Your anger can kill you!

An angry heart can kill, suggests a study, which found that rage and hostility are significantly linked with a high risk for coronary disease. According to the research, which appears in the latest......

Pot bellied? Risk of heart diseases is high

Even a moderate bulge at the waist can make a person more susceptible to cardiovascular diseases, says a new study. The research, conducted at the Southwestern Medical Center in the University of......

Navin Nanda to head US cardiologists' body

Dr Navin C Nanda has been elected president of the American Society of Geriatric Cardiology. He is the first Asian American to head the 22-year-old organisation. "With the help of my colleagues, I......

Indian American doctor wins top Filipino honour

Dr Navin C Nanda, professor of medicine and director of the Heart Station/Echocardiography Laboratories at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, US,has been awarded the Maharlika Award in......

Entrepreneurs who rose from the ashes

A word of encouragement for all the entrepreneurs (and every other working stiff, for that matter) scrapping it out in the latest downturn: Recessions--for all the havoc they wreak--can also sow......

India's mushrooming medical cities

In August 1883, the quiet American city of Rochester came tumbling down under a tornado. As 24 people breathed their last, 40 others were left gasping for breath and medical care. The disaster......