Heart patients suffer massive price hikes
Doctors and manufacturers seem unperturbed by the ever-increasing price of Acetrome, a drug for heart valve transplant patients.
What a bloody mess
When the Ebola virus broke on April 10 this year, the scientific world went into a tizzy? It's uncontrollable, it's the big daddy of horror movies,…
Can the Grim Reaper wait, please?
A timeless dream: eternal youth, unblemished by illness. The search for the font of immortality has taken a late 20th century turn into what …
Small invasions
A new surgical technique that involving only small incisions has been used for removing a cyst from under the lung
Lifting heart's burden
Heart diseases have been on the rise in the recent past but now a new research says that the trends can be reversed
Watch your waistline
Hormone replacement therapy after menopause could lower the risk of getting heart diseases, advocates' a new study
Panacea?
Vitamin E gives protection against heart disease and slows the ageing process, among other benefits
Anticipating strokes
Will you suffer a heart failure or a paralytic stroke? A laboratory test can tell you years before it happens and help you avert it
Temperamental disease
Patients who are hypertensive inside a doctor's clinic are more likely to develop heart diseases
Aye for an eye
Transplanting light-sensitive cells of aborted human foetuses into retinas of blind adults can enable them to see again
A pinch of salt, anyone?
If you are health-conscious, you will politely decline the offer. But what do the experts have to say?
Cutting clots
These clot busters can be an enormous help to medical science, helping those prone to vascular diseases
South-east Asia resolves to combat non-communicable diseases
Countries target to reduce mortality from lifestyle diseases by a quarter by 2025
Science
Kerala is on high alert as West Nile Virus cases reported from Kozhikode, Thrissur, Malappuram
State recorded outbreak in the past & there is no reason to panic, says Health Minister Veena George
Diabetes among senior citizens more prevalent in urban India: LASI report
11.5% Indians above 45 years have high blood sugar
Fever stalks UP
Battling Japanese encephalitis virus, Gorakhpur now has a new enemy: enterovirus
Particles in our body
Minute particles have a lethal effect on human health
Clean measures
Kathmandu's growing air pollution forces authorities to enforce strict regulations
A time-bomb ticking
Urbanised problem
Suburban lifestyle is the cause behind numerous diseases, research authenticates
Valid excuse
A new chikungunya strain
The dawn of pollution
Death is in the air
Air quality in Indian cities has never been worse. More and more people are dying in urban India due to high levels of pollutants in the air. The …