A week of high decibel dhols, bursting firecrackers, and late-night aartis wrecks Mumbai's circadian rhythms, leaving the city thoroughly exhausted. When festive celebrations push bedtimes deep past midnight, our internal clocks take a severe hit. As Dr. Mihir Gangakhedkar, consultant in pulmonology at Fortis Hospital in Mulund aptly puts it, “You cannot expect to have …
When rescue dog Chloe is not tumbling across the grass on a farm outside India's tech capital Bengaluru, she is learning to sniff human breath for cancer with a little help from AI. Fitted with a 3D-printed helmet and harness packed with sensors, Chloe is part of experimental efforts to use dogs' extraordinary sense of …
Doctors in Kolkata have successfully treated a 35-year-old schoolteacher who arrived with severe pain, tingling and numbness in his right hand, accompanied by bluish discolouration of several fingers. With the risk of permanent damage to the limb increasing by the hour, timely diagnosis and intervention became crucial. A critical vascular emergency initially appeared to be …
In keeping with the observance of Rashtriya Poshan Maah (National Nutrition Month) every September, mobilising communities and reinforcing key nutrition, health and caregiving behaviours among pregnant women, lactating mothers, children, adolescents, and their families, the ninth edition this year will be launched on Wednesday at the Rudraksh International Cooperation and Convention Centre in Uttar Pradesh's …
True inflammation is a natural and vital part of the body's healing process, yet modern daily routines often push this biological mechanism into overdrive. When inadequate sleep, chronic psychological stress, erratic meal timings, excessive processed foods, and a sedentary lifestyle become the long-term norm, they quietly drive chronic low-grade inflammation. This systemic state drains your …
As monsoon season sets in, atmospheric humidity levels skyrocket, creating a challenging environment for overall hair and scalp health. While most people instinctively focus on treating frizzy strands or dry ends, hair care experts emphasise that the root cause of seasonal hair distress lies directly at the scalp level. Continuous humidity, persistent sweat, rainwater impurities, …
A 53-year-old man who was admitted to a Delhi hospital in a semi-comatose state following a brain haemorrhage has recovered and returned to an independent life after a two-and-a-half-year medical ordeal involving nine hospitalisations and six surgeries. Doctors at Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, said the patient's treatment became particularly challenging after he developed tuberculosis of …
Eleven years of swallowing her own hair left a 20-year-old woman with a massive 1.16-kg hairball filling her stomach, which doctors at a private hospital here removed after she developed severe abdominal pain and repeated vomiting. The woman, a student, had been consuming strands of her own hair since she was around nine years old, …
Doctors in Pune have given a 32-year-old woman from Nairobi a new lease of life after suffering from a severely weakened condition with severe nutritional deficiencies, recurrent abdominal infection, sepsis, continuous pus drainage and a persistent leak following previous surgery. The woman had undergone 11 weight-loss and revision procedures over 15 years, when she reached …
Higher vitamin B12 levels in parents before conception and higher red blood cell (RBC) folate concentrations in mothers after conception could be related to lower risk of birth defect, suggesting that nutritional status may play a role, a study has found. The findings, published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, support the potential importance …
