Health

The state government on Friday filed a report in the high court on the status of dengue in Bengal but did not specify the number of deaths or those affected by the disease.The report spoke of the mone...

A decade-old effort to search for novel biological markers for specific diseases and cancers using blood samples from Parsi community members is expected to receive a boost through a financial grant f...

The habit of several Calcuttans to buy over-the-counter medicines without consulting a doctor when they suffer from a digestive ailment causes the disease to aggravate, said doctors attending the annu...

The Calcutta Municipal Corporation will build two hospitals to treat patients suffering from vector-borne diseases like dengue, mayor Firhad Hakim said.Hakim said on Tuesday the two hospitals would se...

Dhanbad district, which reportedly witnesses 200 fatal road mishaps every year, doesn’t have a trauma centre despite the Centre granting Rs 80 lakh for the purpose way back in 2016. According to a r...

Indians these days are becoming obese and developing lifestyle diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. What is worse, some are embarking on this downward spiral at a young age. They can lay the bl...

Do you feel sluggish and weak and struggle to get through the day? If the answer is yes, chances are that you might be suffering from anaemia, a condition in which your blood has a decreased haemoglob...

The bliss that is ignorance — reputedly — does not suit everybody. Two recent studies, one Indian and one Australian, on whether those suffering from cancer wish to know the details of their illne...

I’m a 20-year-old girl who has, due to a mental illness, become both mentally and physically weak. My mother neither understands me, nor comforts me. Every day, we have fights and she shouts at me, ...

With a slow moving disease like Alzheimer’s, there’s still time for doubt. Perhaps the diagnosis is wrong and the memory holes and struggle for words are just normal ageing. Deep in your psyche, t...