Category: Health

By Nita Chicooree-Mercier

Undeniably, every step forward in the development of technology and science aimed at bringing more comfort, alleviating sufferings… is a piece of heartening news

Foolish indeed would be the man who would wish to live beyond the normal span of life. Faced with a life racked with pain and misery, I don’t

50 years ago — The human heart transplant, led by Dr Christiaan Barnard, was made possible by an extraordinary interplay of scientific dedication, human courage and generosity and

Savez-vous ce qu’ont de commun Franklin Roosevelt, la médaillée olympique Wilma Rudolph, et l’actrice Mia Farrow ? Tous avaient contracté le virus de la polio

Hallucination, the ability to sense things absent from the external environment, has nothing to do with imagining things

We are all familiar with the saying ‘too much of a good thing is bad’, despite which we give in to the temptation to indulge…

Anesthesiologists are your heart, your lungs, your brain, your kidneys and liver and your consciousness… while the surgeon is operating

Mr Mrinal Roy’s “The Legend will remain” (Mauritius Times No 3366) is very informative about the late Muhammad Ali, including his struggles against various injustices and that despite

Un public trop indulgent envers tout et n’importe quoi paie les pots cassés à la longue. Des contrariétés qui irritent, énervent et dérangent la quiétude de tout et

In the ongoing advisories meted out by health professionals to their peers and the public at large, the focus has been on the content and type of food

We always thought that we are the brain and the brain is us; but we’ll have to change that conception, because that very brain is continuously being manipulated

In many ways becoming old in today’s world is easier than it was several decades ago, when the means of living were scarce and limited, housing facilities were

Que l’Etat se décharge du fardeau du « Fitness Bureau » est certainement une bonne chose.

Senior students of biology will be familiar with the ‘Tree of Life’ diagram that accompanies this article. Based on Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, it shows the three major