Health & Fitness

Sanchita Sharma writes about which procedure is better to treat heart disease, bypass surgery or angioplasty…

Testing for the human papilloma virus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer and treating it the same day as the test results cuts the death rate by 47 per cent, reports a study of 131,746 women from 52 villages across India.

Cancer cannot invade a healthy body that’s free of an overload of toxins, whether mental or physical. Dr Anjali Mukerjee offers lifestyle recommendations to help combat cancer.

Dr Anjali Mukerjee, a nutritionist and the founder of Health Total shares some useful tips and guidelines to deal with everyday stress and anxiety.

You probably hear it a lot, casually thrown around in your gym, the fact that, “Weight loss is all about revving up the metabolism”. Your body’s physical shape is very closely connected to its rate of metabolism, which simply refers to all of the body’s physical and chemical processes that use energy.

“Almost 3-4 per cent Indian women develop gestational diabetes, a disease that places both the mother and child at risk of complications,” says Dr Suneeta Mittal, HoD, Obstetrics and Gyanecology at the AIIMS.