Sharma, Kini star in New York safety ratings

Though heart disease is increasing in America, it is taking fewer lives than it used to, says Dr Samin Sharma, director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. Sharma......

Rare heart surgery saves NRI couple's baby

When the renowned Mount Sinai Hospital in New York refused to perform surgery on a 15-month-old boy, son of an Indian-American couple, with choked arteries due to the high risk factors involved,......

Doctor who did 20,000 angioplasties speaks

"When your work is appreciated by 80 percent of the people, you are doing a good job. If the appreciation is only 50 percent, you may not be doing things properly. In my case, 95 percent of my......

DECODED: Why COVID-19 infects less kids than adults

Lower levels of ACE2 gene expression in nasal epithelium, the first point of contact for SARS-CoV-2 and the human body, may explain why children have a lower risk of Covid-19 infection and......

Oscar winner Anne Bancroft dead

Anne Bancroft, who won the 1962Oscar for Best Actress as the teacher of a young Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker but achieved greater fame as the seductive Mrs Robinson in The Graduate, is dead.......

Comedian Joan Rivers passes away at 81

Comedian Joan Rivers passed away on September 4, after she was hospitalised post cardiac arrest in New York. She was 81. In a statement, Rivers’ daughter Melissa said that her mother’s......