Topic: Diseases

Published by HarperCollins India, In Sickness and in Death: How Faith, Medicine and Race Shaped British India by Ipshita Nath will be released on 20 August, on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching non-fiction books.

Researchers found coexistence of diabetes & hypertension starts surging at 40, climbs until late 50s & then levels off around 70. Nearly one in 20 adults in study had both conditions.

Experts say that the episode exposes a deeper vulnerability — not just in AI systems, but in the broader knowledge ecosystem increasingly shaped by them.

In a rare and emotional revelation, Salman Khan opened up about his seven-and-a-half-year battle with trigeminal neuralgia—a condition so painful, it’s often called the “suicidal disease”.

More than 10 letters & testimonials from doctors & vets, accessed by ThePrint, lay out the health challenges of locking up stray dogs in shelters, both for animals and humans.

Testosterone reduces production of virus-fighting protein while increasing capacity to fight bacterial infections, researchers from UK & Sweden find in study published in Nature.

The Exodus Effect guidebook has become popular on social media, and many people consider it a holy oil.

A meeting of Commonwealth leaders in Rwanda has spurred the Kigali Declaration, an agreement to combine forces to end neglected tropical diseases.

If you have enough vitamin C in your diet, anything extra will be excreted. But it might help people with diabetes and high cholesterol.

It gets everywhere. While treatable, it is also stigmatised, under-reported, often misdiagnosed, and the itch can be seriously unpleasant.