Health

Water fountains installed in the city for beautification, in the run up to the recently held FIFA U-17 tournament and the Book Fair, now lie abandoned. Mosquitoes breeding in the filthy, stagnant water pose a definite health risk.

A 2014 national survey shows that over 20% of diabetics in urban India suffer from diabetic retinopathy, a disorder that could cause permanent vision loss.

Mental illnesses have been treated as being “not real” or more often, as all “in your mind”. But they are real, and one merely doesn’t “shake out of it”. As we observe the month around World Mental Health Day, an useful explainer on its symptoms and what you can do about it.

The Bangalore Medical College Development Trust (BMC DT) and Infosys Foundation have jointly set up a Bone Marrow Registry with the mission to set up a database of willing bone marrow donors, with details of their HLA type, in order to help patients in need of transplant. Here’s how you could register.

A large number of perimenopausal women battle doubts over whether it is too late in the day to reject sanitary napkins for the healthier and more environment-friendly menstrual cups. This addresses all their inner fears.

If you’ve always shied away from running and athletic sports on your days of the month, switch to menstrual cups and feel the difference!

Menstrual cups are better for health, easier on your pocket, more convenient and definitely better for the environment. Why then do we not hear of it more often?

A few very helpful menstrual cup tips for beginners about to give up the ecologically disastrous sanitary pads