Health

A more contagious form of the coronavirus has begun circulating in the US and elsewhere. In Britain, where it was first identified, the new variant became the predominant form in just three months, a...

For many of us, 2020 was an exceptionally stressful year, dominated by fears about the coronavirus pandemic. Even with the vaccine on the horizon, we’re likely to need some stress management str...

Nobody wants to die young; most people make attempts to live longer. Without much individual effort, life expectancy all over the world has increased. People are now living into their 90s. This is bec...

Not long ago, Stephen Loy had a lot of healthy habits. He exercised four times a week, cooked nutritious dinners for his family and snacked on healthy food such as hummus and bell peppers. But all th...

If you increase your heart rate, will your lifespan follow? That possibility is at the heart of an ambitious new study of exercise and mortality. The study, one of the largest and longest-term experim...

All over the world, vaccines are administered, starting at birth, to provide immunisation against a variety of diseases. They enhance the body’s natural defences in the fight against disease-cau...

This has not been a good year for sleep. With the coronavirus pandemic and school and work disruptions contributing to countless sleepless nights, sleep experts have encouraged people to adopt a varie...

The change: As awareness grows, we will definitely become more aware of other components of wellness. We focus predominantly on physical fitness as is normal in a community that’s starting to em...

In India, seven per cent of cancers occur in the lungs. This is really a pity because, unlike other cancers about whose cause and effect we can only speculate, lung cancer shows a direct relationship ...

Women who are socially isolated have an increased risk of high blood pressure but men, not so much. Scientists have found that compared with married women, single women had a 28 per cent higher risk o...