HEALTH NEWS


Everyone falls sick one time or other and needs to go to a doctor for medical attention. A misdiagnosis, an inaccurate treatment or a tragedy leads to disputes we classify in law as medical negligence. Patients worry if they are getting the best care while doctors worry about the legal...

Read More



Akshay Naik 14 March 2019
The role of lifestyle changes for primary prevention of heart attack or other cardiovascular diseases cannot be undermined. Small lifestyle changes, over a period, can make a lot of difference and pay rich dividends when it comes to heart health. In line with this hypothesis, people who spend...

Read More



Akshay Naik 08 March 2019
People with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) live with frequent, miserable episodes of abdominal pain, diarrhoea and, in severe cases, rectal bleeding. Such people, often, find it difficult to find out which foods work best for them and those that do not. Interestingly, new research now...

Read More



Akshay Naik 28 February 2019
When thinking about losing weight, one generally tends to imagine and be fearful about having to spend hours in the gym and depriving oneself of the foods one loves. To a certain extent, this does become necessary; however, new research has now shown that the best predictor of success in...

Read More



Moneylife Digital Team 08 February 2019
The Singapore Chinese health study, conducted by researchers at the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and Duke-NUS Medical School, concluded that the way to reduce the risk of diabetes is to have more of plant foods, such as vegetables, fruits and...

Read More



TruthInAdvertising.org 28 January 2019
Picture this: You’re in your local drugstore standing in front of a wall of pain relief products trying to decide which of the many bottles of pills will stop your headache the fastest, but the tremendous pounding in your head is impairing your ability to think. And then, as if out of a...

Read More



Akshay Naik 17 January 2019
Deficiency of vitamin-D is common in older people and may lead to increased bone resorption, bone loss and impairment of muscle function. Older people are, often, encouraged to take supplements of vitamin-D to keep their bones, teeth and muscles healthy. However, contrary to this popular...

Read More



Akshay Naik 07 January 2019
Eggs remain one of the most contentious of foods. Traditionally, high intakes are not advised primarily because of the high content of cholesterol in eggs. However, eggs are also a bountiful resource of many bioactive ingredients that are known to have positive effects on human health. Hence,...

Read More



Akshay Naik 28 December 2018
Spinach is a superfood, known to contain loads of nutrients in a low-calorie package. These dark, leafy greens are important for skin, hair and bone health, while also providing essentials like protein, iron, vitamins and minerals. However, taking advantage of all these nutrients is not...

Read More



Akshay Naik 25 December 2018
People afflicted by an auto-immune disease have their body’s immune system turned against them; the disease makes the normally guarding ‘defence’ cells mistakenly attack the body. There are numerous auto-immune diseases that have been discovered and classified; however, the reasons and cure for...

Read More



Akshay Naik 21 December 2018
The fight against obesity is costing the global economy an estimated US$2 trillion annually and has been dubbed a modern health epidemic. However, new research has uncovered a possible cure for obesity that is, literally, as plain as dirt.    While investigating how drug delivery in...

Read More



Akshay Naik 20 December 2018
In these modern times, people have become more health conscious and try to maintain healthy eating habits. However, a person still has to step away from the temptation of making unhealthy purchases in the supermarket. Plenty of people have gone into stores shopping for one thing and have,...

Read More



Katie Thomas (The New York Times)  and   Charles Ornstein (ProPublica) 20 December 2018
Dr. José Baselga, the former chief medical officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, resigned under pressure on Wednesday as one of the editors in chief of Cancer Discovery, a prominent scientific journal, after he failed to accurately disclose his conflicts of interest in dozens of...

Read More



IANS 19 December 2018
The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 that ensures effective regulation of surrogacy, prohibits commercial surrogacy and allows altruistic surrogacy to the needy Indian infertile couples was passed by the Lok Sabha on Wednesday by a voice vote.   Initiating the debate on the...

Read More



Akshay Naik 12 December 2018
Traditionally, the belief has been that weight gain or loss is directly related to consumption and burning of calories. Now, new research suggests that certain diets, namely, those with low carbohydrate (carb) content, are better calorie burners than others. This study has been published in...

Read More



Charles Ornstein (ProPublica)  and   Katie Thomas (The New York Times) 10 December 2018
The dean of Yale’s medical school, the incoming president of a prominent cancer group and the head of a Texas cancer center are among leading medical figures who have not accurately disclosed their relationships with drug companies. This story was co-published with The New York...

Read More



Akshay Naik 07 December 2018
When immigrants arrive in the United States, their gut microbiomes start to change. The native strains of bacteria that they bring from other continents are replaced by those found more commonly in Westernised bodies and the overall diversity is lost. This fascinating discovery was made by...

Read More



IANS 07 December 2018
A group of patients who became victims of faulty hip implant by Johnson and Johnson (J&J) has written to Union Health Minister JP Nadda, rejecting the compensation formula accepted by the government stating that it was done without consulting the stakeholders.   "We would like to...

Read More



Akshay Naik 05 December 2018
There is growing evidence that people who stay up late have an increased risk of poor health as they are more likely to have erratic eating patterns and consume unhealthy foods. According to a new review of studies, sleeping habits could have a very real impact on one’s health, by increasing...

Read More



Akshay Naik 30 November 2018
US pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has been in the limelight recently for the wrong reasons. A jury in the US state of Missouri has recently awarded $4.7 billion in damages to 22 women, who alleged that its talc products caused them to develop ovarian cancer. What has been...

Read More

Free Helpline
Legal Credit
Feedback