Health

NGOs organise a festival at Lalbagh to create awareness on genetically modified food.

Rapidly coming off a cool winter, Bengaluru is back to the usual: hit by water and electricity shortages. Be it combating seasonal ailments or dealing with shortages, know what’s going on and what is to come.

Simple, natural, safe and within reach, home remedies offer inexpensive and effective cure for common ailments.

Lead, a brain poison, is a serious childhood health risk; And Bengaluru residents seems to be quite vulnerable to lead poisoning.

A student of yoga finds the practice, as well as, her teacher noble and uplifting.

Meet the man who played a major role in developing and marketing an indigenous heart valve, costing a fraction of the imported valves, which alleviates the suffering of many poor cardiac patients in Asia, especially children.

An interview with a Bengaluru-based Naturopath tells us how the human body can be healed if it is aligned in harmony with nature.

This was written on 30th November 2006. And it’s two years since my mother said her last goodbyes, from a place that became her second home. Ours too, because we shared every moment of the peace, calm and tranquility that she experienced at Karunashraya.

Safety regulations being violated all around isn’t new, especially on hazardous waste. But how do things look when there is compliance? Come up to speed with this Citizen Matters inquiry.

On 30th November, in a run-up to World AIDS Day (1st December), city-based MBA students engaged the public in an awareness event on this dreaded syndrome.

Walk 15 minutes a day without footwear and you will let the earth seep into your being. In a month, you will start feeling a new strength, says Manjushree Abhinav.

A play about suicidal tendencies in individuals seeks to raise funds for SAHAI – a Bangalore helpline for people in similar distress. Read on and chip in.