Pre-eclampsia: How high blood pressure in pregnancy becomes an emergency
Warning signs of Pre-eclampsia include: severe headache, blurred vision, upper abdominal pain,…
Trapped periods: When menstrual blood has nowhere to go in the body
Hematometrocolpos is a rare but treatable condition in which menstrual blood gets trapped between…
Before the first vaccine, there is breast milk
Days-old twins were fed porridge instead of breast milk; one did not…
Why some babies are born with a flat skull, bulging eyes, small jaw
Anencephaly is a serious birth defect caused by insufficient folic acid during…
Postpartum Psychosis: It is not witchcraft… childbirth can trigger hallucinations
Imagine your first days of motherhood clouded by haunting visions and whispers…
Haemorrhoids: Why emptying bowels drives you crazy
Haemorrhoids - swollen veins in the rectum - can make sitting, walking…
Torn, Twisted, Gone: Inside the emergency that can cost you a testicle
Testicular torsion is when the testicle throws a tantrum, spins on itself…
Golden Baby, Silent Alarms: When lip-smacks, blank stares, signal danger
Babies born before 37 weeks are at higher risk of jaundice. So…
Living on the ground floor, negative politics and social media can trigger depression
Depression, on average, affects more women due to early puberty, menses, pregnancies,…
High Blood Pressure: ‘I thought I was fine…until I could not move or speak’
It was a hemorrhagic stroke, in which a blood vessel in the…
