Bengaluru: The monsoon has brought relief to the city, but it has also spawned an army of viruses. Hospitals in the city have been seeing an increase in the number of chronic obstructive airways dise

At least 20 people were injured in a stampede here on Friday during the distribution of the famous 'fish prasadam' medicine that some believe provides miraculous relief to asthma patients.

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It’s a little known, but alarming fact. Of the 300 million asthmatics around the world, 3.5 million are from Kerala, or to put it simply , one in every 86 asthmatic in the world is a Malayalee.

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Chennai seems to be in news for all the unhealthy reasons. After being labelled the diabetes capital of the country, it is now being called the asthma capital.

With vehicle population in TN crossing

There has been a four to five-fold increase in paediatric and adult asthma cases in Hyderabad city, compared to the situation five to eight years ago. Interestingly, doctors point out that it is not m