Is it necessary to take statins for preventing heart diseases?

There is a very close link between high cholesterol levels and risk of heart diseases. High cholesterol along with other risk factors like high blood pressure and obesity i...

Eating walnuts may keep heart disease and diabetes at bay!

Are you overweight and scared of developing heart disease and diabetes? Walnuts might just be the answer to your worries. According to a study led by Dr. David Katz, direct...

Experts, eco-scholars conduct annual water bird census

KANPUR: To count the number of migratory and local birds in the Yamuna river in Farah area of Mathura, ornithologists and a group of Yamuna eco-scholars participated in the...

India in midst of stroke epidemic

New Delhi: Changing habits and sedentary lifestyles have made the incidence of strokes more prevalent among South Asians, notably Indians, and can inducepermanent disabilit...

Obesity: A rising epidemic in India

New Delhi: A recent study puts an alarming 70 percent of India’s urban population in the obese or overweight bracket taking the country right in the middle of a &ldqu...

In Texting Era, Crisis Hotlines Put Help at Youths’ Fingertips

Texting has become such a fundamental way to communicate that crisis groups have begun to adopt it as an alternative way of providing emergency services and counselling. Read More

Gamers can now join hunt for cancer cure

LONDON: Gaming enthusiasts across the world can from Tuesday join the search for cancer cures with a citizen science project using a smartphone game to help researchers ana...

Rihanna Joins Viva Glam by MAC to Fight AIDS

Sales of Viva Glam by MAC, a subsidiary of Estée Lauder, support the MAC AIDS Fund, which has become the second-largest private donor to AIDS organizations.

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Cancer is curable: Demystifying many cancer myths

NEW DELHI: Some believe cancer is incurable, quite a few think it is contagious and many others feel it can be caused by hair-dyes and antiperspirants – myths like th...