The International Diabetes federation and Jyothydev’s Diabetic Research centre would observe this month as the ‘World Diabetic Month’ and various programmes would be held across the state as part of i

At least 24 children have died from mosquito-borne Japanese Encephalitis in Odisha's Malkangiri district, an official said Saturday.

A team of experts visited the affected area a few days ago and col

Thirty-five year old Imayavalli’s baby boy weighed only two kilos, but she had been carrying, along with her pregnancy, a 7-kilogram fibroid.

The wife of a coolie; Valli could not get ‘Corporate he

Being an Indian and below 5 years of age is a rather dangerous prospect right now. The odds seem to be piling up against Indian toddlers — a recent Unicef report has claimed that 16.55 lakh below-5 ki

Cases of malaria, dengue and leptospirosis are on the rise in the city with the monsoon bringing with it a spate of fevers and infections, say city doctors.

The monsoon is also the busiest time of t

In a rare achievement, doctors at the Medical Trust Hospital (MTH) have been able to restore to shape the life of 22-year-old Nithin Vijayan, a welding worker, who lost half of his face in a gruesome

Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was in the midst of students again, first at the Girinagar Bhavan’s School and later at the Kochi Co-operative Medical College, Kalamassery, on Friday, the second d

Some drug manufacturing companies paid a strikingly low compensation of Rs50,000 for a life lost during their clinical trials last year, government data has suggested.

While the average cost of each

The state’s first Haemophilia Treatment Centre has been sanctioned at the Ernakulam District Hospital in Aluva.

The centre, which aims to offer comprehensive treatment for heamophilia, is being set u

General Hospital at Erna-kulam is becoming a focal point of attention from the medical fraternity all over the nation.

A host of public sector hospital authorities are evincing a keen interest in vi