Siddhartha Sharma Charitable Trust (Regd.)

Definition It’s the middle of the night or maybe the beginning of a busy workday when you suddenly feel pain in your chest. You try to ignore it at first, but your chest pain has you scared and worried. Could you be having a heart attack? Should you go to the emergency room? Chest pain [...]

Are you among the 6.2 million people in the India who have diabetes but don’t know it? I ask because an estimated one-third of the almost 21 million Indians who have this cruel disease don’t even know it. Since 90 percent to 95 percent of people with diabetes have type 2 (adult onset) diabetes, chances [...]

Is this topic for you? This topic provides information about asthma in teens and adults. If you are looking for information about asthma in children age 12 and younger, see the topic Asthma in Children. What is asthma? Asthma causes swelling and inflammation in the airways that lead to your lungs. When asthma flares up, [...]

After our family and friends hear that we have been diagnosed with breast cancer, they often tend to think we should be resting, or at least reducing our activities, and that it’s in our best interests to suddenly become a couch potato. Actually, just the opposite is true. Some good, old-fashioned exercise is what you [...]

Eating tomatoes to help prevent cancer, garlic to prevent AIDS or drinking fruit juice to ward off Alzheimer’s? Despite a bevy of research, the impact of food on killer diseases remains to be proved. Scientists agree that a balanced quality diet is key to good health, and most governments in past years have urged citizens [...]