Hormone therapy carries some risks When Leverenz was first prescribed hormone therapy last year, she kept worrying about the risks she’d heard about — then finally decided: “I can’t live like this anymore.” With...

In addition, hospitals have flagged arbitrary deductions on claims, delays in payments, and slow approvals for admission and discharge. They argue that these practices strain hospital finances and, if continued, could ultimately compromise patient...

CHENNAI: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has welcomed the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council’s decision to reduce GST on several cancer-related and other essential medicines, describing it as a crucial step towards making...

For elderly people and patients with osteoporosis, the recommendation is to extend this to 30 minutes. In both cases, sunblock with an SPF between 15 and 30 should be used, depending on the latitude...

But in the pre-smartphone era, having suitable recordings to draw upon was far less common. When Ezekiel could locate only one very short and poor quality clip, Poole said his “heart sank”. Nearly cried...

This action follows similar warnings against other wellness chains, as regulators step up scrutiny of “inch-loss in one session” style advertisements that overpromise results. How safe is CoolSculpting?CoolSculpting, also known as cryolipolysis, works by...

MELBOURNE: Eating disorders can affect anybody, no matter their age, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status or body size. Yet the myth that eating disorders are diseases of affluence persists and can mean those from wealthier...

“This is not just a programme, it is a movement to secure healthier lives and a brighter future for countless families in India,” she said, adding that no child has to suffer from a...

It also pointed out the need for community-level screening through primary healthcare infrastructure and also enhancing district level facilities for early cancer diagnostics and referral linkage. Pointing out that over 70 percent of cancer...

The biggest lie those who create and spread misinformation perpetrate is that they want you to think for yourself. They warn their target audience not to be “sheep” and not to let themselves be...

In Uganda, an east African country of 45 million people, there were 12.6 million malaria cases and nearly 16,000 deaths in 2023. Many were children younger than 5 and pregnant women, according to WHO....

The city that never sleeps, perhaps because it can’t, is one of the few built up US areas with a noise code regulating sound from vehicles, construction, businesses, and recreation. It has even installed...

Legionnaires’ disease, which is not directly contagious from person to person, is caused by bacteria that can multiply in water and air conditioning systems. Spreading through contaminated droplets, the bug can cause fever and...

Educational systems often create barriers because schools are not built with diverse ways of knowing and being in mind. Neurodiversity is not a problem to fix; it’s a dimension of human diversity to embrace....

NEW DELHI: A COVID-19 infection could age one’s blood vessels by about five years, especially among women, according to a new study. The effect was found to be stronger among women who experienced persistent...

What do the new studies say? Two newly published studies investigated people with type 2 diabetes living in the United States over two years. The studies looked at the medical records of 159,000 to...

Sanjeev Sanyal, Member, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, noted that “the issue of claims in advertisements also needs deeper scrutiny because even if there is supposedly scientific evidence supporting them, it needs...

Leadless pacemakers are a great advancement in pacemaker technology and a blessing for many patients. This pacemaker does not have wires or large battery and doesn’t need a surgical pocket for its implantation. It...

Bone marrow transplant today is much safer than it was a few years ago. We now have better ways to find matching donors, says Dr G Vijay, Hemato Oncologist, VS Hospitals, in an interview...

When we think of healthcare, we often imagine it in binary terms – people are either sick and need to be cured, or they’re well and need to stay that way. But the reality,...

The researchers used the policy change as a natural laboratory of sorts to study the effect of shingles vaccination on long-term health outcomes. In a statistically sophisticated analysis of health records, the team found...

CHENNAI: A new study published in Nature suggests that low levels of lithium in the brain may play an important role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease and that carefully restoring lithium could help...