Family and friends host craft fair to fund heart failure researchThis is Hull and East RidingEAST RIDING: A Hessle family are aiming to give hope to those with heart failure after organising an event for the British Heart Foundation's (BHF) Mending…
5 surprising facts about cholesterolTimes of IndiaAs result of this, we always consider it to be bad and harmful to heart health in particular. Yes, it is true, that high cholesterol isn't good for your heart. But, there are … As the level of cho…
FirstpostThe quiet heart of Durga Puja: A photographer's 12-year-journeyFirstpostChirodeep Chaudhuri's A Village in Bengal – Photographs and an Essay is published by Picador India. The photographs appear courtesy of the publisher. The book wi…
The HinduIn the heart of changeThe HinduNine decades later, in 1994, 60-year-old Vanya and her 80-year-old mother returned to India to travel that letter trail. They then went up the Nilgiris to find her mother's ancestral home. The windows had fal…
Treating serious intestinal ailments with human stool is still a niche therapy. While it seems like a rather weird concept, more evidence in support of this unusual treatment, known by various names, such as stool transplant, fecal transplant or fecal …
Voice of AmericaNew Study Could Change Treatment for AsthmaVoice of America“The symptoms-based arm resulted in a reduced use of inhaled corticosteroids, a 50 percent reduction. It also resulted in a reduction in exacerbation in the autumn, a time whe…
A pancreas transplant is a surgical procedure where a functioning donor's pancreas is transplanted into a suitable recipient, and the recipient's own pancreas is left in situ. Conceptually, this is the same as kidney transplant where a donor ki…
Only 2% get liver for transplant, says doctorTimes of IndiaJaspal is not the only who is looking for donor, according to experts the crunch in organ donations is severely affecting the number of transplants in India – here nearly 25,000 patients need l…
The long road to recovery for double-lung transplant recipient Helene Campbell has taken another detour.
Workshops by South Corpn to help students learn hygieneDeccan HeraldIn order to make the initiative successful, the civic body in association with Heart Care Foundation of India, has decided to train its teachers in good hygiene and first aid practices…