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One third of India is depressed: Time we start talking about it: Shubhra Dixit
Among the many problems an average Indian has to navigate through the course of her life, depression is depicted as a made up problem of the leisured class. WhileWHO estimates that roughly 36% of...
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Doctors And Hospitals Are Playing With Lives For Profit, Say Authors Of...
In their book Dissenting Diagnosis, doctors and activists Abhay Shukla and Arun Gadre give us a chilling inside account of widespread malpractices afflicting the healthcare industry. The nexus between...
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Not following a regulated eating schedule is another common form of health abuse
The human body is built to be resilient but to not give it due respect is to set it up for revolt VANI B. PAHWA The human body has evolved over time to become what it is today, a complicated...
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Medanta specialist says need to generate more awareness about varicose veins
Gurugram: A senior specialist at Medanta The Medicity Hospital Gurgaon, Haryana, has said that people suffering from varicose veins should not ignore this problem, and therefore, should be made more...
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New artificial kidneys to simplify dialysis process
Washington: Researchers have developed a wearable artificial kidney which simplifies the dialysis process in people with end-stage kidney disease. Under the current technology patients need three...
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Smoking weakens spine, causes spine infections: Experts
New Delhi: Smoking weakens the spine and thus further leads to several types of diseases including infection in the spine, health experts warned here on Friday. According to the experts, smoking...
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More Doctors Confessing To Intentionally Diagnosing Healthy People With...
Dr. Farid Fata, a prominent cancer doctor in Michigan who admitted in court one year ago to intentionally and wrongfully diagnosing healthy people with cancer. Fata also admitted to giving them...
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Experts: Children needs outdoor play more than ever, screen addiction must be...
A group of leading authors, educationalists and child-development experts is calling on the government to introduce national guidelines on the use of screens, amid concern about the impact on...
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The Rise In C-Sections Could Be Changing Human Evolution
C-sections have been on the rise for decades, now making up more than 30 percent of all deliveries in the United States. An intriguing new study out of Austria suggests that as C-sections have become...
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Homeopathy ‘treatments’ must be labelled to say they do not work, US...
There is a huge market in the US for homeopathic remedies. In 2007 alone, it was estimated Americans spent more than $3bn on a controversial system of alternative medicine created in 1796 by Samuel...
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Bill Gates warns world “vulnerable” to deadly epidemic in next decade
LONDON: Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates warned on Friday that the world was vulnerable to a deadly epidemic of an illness like flu, with the recent Ebola and Zika outbreaks underlining...
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Study: Smoking will kill eight million a year by 2030
Study conducted with US National Cancer Institute says 80 percent of deaths occur in low and middle-income countries Smoking will kill more than eight million people a year by 2030, according to a...
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Work-life balance ‘increasingly stressful for fathers’
Nearly half of working fathers would like a less stressful job so they can spend more time caring for their children, a study has found. About a third would take a pay cut to achieve a better...
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Baby not burping? This 10 point formula may help make your baby burp
Are you worried by seeing your baby getting uncomfortable and fussy after being fed? The fussiness and uneasiness of your baby may be because of lack of proper digestion and trapped gas in the stomach...
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Indian children died after eating lychees on empty stomach
US and Indian scientists say a mystery illness that killed more than 100 children a year in northern India was caused by eating lychees on an empty stomach. For more than two decades, apparently...
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Learning from kangaroos: How skin-to-skin contact with parents saves newborn...
Carmela Torres was 18 when she became pregnant for the first time. It was 1987 and she and her now-husband, Pablo Hernandez, were two idealistic young Colombians born in the coastal region of Montería...
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At Least 64 Children Died Every Day In Madhya Pradesh In 2016
At least 64 children below the age of six died every day in the last year in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh, and its infant mortality rate is worse that some African countries. The government was forced to...
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Antibiotics linked to double the risk of miscarriage in early pregnancy
Antibiotics can double the risk of miscarriage if taken during early pregnancy, a new study suggests. A major review involving more than 95,000 women has found five common classes of the drug were...
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3D cell printer tipped to be ‘game changer’ in preventing osteoarthritis
Australian surgeons hope to prevent the onset of osteoarthritis in patients by using 3D technology to print live cells to repair damage to bones, muscles, tendons and tissue in organs. The Aikenhead...
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Indian Doctors Only Spend 2 Minutes With Patients, Which Is Among The Worst...
The length of medical consultation, also called as primary care consultancy, on an average is 2 minutes in India, a study has revealed. The study published in medical journal, BMJ Open, which is the...
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