Amidst reports of a proliferation of 'babas' and 'tantriks' offering magical cure and luck in India, a UK-based rationalists group has offered 100,000 pounds (approx Rs 85 lakh) prize to any such pers

The next time you visit a hospital, don’t forget to ask the doctor/nurse if they washed their hands.

On May 5, World Hand Hygiene Day, World Health Organisation urged patients to be proactive and r

This professor is on the streets now. Forty-eight-year engineering graduate R.Kaleeshwaran, a former professor in theatre work at the prestigious Loyola College here, is now busy training 35 folk thea

The simple karela or bitter gourd could soon emerge as a natural antidote for alcoholism and drug abuse, and the medicine of the future to treat HIV and AIDS, say city Unani doctors. Nearly 10,000 al

Even as stroke is perceived as an illness of the elderly, especially those with lifestyle diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular disorders, more children are now diagnosed with the condition.

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An exclusive free clinic for senior citizens is getting ready in Madurai. Taking advice from the International Federation of Ageing — Voluntary Global Forum for Elders Rights — a 42-year-old tailorin

The Indian medicine fraternity has launched a fresh tirade against the vice-chancellor of the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University — this time for attempting to remove the term ‘surgery’ from Ayush de

The government’s plan of introducing ‘biometric’ attendance in government hospitals to keep track of errant doctors who flee for private practice before their duty hours are over, still remains on pap

What if you knew, even before your child was born, that she wouldn't look like everyone else? Clara Beatty's parents knew.

They were living in Belgium at the time, a decade ago. Prenatal screening wa

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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