October is celebrated as breast cancer awareness month. Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world with an alarming mortality rate. It is more common in women than in men. Since its discovery, the diagnosis and treatment techniques for breast cancer have developed exponentially. This has helped people in getting early […]
October is observed as the Breast Cancer Awareness Month all over the world. The aim is to build awareness and spread concrete information and resources among people about breast cancer. It is a common type of cancer, seen in women more often than men. Especially older women above the age of 50 years. Symptoms of […]
Let’s be honest with ourselves – ever since the lockdown began and most of us have been confined to our homes, our waistlines have taken the liberty to, uh, grow healthily. Not that that’s a bad thing (because seriously, there isn’t much that we can do within the four walls of our houses), but those […]
The heart is roughly the size of your fist. Yet it works 24/7, taking no breaks and pumping blood throughout the whole body. It beats nearly 1 lakh times in a day. If you do quick math, that’s over 2.5 billion times in your entire lifetime. Seems almost impossible that an organ this tiny can […]
The COVID-19 pandemic is nothing short of a nightmare for us. It becomes one step more undesirable for patients with respiratory problems, because catching COVID-19 could be potentially fateful for them. Patients with asthma, COPD, bronchitis etc. have probably been on the edge since this pandemic began. It is very essential for them to take […]
Every year on 28 July, World Hepatitis Day (WHD) is observed to raise awareness about viral hepatitis, its impact on the world and influence real change in people. In 2020 the theme is ‘Find the Missing Millions’. Today, there are nearly 300 million living with viral hepatitis. Their lives are in danger because they are […]
As a nation, we’ve officially been on a lockdown for a little over 100 days. While some of us may have gotten the opportunity to step outside the house and soak a little sunshine on our way to get groceries (or at times, work), many of us have been inside the house 24/7. We’re definitely […]
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that music is one of our closest friends. Think about everything it does for us ー it is always there when you need it, you can dance along with it, it has something for every mood of yours, it never makes you feel alone and you will always […]
Dreams feel like a free portal to another dimension. Humans have about 4-6 dreams every night and we forget 90% of these dreams when we wake up. Unless it was vividly real or a bad dream; these often stick with us. Even if the details of these dreams were sketchy, we often remember the emotion […]
Viruses are practically invisible to the naked eye, but a type of it has the population of nearly 7 billion sitting quietly in their homes, social-distancing from each other. A large portion of the world today is in lock down, thanks to a very, very, very tiny thing called the coronavirus. While it’s easy to […]
