Her bones are brittle. Her skin is like ‘papier mache’ stretched over a skeleton. Her wrists are twisted inwards, her fingers are bent and fisted towards her palms,...

An Australian hospital has identified a spike in violent “werewolf” patients when there is a full moon.

Poor, helpless parents of Anjum Ara of Hazari bagh, Ranchi. Their only child, Anjum was married with great fanfare to a monster Javed Akhtar who with his family was not...

I am ashamed of this India Born and brought up in India has given me patriotic liberty. I can be at the same time be a proud Indian but there are incidences which make...

A strange epidemic which hit parts of Adamawa and Borno states, has claimed 100 lives, leaving a thousand others hospitalised. The disease, which started from Mahi...

Thousands of women are having to give birth outside maternity wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital beds. The lives of mothers and babies are being put at...

Germany’s Bundestag had just legalised a right of terminally ill patients to voluntarily reject a use of a life support system while being in an unconscious state,...

I don’t generally write about other regions, but I couldn’t pass these up. First, a Taiwanese carpenter presented only by his surname Lee was indicted...

Yesterday, a friend of mine who is a wonderful but broke-ass college student, showed me a collection letter that she received and even though receiving a collection...

Hundreds of people are being drawn to a Catholic hospital in Springfield by what they say looks like an image of the Virgin Mary in a window.

A patient treated for agonising abdominal pain received this surprising news in the hospital’s paperwork: “Based on your visit today, we know you are...

Many hospitals have stepped up efforts to encourage regular hand washing by doctors. But what about their clothes?

A north suburban family says they will never know for certain if a tumor removed from a young woman two years ago was cancerous, since Children’s Memorial...

Scores of Delhi government hospitals still handling piles of papers and hard copy of medical records shall soon be able to do without it - they are set to go...

According to the Ayurvedavatarana (the “descent of Ayurveda”), ayurveda first came into being when the Hindu deity Brahma had a revelation,after which he...

All doggies they say go to heaven. The lucky ones go to Blue Cross Animal Shelter and Hospital at Keshav Nagar Pune. If you have a heart for anything that’s...

A maternity unit has been accused of neglect following the death of a first-time mother.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. In my search for better health I discovered the Rife Resonator. I heard about it from a family friend (as it usually...

A 17-year-old girl gave birth secretly at home, then walked four blocks to a hospital with the baby still attached by its umbilical cord.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell is recovering in a Brazilian hospital, after undergoing an emergency abdominal surgery last Monday. Naomi was admitted in order to remove a...