TB is curable with early diagnosis, prompt treatment — Prof...

When the chest pain and racking cough of tuberculosis patient Asha (31) refused to subside even after six months of treatment, the doctor got her sputum tested again - only to find that she had developed a worrying form of the disease known as ...

When Luna Petagine was diagnosed with cancer aged just 18 months, her mother, Lucy, was plagued with doubts. Had the disease been brought on by something she-d done - or hadn't done? Was it a phone mast or car fumes? Was it something in her genes? ...

NEW DELHI: The out patient departments in Delhi hospitals are going houseful. With temperatures soaring high, doctors say, the number of cases of heat exhaustion and diseases like typhoid, gastroenteritis and food poisoning have gone up ...

TORONTO — Angela Hartlin's legs are covered with small bloodied sores that overlay myriad scars, ghost-like reminders of similar lesions that have dotted her skin for years. For more than decade, she has been obsessively picking at the skin on her ...

Gastroenterologists at the Institute of Medical Sciences and Sum Hospital have, for the first time in the State, performed Endoscopic Ultrasound Guided imaging of the chest cavity and fine needle aspiration (FNA) on a 45-year-old person to diagnose ...

When Joanne Drayson regularly walked her dogs in the woodland near her home in Guildford, Surrey, she was unaware that a tick the size of a poppy seed would infect her with a serious and debilitating disease. "I had this strange symptom, which I can ...

Take a quiz to find out whether you're prepped to battle water-bone diseases that are on the rise this summer Doctors say it, you know it, but you'll still do it, won't you? Drink a glass of juice and enjoy a plate of paanipuri off the street, that ...

There is a sharp increase of asthma patients due to environmental pollution and lack of awareness towards the disease and its morbidity. "There is a need to create awareness among people about asthma, a modern-day disease caused by environmental ...

The Department of Labour is concerned about the rising number of people who are hurt or even killed at work. The department's compensation fund has in the past five years paid out more than R1 billion to people injured at work. And in just the past ...