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Heart Disease Breakthrough: The One-Time Treatment That May End Daily Cholesterol Meds Heart disease is the world’s leading cause of death across the world but a new scientific chapter may be unfolding. What if managing cholesterol did not always mean daily pills, relentless diet tracking or stressing about missed doses? According to a recent trial…
For millions across the world, blindness often begins quietly, with gradual retinal damage that goes unnoticed until it is too late. Now, a new scientific breakthrough could change that future. According to a recent study by Aalto University, published in Nature Communications, researchers have created a non-invasive laser treatment capable of repairing early retinal damage…
Bengaluru: When 68-year-old Pradeep Kenneth Daniels from Kodagu felt a familiar, tight pain in his chest in Aug, he feared the worst. A decade earlier, the retired project financial controller had survived a heart attack and received four stents. This time, though initial tests like ECG and echocardiogram appeared normal, a coronary angiogram revealed a…
Gender biases and the perceived notions of what is considered ‘normal’ in the entertainment industry have recently been questioned by those who are part of it, and others who are affected by it. Not that the sanctimonious beliefs have affected, but the communication helped fill the gap of voicing out concerns in the open. However,…
India’s Sanju Samson (ANI) Former India opener Aakash Chopra has criticised the team management for its confusing approach towards wicketkeeper-batter Sanju Samson, who appears to have lost his place in the XI following Jitesh Sharma’s emergence. Samson, who batted at number three during the Australia tour, was dropped from the playing XI after just one…
COIMBATORE: Tailor Raja, an accused in the 1998 Coimbatore bomb blast case who was arrested 27 years after the serial bomb explosions that claimed 58 lives, on Thursday received treatment in the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH) for neck pain.Raja was arrested by the Coimbatore Anti-Terrorism Squad in Bengaluru in July this year. He was…
NEW DELHI: The Gujarat high court on Thursday granted six months’ bail to self-styled godman Asaram in a 2013 rape case in which he is serving a life sentence — nearly a week after the Rajasthan high court granted him bail in a separate, similar case.A division bench of Justices Ilesh Vora and RT Vachhani…
Lovlina Borgohain (Photo by Richard Pelham/Getty Images) New Delhi: Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain will not compete in the season-ending World Boxing Cup Finals in India, TOI has learnt. The former middleweight world champion, who had qualified based on her world ranking in the 75kg weight division, withdrew after undergoing treatment for a nose-related…
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways will now impose penalties on contractors if more than one accident occurs in a year on a specific stretch of National Highway built under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) model, a senior official said.Road Transport and Highways Secretary V Umashankar said the ministry has revised the BOT document to make…
Image credits: iStock, Canva If you have been checking off on your hydration goals daily and yet feel constantly dry in the mouth, then you could likely have dry mouth. Also known as Xerostomia, this is an oral health condition that reduces saliva flow, leading to various symptoms including bad breath, rapid tooth decay and…
