Is COVID-19 lethal for your heart?

'The larger number of patients, who are being affected by COVID-19, are essentially people who have a history of heart disease to begin with, and then experience a more severe form of the infection......

COVID-19: Indian-Americans raise funds for relief work

Several eminent Indian-American groups in the United States have raised funds and deployed volunteers to help community members, including first responders, health workers, students and labourers......

From Bhopal to Boston these kids are taking on Dow

Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore meets the guiding spirit behind the Children Against Dow-Carbide in Bhopal. In September 2008 a group of 500 people chained themselves up outside the official......

Mobile phones that could save your life

When fierce storms hit California in early January, submerging streets and felling power lines, Steve Livingston was prepared. Armed with a text message alert from the San Mateo County Office of......