Mumbai: Cricketer Yuvraj Singh's battle against cancer has put the spotlight once again on the disease that claims 20,000 lives a day worldwide. The question is whether India is well equipped to battle the world's biggest killer. Diagnosed with germ cell cancer, cricketer Yuvraj Singh is currently undergoing chemotherapy in the United States. While it is a shocking news for his fans, but a cancer diagnosis in the 30s is...
07:22 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Mumbai: Life in the fast lane, fuelled by fast food and typical every day urban habits are your worst enemy. A new study by pharma company Sanofi, done on 16,000 people across eight states finds that one in five Indian adults in the metros suffers from both diabetes and hypertension. But it's worse in Maharashtra - one in three people suffer both hypertension and diabetes. Senior Endocrinologist, Lilavati Hospital Dr...
08:37 AM, Nov 09, 2011
New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research is now taking up a large scale research to study if probiotics can be an used as an alternative medicine for women and children's health. The Rs 20.6 million industry in India, has been quite a rage since probiotic products hit store shelves five years ago. One can pick from curd (already a natural probiotic product), tofu, milk, even get their ice-cream...
09:54 AM, Aug 08, 2011
New Delhi: The recent flurry of reports suggesting that Indians are the most depressed in the world has the Health Ministry up in arms, clarifying that only some data has been released from a World Health Organisation-sponsored study. The WHO's Mental Health Survey of nearly 90,000 people across 18 countries seemed to have shocking findings for India allegedly showing the highest level of depression worldwide. The survey found that 36...
05:02 PM, Jul 30, 2011
New Delhi: Advertised as 'powerhouses of energy' to 'giving you wings', Energy Drinks are now under the scanner for having abnormally high levels of caffeine, much more than prescribed by the government. With people complaining of stress, anxiety and exhaustion, energy drinks claim to offer the perfect drug and are more popular with the youth today, than ever before. This is an alarming trend that might end with trips to...
09:32 AM, Jul 23, 2011
Cases reported from US, Canada and Mexico, Indian Health authorities on alert. ...
11:16 PM, Apr 27, 2009
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