The India Meteorological Department (IMD) had announced a deficit monsoon this year. Skymet, a Noida-based private weather forecasting agency, on the...

I feel a loss of appetite, pain in joints and suffer from a sleep disorder. There are times when I don’t feel like taking medicines,” says 41-year-old...

IT IS well-known that endogamy, or marriages within the same gene pool, accentuate the risk of genetic disorders in a population. Despite <g...

Yoga is recognised the world over as a desirable option for maintaining good health. Its therapeutic effects are well-known and well-accepted....

On November 10, news of 13 women dying in the hospital after mass sterilisations in Chhattisgarh made national and international headlines. Subsequent...

H1N1 is not the only virus that has taken the world hostage. Every year, as the temperatures dip and the air becomes dry, new strains of flu viruses...

Just as spring was setting in and people were heaving a sigh of relief, unseasonal rains lashed many parts of the country towards the end of February,...

It has been euphoric week since the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) took over the reins of Delhi after dealing a big blow to the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP),...

IN 2009, when swine flu hit the country for the first time health experts were clueless about the new virus. Within eight months it killed around...

As  news started to filter in on November 10, surrounding the deaths of women at a sterilisation camp at Takhatpur block of Bilaspur district,...

On occasion of World Hepatitis Day on 28 July, the World Health Organization (WHO) and its alliance partners have called on governments, civil society...

The study, submitted to the central government in the third week of February, has found that such urban heat islands (UHIS) exist around seven of the...