South India can be proud of the excellent facilities it has for cardiac care, says Dr Anil Tendulkar, senior cardiac surgeon from Mumbai.

Forty percent of the of 1.2 lakh cardiac surgeries done acro

Chile declared a health alert Tuesday at a site where 500,000 pigs, abandoned by a slaughtering company, are said to be dying in large numbers due to a lack of food and water.

Health Minister Jaime M

The Chinese city of Beijing has now set in place a 'two fly' rule as part of guidelines for public toilets, the BBC quoted Beijing Times in a report.

The rule means no more than two flies should be f

About one-fifth of youngsters in China's Shanghai city are overweight and their numbers are on the rise, say health experts.

According to Shanghai health experts, as much as 19.3 percent of local you

Millions of Indians are facing a new health risk. Increasing water scarcity is forcing farmers to grow vegetables and fodder using untreated sewage waste water across urban and rural cities.

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A doctor couple has been arrested following a woman's death during an abortion; while a 28-year-old woman has been arrested in another case for allegedly killing her day-old baby girl.

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Auto driver Subramani (37), hailing from Melnallathur, a village near Tiruvallur, is lucky to be alive even after two strong bites from a venomous krait snake almost killed him.

It is still hard to

If you only associated the term ‘high BP’ with your overweight grandfather, or your twitchy, overworked boss, think again.

Doctors are even treating teenage hypertension, as the lethal combination o

With 80 per cent of his stomach removed, three major surgeries and a brain stroke could not diminish the will power of a 63-year-old retired police officer from Hyderabad city. Even though 80 per cen

Even as many parents glow with pride seeing their kid’s nimble fingers work on a Nintendo game, what they fail to realise is sitting for hours in front of the computer may soon result in the child not