"There is a fame epidemic," Simon Cowell, the boorish judge of television talent show competitions such as Britain's Got Talent and American Idol, once declared. You may be one of the celebrities featured in the Forbes India Celebrity 100 list and know firsthand how it feels to be famous. Perhaps a few of you would even caution us from coming down with fame, a recalcitrant bug that like zoster can...
06:58 PM, Feb 12, 2013
First Lady Betty Ford beat cancer in more ways than one. In the 1970s, when the c-word was fearfully whispered and only weeks moving into the White House, Ford announced she had cancer. Her motivation was to increase awareness to save at least one person " maybe more. She had a huge effect on early breast cancer detection, something epidemiologists call the Betty Ford blip. She went all out to...
11:45 AM, Oct 24, 2011
Is health insurance good for your health? One way to answer this would be to randomise people into a group that receives insurance and another that doesnt, and see which group is healthier over time. The only such study was done back in the 1970s by the RAND Corporation in the US. Participants were randomised into a number of insurance schemes that had zero to 95 per cent co-payments on...
12:56 PM, Oct 04, 2011
Your colleague doesn't show up when a big deliverable is due. He is not answering his phone or responding to messages and the entire team needs to scramble to make up for his absence. He claims he was ill, though he has done this a number of times before. He is witty and masterful at manipulating emotions, thus able to maintain his position at the company. We all have our...
01:00 PM, Aug 27, 2011
"I like magic bullets," Dr. Rox Anderson declared while describing the latest fat dissolving technology that he invented. Apparently so do you. In response to my previous column on the types of fats we have in the body, readers wrote asking for more ways to quickly lose weight. Principally, there are two approaches to weight loss. The first approach is called metabolic fat reduction and applies to those who have...
10:41 AM, Mar 17, 2011
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02:30 PM, Feb 18, 2011
Pomegranate contains among the highest levels of antioxidants of any fruit and has had a noteworthy career. ...
10:40 AM, Apr 06, 2010
A mobile phone emits electromagnetic radiation of the microwave frequency. ...
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