Since 2011, pulses, dry rotis and vegetable juices have replaced pizzas, burgers and colas in 31-year-old Nikalank Jain’s meal box.
Sahil Jha (name changed), 14, spent almost three hours every day on social networking websites and online gaming. When he was not chatting online, he would watch television shows and play virtual cricket on his playstation.
Last month, a Lokhandwala-based businessman shot himself in the head after being bedridden for more than six months on account of a gangrene on his foot.
India has halved new HIV infections. The best way forward is to stamp out infections altogether by changing restrictive laws that drive people away from AIDS services.
Sanchita Sharma writes.
Health scanAll little girls do it, put on mum’s stilettos, beads and lipstick to pout at the mirror and make-believe they are sophisticated adults. For most little girls, it ends the moment mum walks in and shoos them away to wear sensible shoes and wash off the war-paint. Sanchita Sharma writes.
Exposing children to germs could make them healthier, say scientists, underlining once again why allergies, asthma, and other inflammatory diseases have increased among people who have grown up in cleaner and more sterile environments.
Two Merck drugs for treating male baldness and enlarged prostate will now carry extended labels to add more possible sexual side effects, US regulators said.
Brides desperately starving themselves to look their smallest for their ‘Big Day’ are now opting for emaciation options more outlandish than the alien regulars at the intergalactic Mos Eisley Cantina in Star Wars.
A Songkran (Baisakhi) break in Vietnam had me on a hectic trail by plane, boat, road and train. I noticed that puppies are farmed like chickens there. A Songkran (Baisakhi) break in Vietnam had me on a hectic trail by plane, boat, road and train. I noticed that puppies are farmed like chickens there. Renuka Narayanan writes.
From getting the boss on board to rounding up colleagues for a warm-up, here are some tips on circulating energy in office.
Taking sleeping pills frequently can increase the risk of premature death more than five-fold a new study has warned.
Ilias Ali of Assam quotes from holy texts to persuade husbands to accept sterilisation without the fear of stigma and allays concerns about their sexual health, one snip at a time. Rahul Karmakar reports.
We all use numbers every day, but the people who seem to be having the most fun with them are epidemiologists. Over the past few years, estimates for almost all major killer infections - HIV that causes AIDS, tuberculosis, bird flu, swine flu, to name a just few - have been swinging between what can best be described as bipolar extremes.
India has unhealthiest air in the world, a new study says, confirming the fear that air quality was getting worse because of urbanisation. Of the 132 countries ranked by scientists at Yale and Columbia Universities for the Environment Performance Index (EPI) 2012, India ranks dead last on the parameter - Air (effects on human health) - much behind neighbours such as China, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh.