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the US, explain the effects that drugs – legal and illegal – have on the brain and compare these effects to natural highs.

    ‘How to be Happy’ – Viewers will hear surprising research into what really makes people happy, as well as a life lesson from someone who found himself paralysed in a car accident at the age of 29, and who subsequently suffered the deaths of his second wife, sister and parents, yet emerged from those struggles happier and wiser than ever.

    Dr. Gupta says, “There is more than one route to happiness and well-being. This special will take viewers on a journey and hopefully help them live happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives.”

  • CNN to examine sleep and dreams

    CNN to examine sleep and dreams

    MUMBAI: News channel CNN delves deep into the realm of sleep and dreams this month. The documentary CNN Presents Sleep airs on 13 May at 11 30 am and 7 30 pm and on 14 May at 11 30 am. The programme will be hosted by CNN’s senior medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

    Sleep reveals what sleep deprivation can do and its links to accidents. Dr. Gupta then explores various sleep disorders including ‘Parasomnia’, a condition where the mind is asleep but the body continues to move.

    Using the latest scientific techniques, Sleep sees researchers debate whether dreams are random or if they pose any significant influence on waking life. Dr. Gupta examines the meaning of dreams in past and present cultures.