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International Yoga Day 2025: Check date, significance, and other details

International Yoga Day 2025: Check date, significance, and other details

International Yoga Day not only encourages people to realise this ancient practice’s wellness potential but also to adopt it in their everyday lives

Cognitive aspects at age 7 months may help predict ability at age 30: Study

General cognitive ability, known widely as 'intelligence' or 'IQ', is a composite score that measures one's capacity to learn, reason, understand and solve problems

19 June,2025 06:25 PM IST | Mumbai | PTI

International Yoga Day 2025: India prepares to observe the occasion on June 21

Yoga Sangam will feature a synchronised mass yoga demonstration based on the Common Yoga Protocol (CYP) at over 1 lakh locations across India on June 21

19 June,2025 03:41 PM IST | Mumbai | ANI

What is urological cancer? Know why doctors are highlighting these diseases

In the last three to four months, two Indian health experts say three out of five men were detected with prostate cancer and two with bladder cancer

19 June,2025 02:38 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent

Surge in varicose veins cases being diagnosed in men aged 25-45, say experts

Factors such as prolonged standing or sitting, lack of physical activity, obesity, and even genetics are contributing to the growing number of male patients

19 June,2025 11:02 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent

Busier social life may indicate Alzheimer's disease risk: Study

Researchers found that Alzheimer’s may make people more sociable rather than less -- at least in the early stages

18 June,2025 04:14 PM IST | Mumbai | IANS

Ultrasound of thigh, shoulder muscles may help detect insulin resistance: Study

The study highlights the potential of an ultrasound of muscles in predicting the development of prediabetes or diabetes earlier than current diagnostic methods, researchers said

18 June,2025 03:21 PM IST | Mumbai | PTI

Drinking 1-2 cups of black coffee daily may reduce risk of death by 14 pc: Study

The same link was not observed for coffee with high amounts of added sugar and saturated fat, researchers said

17 June,2025 06:08 PM IST | Mumbai | PTI

Docs save life of 78-yr-old with heart disease, and other inspiring miracles

While one is about a 60-something woman getting life-saving surgery, the other involves an older woman getting operated for a serious heart disease

16 June,2025 05:11 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent

As monsoon season begins, doctors highlight why leptospirosis can be harmful

The monsoon season has arrived in most parts of India, including Mumbai. While the rain brings respite from heat, this is also the time when infections like leptospirosis surge. Here’s why you need to take precautions and not take it for granted

16 June,2025 03:36 PM IST | Mumbai | Raaina Jain

Night shifts may put women at greater risk of asthma: Study

Women who only work nightshifts were around 50 per cent more likely to suffer from moderate or severe asthma compared to women who only work in the daytime

16 June,2025 03:01 PM IST | Mumbai | IANS

Study shows alcohol-linked liver deaths rising in women, young adults

Researchers from the Universities Havard, Stanford, and Southern California (USC) attributed the rise to higher drinking during the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as to increasing health problems like obesity and high blood pressure

15 June,2025 03:44 PM IST | New Delhi | IANS
Night shifts may put women at greater risk of asthma: Study

Night shifts may put women at greater risk of asthma: Study

Women who only work nightshifts were around 50 per cent more likely to suffer from moderate or severe asthma compared to women who only work in the daytime

16 June,2025 03:01 PM IST | Mumbai | IANS
Study shows alcohol-linked liver deaths rising in women, young adults

Study shows alcohol-linked liver deaths rising in women, young adults

Researchers from the Universities Havard, Stanford, and Southern California (USC) attributed the rise to higher drinking during the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as to increasing health problems like obesity and high blood pressure

15 June,2025 03:44 PM IST | New Delhi | IANS
Rising trend of women committing murders: Health experts blame coping skills

Rising trend of women committing murders: Health experts blame coping skills

From a planned honeymoon killing in Meghalaya to a dismembered body found sealed in a cement drum in Meerut, the wave of husband murders has sparked a fierce debate on the mental status of the women committing these ghastly murders

15 June,2025 02:54 PM IST | New Delhi | IANS
Father’s Day: Strategies for mental peace when you can't

Father’s Day: Strategies for mental peace when you can't "fix" the relationship

When Father's Day brings pain instead of joy, learn practical mental health strategies for peace. Experts discuss setting boundaries, self-compassion, and building support when reconciliation isn't an option

15 June,2025 02:25 PM IST | Mumbai | Maitrai Agarwal
Blood Donor Day | Blood donation simple, safe, can make huge impact: JP Nadda

Blood Donor Day | Blood donation simple, safe, can make huge impact: JP Nadda

World Blood Donor Day, celebrated on 14 June every year, serves to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products and to thank voluntary unpaid blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood

14 June,2025 02:18 PM IST | Mumbai | IANS

PHOTOS | Yoga Day 2025: 5 interesting facts related to the ancient practice

Yoga, an ancient Indian practice which focuses on holistic health and harmony with nature, has been adopted across the world in different forms. Ahead of International Yoga Day, observed annually on June 21, here are some interesting facts about the discipline

19 June,2025 10:54 PM IST | Raaina Jain
Maternal exposure to pollution may affect foetal brain structures: Study

Maternal exposure to pollution may affect foetal brain structures: Study

The study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, showed that the changes were linked to brain imbalances, loss of motor coordination, and slow development

14 June,2025 09:49 AM IST | Mumbai | IANS

Breathing patterns unique like fingerprints; may offer insights on health: Study

Breathing patterns unique like fingerprints; may offer insights on health: Study

The findings of the study showed that one's 'respiratory fingerprints' correlated with their body mass index, sleep-wake cycle, levels of depression and anxiety, and even behavioural traits

13 June,2025 06:41 PM IST | Mumbai | IANS

Severe Covid-19 infection in kids may increase heart disease risks: Study

Severe Covid-19 infection in kids may increase heart disease risks: Study

The study indicated that in children suffering from severe infection with SARS-COV-2 virus, the health risks may go beyond the acute viral infection and can harm the heart

13 June,2025 05:59 PM IST | Mumbai | IANS

Blood transfusion key for effective healthcare, emergency response: WHO

Blood transfusion key for effective healthcare, emergency response: WHO

World Blood Donor Day is marked annually on June 14. This year, the theme is 'Give blood, give hope: together we save lives'

13 June,2025 02:56 PM IST | Mumbai | IANS

Pulmonologist on the dangerous impact of Air Pollution in Mumbai

    Pulmonologist on the dangerous impact of Air Pollution in Mumbai

    Dr Lancelot Pinto, consultant pulmonologist and epidemiologist at the P.D.Hinduja Hospital and Medical Research Centre, sheds light on effects of poor air quality and what early warning signs we must pay attention to. In a chat with mid-day, he also spoke about the city’s deteriorating air quality and its possible connection with the increase in lifestyle diseases, the risks linked to exposure to air pollution, and the efficacy of masks and air purifiers, impact of construction dust on health and lifestyle of the citizens among other things.

    31 January,2025 01:55 PM IST
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