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Breast cancer survivors may die of heart disease, doctors warn

Chemotherapy can weaken heart muscle, some newer medicines can increase risk of heart failure, radiation can cause heart rhythm disorders.

08 Feb 2018 8:11 AM

Death, the only certainty

Human beings like to prepare for all stages of their life except death, but there is no running away from this ultimate truth of life.

08 Feb 2018 3:23 AM

Obesity crisis sees stroke victims getting younger

New study finds that people aged between 40 and 69 now make up nearly forty per cent of patients worldwide.

02 Feb 2018 2:02 PM

Namibia reports first cholera case after deadly outbreak in Zambia

Ministry said further investigation is ongoing and health workers have been alerted to be on the lookout for cholera cases.

01 Feb 2018 8:19 AM

Breastfeeding reduces women’s risk of developing high blood pressure

Study of more than 3,000 women found those who nursed infants were up to 51 per cent less likely to become hypertensive as they got older.

31 Jan 2018 1:11 PM

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Gene Sharp, lifelong advocate for nonviolent struggle, dies at 90

Sharp devoted his life to studying nonviolent struggle, deeply researching and documenting its use in human history.

31 Jan 2018 10:43 AM

Founder of IKEA, Ingvar Kamprad dies at 91

Kamprad died on Saturday at his home in Smaland, in southern Sweden, the chain's Swedish unit, IKEA Sverige, said on Twitter on Sunday.

29 Jan 2018 11:31 AM

Global pandemic unstoppable, warn experts at Davos summit

Experts say pandemic will happen due to international travel as world marks 100 years of Spanish flu that killed 50 million.

27 Jan 2018 4:01 PM

Padma Shri awardee, actress Supriya Devi passes away at 83

Supriya devi acted in some 45 Bengali films till 2006 with her last film being The Namesake.

26 Jan 2018 9:59 AM

Ursula K Le Guin, legendary sci fi and fantasy author dies

Le Guin is best remembered for global bestselling "Earthsea" series.

24 Jan 2018 2:13 PM

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Obesity in children likely to cause death earlier than their healthy peers, says study

According to report by Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), child health is suffering at hands of disjointed approach.

24 Jan 2018 9:49 AM

People die more on weekends

Around 300,000 patients from 470 hospitals were monitored for the research.

23 Jan 2018 4:18 PM

Death toll from yellow fever triples in Brazil, says WHO

Of 35 confirmed cases, 20 were in Sao Paulo state, which includes South America’s largest city, Sao Paulo.

23 Jan 2018 12:32 PM

New technology can predict time of death

Experts are hoping that the algorithm could come in handy to treat terminally ill patients.

23 Jan 2018 12:18 PM

Woman hangs herself after hubby does not go shopping with her

The distressed wife is reported to have hanged herself after her husband postponed a planned shopping trip by a single day.

19 Jan 2018 2:35 PM

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Mystic Mantra: Art of conscious birth and death

Whenever there is an opportunity, a situation in which you can be reborn, you will be reborn.

19 Jan 2018 1:00 AM

Youngster from Florida dies of rabies after touching a sick bat

Six-year-old boy dies from rabies he contracted after being scratched by an infected bat.

16 Jan 2018 11:13 AM

Girl dies of new eye-bleeding fever which is feared to be worse than bubonic plague

Nine-year-old died in central Uganda with symptoms of an eye-bleeding disease which could kill up to 40 per cent of those infected by it.

15 Jan 2018 2:50 PM

2 teens kill homeless man with cleaver 'because it was funny'

Both of them were found guilty of manslaughter but neither was in the dock to hear the verdicts after refusing to leave their prison cells.

13 Jan 2018 6:15 PM

Global warming will put millions more at flood risk in next two decades

Researchers say fluvial floods are among the most common and devastating natural disasters nowadays.

13 Jan 2018 12:51 PM

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