Youngistan is on a high, but is hitting a health low as early as in its 30s. On the eve of World Liver Day, April 19, doctors in Chennai highlighted a worrying trend. They said there was a massive inc

Apart from sipping the cool, salty-sweet juice directly from the coconut on a hot day, Chennaiites seem to have developed a taste for a few delicacies that use ilaneer and the slurpy-good coconut fles

Seven-year-olds wander around the city in tourist garb, clutching at their expensive digital cameras for a photo-journalism workshop.

Tiny tots in tutus preen in front of a mirror-wall, striking bal

The teeth are all gone, but the lip lock is still strong. The joints are creaky, but creaking sound continues to emanate from bedrooms.

A majority of aging Indians — even 90-year-olds — are sexually

Their joints may be creaky and teeth all gone, but a majority of ageing Indians are still sexually active, some even into their 90s, a study has found.

Chennai is sitting on a swine flu volcano waiting to erupt.

While A(H1N1) virus has infected 29 people in the state, leaving one 74 year old man dead, public health experts are apprehensive about t

With the state government struggling to break the chain of transmission of A(H1N1) virus, private players seem to be jumping in the fray to make a quick buck at the expense of panicked people.

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The mineral water that you have bought might not be as hygienic as claimed. For, there has been an increase in the number of typhoid, diarrhoea, cholera and gastritis cases even from the upper strata

A four and a half year old girl from SS Kulam near Kovilpalayam, here was admitted to Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH) on Wednesday night for swine flu.

The girl's father Velumani, running

If your colleague is constantly coughing and sniffling and you work in an air-conditioned office, better watch out because this is the season of “droplet infections” wherein an assortment of viral fev