Origins of Pandemics / How Nature, Humans and Climate Shape the Next Global Threat
27 May 2026, 21:02 PM
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Ebola moves fast. So must we.
24 May 2026, 00:00 AM
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The new prescription - Technology with empathy
24 May 2026, 00:00 AM
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Tiny Pouches, Big Danger: Youth targeted in nicotine boom
24 May 2026, 00:00 AM
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Interview / The diseases people feel too embarrassed to discuss
23 May 2026, 13:13 PM
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Chrononutrition: Why meal timing matters more than you think
17 May 2026, 02:51 AM
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You don’t have PCOS, but you have PMOS
17 May 2026, 00:00 AM
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As measles spreads, vitamin A emerges as a lifesaving shield
17 May 2026, 00:00 AM
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Gaining weight over the years? Your body may remember
17 May 2026, 00:00 AM
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Long drives, aching backs: the growing problem drivers ignore
17 May 2026, 00:00 AM
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Dealing with motion sickness
People are often seen nauseating in their journey. It is a common condition that we all experience during our travel through car, bus and train. Sailors and travellers have suffered from motion sickness since the earliest times. Before, it was only known to travellers of sea and is frequently mentioned as sea sickness in Greek and Roman texts.
2 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Gonorrhoea 'could become untreatable'
Gonorrhoea can become an untreatable disease, England's chief medical officer has warned.
27 December 2015, 05:37 AM
How animals can give you tuberculosis
In 2014, an estimated 9.6 million people were infected by tuberculosis, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Potentially
26 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Symptoms of chronic kidney disease
Most people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have no symptoms because the body can tolerate even a large reduction in kidney
26 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Many benefits of oats
What better way to gain the strength and energy to carry you through a hectic morning schedule than with a steaming bowl of freshly
26 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Physiotherapy in urinary incontinence
Do you leak urine when you cough, sneeze, or laugh? Do you limit your time away from home, know where all the bathrooms are in the
26 December 2015, 18:00 PM
From MDGs to SDGs
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently launched a new comprehensive analysis of global health trends since 2000 and an
26 December 2015, 18:00 PM
How smartphone light affects your brain and body
Checking your phone at night and before going to sleep seems like a normal habitual act, but it is some harmful than you think.
26 December 2015, 05:03 AM
Bar children from high-impact sports: Study
More than a decade after playing a leading role in uncovering the health risks to players in the National Football League, Bennet Omalu hopes his research will lead to a ban on children playing high-impact sports.
21 December 2015, 05:17 AM
Govt to provide health cards to poor
The government signs a deal with an insurance company to provide health cards to poor people under a pilot project.
20 December 2015, 10:30 AM
Milk matters!
Milk is the most balanced source of nutrition for human beings. Dairy products are a good source of energy, and contain all essential food elements including protein, fat, carbohydrate, vitamins, minerals and trace elements.
19 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Stroke and physiotherapy management
Mr Nahid Imran, a 30 years old gentleman, just completed his masters degree in information technology. Few months back he was in the Skype, chatting with his friend, suddenly he felt down; means loss of consciousness and speech along unable to move right side of his body. Then immediately he was taken to a nearby hospital. After examination, it was confirmed that he got massive haemorrhage in his left brain. All of a sudden his life got stuck. Like Mr Imran, there are many stroke sufferers in our community; the question is how much are we taking care of them.
19 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Health Infographic
Stunted growth, also known as stunting and nutritional stunting, is a reduced growth rate in human development. It is a primary manifestation of malnutrition and recurrent infections, such as diarrhoea and helminthiasis, in early childhood and even before birth, due to malnutrition during fetal development brought on by a malnourished mother. The following infographic helps to present ideas on how nutrition effects your health in a clear and concise way.
19 December 2015, 18:00 PM
9 health questions people asked Google in 2015
Chances are, one of the first places you turn for quick information on everything from that new diet fad to a troubling rash to a cough that won't quit is your
19 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Toothlessness a clue to deadly heart disease!
Toothless heart disease patients are nearly twice as likely to die as those who have all their teeth, a new study suggests.
19 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Ovarian cancer: Screening may cut deaths by a fifth
Doctors say there is now "encouraging" evidence that an annual blood test may cut ovarian cancer deaths by a fifth.
17 December 2015, 16:06 PM
Cancer is not just 'bad luck' but down to environment, study suggests
Cancer is overwhelmingly a result of environmental factors and not largely down to bad luck, a study suggests.
17 December 2015, 04:50 AM
How much running for good health? Not much (video)
Researchers found out how many miles a week you need to run to improve your health — and it’s surprisingly low.
14 December 2015, 04:44 AM
New global framework to eliminate rabies
A new framework to eliminate human rabies and save tens of thousands of lives each year has been launched by the World Health
12 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Modern medicine’s danger-land!
"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine", once said William Osler. Some believe he is the
12 December 2015, 18:00 PM