Category: Health

Hallucination, the ability to sense things absent from the external environment, has nothing to do with imagining things

We are all familiar with the saying ‘too much of a good thing is bad’, despite which we give in to the temptation to indulge…

Anesthesiologists are your heart, your lungs, your brain, your kidneys and liver and your consciousness… while the surgeon is operating

Mr Mrinal Roy’s “The Legend will remain” (Mauritius Times No 3366) is very informative about the late Muhammad Ali, including his struggles against various injustices and that despite

Un public trop indulgent envers tout et n’importe quoi paie les pots cassés à la longue. Des contrariétés qui irritent, énervent et dérangent la quiétude de tout et

In the ongoing advisories meted out by health professionals to their peers and the public at large, the focus has been on the content and type of food

We always thought that we are the brain and the brain is us; but we’ll have to change that conception, because that very brain is continuously being manipulated

In many ways becoming old in today’s world is easier than it was several decades ago, when the means of living were scarce and limited, housing facilities were

Que l’Etat se décharge du fardeau du « Fitness Bureau » est certainement une bonne chose.

Senior students of biology will be familiar with the ‘Tree of Life’ diagram that accompanies this article. Based on Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, it shows the three major

In my article of last week (Nari Shakti – ‘Woman Power’) I narrated an incident told to me by Dr F Ghadially when we were working together at

The country and the people cannot continue to face a catch-22 situation regarding the choice between a patchy government medical service and an unaffordable private medical service ‘I

The middle class’ demands are important in influencing politics, and it is when they stand together with the poor that universality can emerge

The issue of the recruitment of 60 general-duty doctors on a month-to-month basis out of a total of 450 who had applied gives me an opportunity to share

Fasting is willing abstinence or restriction from certain or all food, drink or both for a defined period. The person can opt for no food at all, a