Category: Health

By now it is common knowledge that there are two main kinds of diabetes: Type 1 and Type 2. A third type of diabetes less commonly known is

Preparing for a healthy old age

What’s wrong if the public authorities were to use some mild, non-offensive strategy to make people more compliant to a course of action that will finally benefit the

‘Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks (Charlatans, médecins à gages et attachés de presse de Big Pharma’), is a book written in 2010 by Ben Goldacre,

Specialised medical services

After an outbreak of chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus which affected 270,000 people on the Indian Ocean island of La Réunion in 2005-06, scientists at L’Institut de recherche pour

If we only go by the overwhelmingly negative headlines that crowd the media space on a 24/7 basis, we can be forgiven for being pessimistic about the future

After my last article on Autism and the responsibilities of parents, I have had several calls and even visits from people who asked me to share with them

We have just completed the Autism month in April and apart from a few mentions here and there, not many are really concerned about the state of autism

The FFC is reaction rather than, as ought to have been the case, pro-action. In other words, it is primarily a gross policy failure in the matter of

Reading V. Harris’s letter (Friday 20-26 Dec 2013) in MT really ruffled my feathers up and I will come to that later.

Letter from Delhi

Mr Anil Gujadhur is right when he states in his article ‘Clean up Mauritius – Clean up the World’ in the Mauritius Times of 4th October 2013: “The

After reading about Bernie, the hairdresser (in T.D Fuego’s article in the columns of this paper on 20 Sept 2013), I feel I must share with you about

Despite the information overload, to which we are now subjected on a daily basis, it is always exciting to try to keep up with and follow what is