Chaos ruled the first day of the sale of application forms for MBBS and BDS courses in the state on Tuesday, as the Directorate of Medical Education (DME) did not expect the large crowds with the form

The sprawling campus of the Institute of Mental Health has been a hot favourite among Tamil filmmakers, thanks to its forested locales and dilapidated charm. Numerous television serials have been set

Lashing out at the health department for unreservedly issuing permission for film shooting at the Institute of Mental Health, psychiatrists condemn the ‘commodification’ of the mentally ill in Tamil N

An almost 70-strong film crew shooting at Institute of Mental Health (IMH) since January is giving inmates sleepless nights.

The crew from Shristi Cinemas has reportedly taken over the 218-year-old

The patients sit in long rows, eyes closed, hands limp. Pranic healers hover around them, making elaborate motions with their arms and muttering under their breath, invoking the life force, or ‘prana’

With the mercury inching towards the 40-degree mark, city doctors are receiving cases of heat stress, especially in patients with heart disease and long-term diabetes. Even as the summer is known to s

When an older doctor puts his stethoscope to your chest he may hear ‘lub-dub lub-dub’, but, soon, younger medicos may hear it go ‘tak-dina-din’.

Experts in the city are looking to record the heart so

City pediatricians have raised an alarm on meningitis and have urged parents to get their babies vaccinated against the dreadful bacterial brain fever that has a high mortality rate of 16 to 32 per ce

Youngistan is on a high, but is hitting a health low as early as in its 30s. On the eve of World Liver Day, April 19, doctors in Chennai highlighted a worrying trend. They said there was a massive inc

Apart from sipping the cool, salty-sweet juice directly from the coconut on a hot day, Chennaiites seem to have developed a taste for a few delicacies that use ilaneer and the slurpy-good coconut fles