As Diwali celebrations approach, hospitals are preparing for a familiar but unpredictable surge in emergencies, from firecracker-related burns and eye injuries to road accidents and pollution-triggered respiratory distress. Emergency physicians, trauma specialists and pulmonologists explain the cases they anticipate, the pressure on critical care services and the precautions that could prevent…
Social media is awash with claims iron deficiency can be identified in the mirror by dark circles, breaking hair and dry skin. But is ‘ferritin face’ real?
The advisory, by the FDA, was issued to ensure food safety during the festive season, when demand for sweets, khava, ghee, dry fruits and other food products rises
A study of nearly 5,800 adults found that heart scans measuring calcium buildup in the arteries led to the same observed rate of major cardiovascular events as traditional risk assessments, despite…
[Health-e] Elderly couple travels between health facilities searching for chronic diabetes medication. When public facilities run out, they spend more than R1,000 on medicine at private pharmacies.
Staying in school one extra year as a teenager appears to lower the chances of a dementia diagnosis later in life, and the benefit seemed strongest among people genetically predisposed to the disease.
