How To Be Aware About Early Heart Disease

'Thirty per cent of the world's deaths in young people, due to heart disease, are Indians.' IMAGE: Kindly note the image has been posted only for representational purposes. Photograph: Kind......

FSSAI: Only 3% of packaged food item contain over 2% trans fat

Food regulator FSSAI on Wednesday said that only 3.14 per cent or 196 of 6,245 samples of packaged food items contained trans-fat exceeding 2 per cent. Food Safety and Standards Authority of India......

Do you have cholesterol? Eat dark chocolate

For all those chocolate lovers, a new study has revealed that daily intake of dark chocolate bars containing plant sterols and cocoa flavanols may reduce cholesterol levels and improve blood......

Manage your health problems without medication

For people who hate taking pills, a little physical exercise and a controlled diet can help you manage your health problems without taking medication. Health experts, in the April 2008 issue of the......

What DeMo really achieved

Declaring demonetisation a complete failure may turn out to be hasty, argues economist Ashok K Lahiri.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Demonetisation of the old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes --......

Sun, Ranbaxy hit by US patent counter-suits

US-based Abbott Laboratories has sued Sun Pharmaceutical Industries and Ranbaxy Laboratories in courts there for challenging the patents of its cholesterol-lowering drugs, Niaspan and TriCor,......

Drug to treat blood disorder: DRL's trial begins

The Phase-1 clinical trials of DRF 10945, a drug candidate discovered by Dr Reddy's Laboratories and targeted for the treatment of blood lipid dysfunction (dyslipidemia), has commenced in Canada.......

Biocon hits big time in US with lovastatin

Bangalore-based Biocon India has managed to garner a 10 per cent market share of the cholesterol lowering drug lovastatin in the United States in less than six months of its launch.The company is......