More than friend, mentor and guides, most gurus in India function as the friendly neighbourhood psychiatric clinic.
They may not be the biggest killers, but animal plagues have gained cult status as one of the biggest threats to human survival, alongwith climate change and alien invasion.
Indians get their first heart attack at 53 - six years earlier than the world average of 59 years. And with the number of people over 65 years jumping from 4.4% in 2000 to 7.6% in 2025, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity and other non-infectious diseases will become the country's major health challenges, warns a new World Bank report.
Time to share the Wii remote, dad. A new research shows that playing video games with a parent improved family ties and made the girls better behaved.
Besides adding years to your face, droopy eyelids can cause eyestrain, discomfort while wearing contact lenses, and, in severe cases, impaired vision.
Here’s validation for those convinced Valentine’s Day is among the world’s biggest marketing gimmicks along with Las Vegas and Disney World.
Finally, a cure for forgetfulness is in sight. Studies in rats showed that a protein-like molecule that occurs naturally in the human brain during memory formation enhanced some types of memories, reports a study in the journal Nature.
The year 2011 could well be the year of the girl child who almost made it. In a depressing start to the year, three girls were found abandoned — two newborns and a seven-year-old — and one dead after being dumped alive in an open drain within hours of her birth.
Three controversial drugs — nimesulide, suspension to treat pain and fever in children, cisapride for stomach acid reflux, and phenylpropanolamine (PPA), a component of popular cold and cough syrups — have been declared unsafe by the Union health ministry's Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB) and will be banned.
Failure to block out irrelevant background motion, and not poor reflexes, is the reason why older people, patients of depression and schizophrenia are poor drivers, shows new research by American scientists. Charu Sudan Kasturi reports.
Governments should crack on the advertising of junk food to children, recommended the World Health Organisation yesterday as part of a global strategy to tackle non-infectious diseases -- such as obesity, heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes –that cause 90% of premature deaths in poor and not-so-poor countries such as India.
Kanav Aggarwal was diagnosed with thalassaemia 16 years ago, his father Atul, now 47, visited almost all the big hospitals in the country in hope of finding treatment for his son.
Scientists claim to have for the first time caught malaria parasites in the act of invading red blood cells, a major breakthrough which could pave the way for developing more effective treatments for the disease.
Exploding with anger at someone who grazed your fender is highly irrational. Even more deviant is trying to run someone over for tailgating or refusing to give you parking space.
At 9 am thrice a week, costume designer Shirley Daver, 35, makes her way to her fitness class in Santacruz, Mumbai. She changes into tracks and warms up before instructor Lavina Khanna begins a pole-dance workout. “It’s like dancing, and you don’t even realise you’re losing weight,” says Daver.