Last week, I took my friend and colleague Asher Samuel (shown in the photo) to Khyber Teaching hospital when he got severe diarrhea with blood in stool. Asher had...

Food sustains and nourishes us. Without it we would literally starve to death, and yet, some foods themselves can actually make us very sick, even causing death. For...

Cigua-what? I had never heard of the word until I was reading about an outbreak of Ciguatera in Palm Beach County, Florida recently. At least 10 people have been...

It’s a dirty little secret of food poisoning: E. coli and certain other foodborne illnesses can sometimes trigger serious health problems months or years after...

Rahul Mahajan was admitted first to AIIMS and later to Apollo Hospital at 3 AM morning due to suspected poisoning. His secretary Vivek Maitra was brought dead....