illness

An Australian research has suggested that youngsters who get very little sleep are more prone to mental illness. The study of about 20,000 people aged between 17 and 24 found those who slept less than five hours a night were three times more likely than normal sleepers to become psychologically...

According to a World Health Organisation report Preventing Chronic Diseases — A Vital Investment, 350 million people will die in the next 10 years of chronic disease and a significant proportion of these will be in India. To help fight such diseases is an initiative launched by the Piramal...

A mysterious illness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has experts scratching their heads. The illness which appeared three months ago in chickens and pigs later spread to humans causing high fever, vomiting, headache and diarrhea and has claimed the lives of anything from 60 to 100...