The final meet of the season nearly turned fatal for LIC’s Arya. The Kerala athlete collapsed midway through the women’s 400m race of the 52nd national open championship at the Nehru Stadium here on T

The voluntary organisation Maithri is spearheading a unique initiative in mental health care to prevent suicides in Kizhakkambalam village, east of Ernakulam.

The slogan ‘prevention is better than cu

The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has held Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences guilty of “medical negligence” in treating a patient and has directed the city’s prestigious

The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has held Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences guilty of “medical negligence” in treating a patient and has directed the city’s prestigious

The mosquitoes are back in full-form, bringing with them vector-borne diseases. While dengue has turned out to be the deadliest of the season—two children have already succumbed to the disease in the

A post office near the Swiss city of Zurich was evacuated on Tuesday after an unidentified substance was found in the building, with 20 people complaining of becoming ill, police said.

One of the 20

Despite the monsoon making a late surge by the end of August, there has been no major outbreak of epidemics in Ernakulam district while fever cases too had come down compared to June and July.

Howev

There’s widespread scare over clinical trials and their impact on ill-informed patients, who are often victims of circumstances than willing collaborators in research. This was foreseen long back, whi

Childhood obesity among Chennai’s school-going children might have reached an all-time high.

However, on a brighter note, educating the kids and their parents about the hazards of being overweight m

A one-and-a half-year-old boy in Villivakkam succumbed to dengue at a private hospital here late on Thursday night.

The child, Nitish, had developed multiple organ failure and started bleeding after