Seoul, May 1 : South Korea confirmed five more cases of mpox on Monday, bringing the country’s total to 47, health authorities said. Three patients are from Seoul, and the...

Chennai, May 1 : A medical team led by Joint Director of Health, Tirupattur, Dr K.Marimuthu will conduct an inquiry into the deaths of nine people allegedly after the “treatment”...

New Delhi, May 1 : The global medical devices market is poised for significant growth in the coming years, with the sexual and reproductive health segment expected to experience robust...

Chennai, May 1 : Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras have developed a Machine Learning (ML)-based computational tool for better detection of cancer-causing tumours in the brain...

Ahmedabad, May 1 : Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel skipped the Gujarat Day events on Monday following the critical condition of his son, who has been airlifted to a Mumbai hospital....

Mumbai, May 1 : The Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital (KDAH) has launched a pioneering ‘Hereditary Cancer Clinic’ to provide personalised cancer care to patients with the latest precision oncology care,...

New York, May 1 : The US researchers have designed a robot hand, the first device of its kind, to join an advanced sense of touch with motor-learning algorithms and...

New Delhi, May 1 : Long-term air pollution has now been found to be associated with an increased risk of arrhythmia or irregular heartbeat, researchers report. Air pollution is a...

Lucknow, May 1 : Uttar Pradesh is all set to get two more multi-specialty hospitals as part of the investments promised during the investors’ summit held in February this year....

Lucknow, May 1 : Lucknow has reported the highest Covid-19 cases in Uttar Pradesh with 64 more people testing positive for the infection in the past 24 hours, health officials...

Lucknow, April 30 : Four Covid-19 deaths have been reported from Uttar Pradesh in the past 24 hours, including one each from Lucknow, Meerut, Agra and Sultanpur. As many as...

Dar Es Salaam, April 30 : Tanzanian health authorities have said that an 18-month-old child has died of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in the northwestern region of Kagera. The death...

New York, April 29 : ChatGPT outperforms physicians in providing high-quality, empathetic advice to patient questions, according to a study. There has been widespread speculation about how advances in artificial...

New Delhi, April 29 : Even as the last three years of Covid-pandemic, has among many things, severely affected routine immunisation of children, health experts on Saturday urged the need...

Moscow, April 29 : A team of Russian researchers has uncovered the mechanisms behind the emergence of new and dangerous coronavirus variants, such as Alpha, Delta, Omicron, and others. The...

London, April 29 : The UK has begun the first human clinical trials of a new Zika vaccine, after it showed promising results in animal studies. The vaccine is being...

New York, April 29 : A conference to track the Covid-19 progress in the US by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), last week, has left many attendees...

Washington, April 29 : The new Omicron subvariant XBB.1.16 is spreading fast in the US, becoming the second dominant Covid-19 strain in the country, according to the latest data by...

Washington, April 29 : A total of 145 paediatric flu deaths have been reported in the US so far this season, according to the latest data published by the US...

Gaborone, April 29 : Authorities from Botswana’s Ministry of Health and Wellness has said that 3,70,000 children aged seven years and below were vaccinated against the circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type...

Belgrade, April 29 : Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic made a public appearance in the east of the country, refuting claims that he had been urgently admitted to hospital due to...

Hyderabad, April 28 : Urologists at Asian Institute of Nephrology & Urology (AINU), Secunderabad have successfully removed 154 stones from the right kidney of a 45-year-old male patient. The patient,...

San Francisco, April 28 : An hour-ling endoscopic procedure that uses controlled electrical pulses to modify the lining of the first part of the small intestine may help patients with...

San Francisco, April 28 : Overture Life, a Spanish startup, which developed a sperm-injecting robot that can be controlled using a PlayStation controller, has successfully fertilised human eggs, giving birth...

Canberra, April 28 : Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a major overhaul of the country’s health system. Following a meeting with state and territory leaders on Friday, Albanese...

New Delhi, April 28 : A large international study jointly led by Uppsala University in Sweden and the Broad Institute in the US, that analysed the genomes of 240 mammal...

Lucknow, April 28 : A team of palliative care experts, from the King George’s Medical University (KGMU) will soon start home visits for terminally ill patients in the state capital....

Washington, April 28 : The largest recorded West Nile virus (WNV) outbreak in a US county occurred in Maricopa, Arizona, in 2021, according to a new report published by the...

Lucknow, April 28 : As many as 510 fresh Covid cases were reported in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday whereas one patient from Jaunpur succumbed to the infection, taking the toll...

New Delhi, April 28 : Delhi reported seven Covid-related fatalities for the second consecutive day on Thursday and registered 865 fresh coronavirus cases with a positivity rate of 16.9 per...

Srinagar, April 27 : Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Thursday laid the foundation stone of Kashmir Medical College and Super-Speciality Hospital being developed by Milli Trust, Delhi,...

Sydney, April 27 : The Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine, used to treat tuberculosis since the last 100 years, is not effective against SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind Covid-19 infections, according to...

New Delhi, April 27 : Doctors here used a novel three-pronged approach with the most advanced minimal heart invasive technique to save the life of a 79-year-old man suffering from...

New York, April 27 : A team of scientists from the University of Missouri, in the US, are on the scout for a patient who has been carrying a cryptic...

London, April 27 : Boys and girls who eat a handful of walnuts a day, or at least three times a week can have substantial improvements in cognitive abilities, including...

Nagpur, April 27 : RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday called for extending public support to the healthcare system particularly the cancer treatment for marginally poor sections of the society....

Tokyo, April 27 : Japan on Thursday decided to officially downgrade the legal status of Covid-19 to the same category of seasonal influenza, with the new status coming into effect...

New York, April 27 : After people with long Covid received the Covid-19 vaccine, they produced antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 virus for months longer than expected, according to a study. This...

Hyderabad, April 27 : Drugs Control Administration of Telangana has directed drug inspectors in the state to keep a strict vigil on the movement of a mislabelled batch of thyroid...

Chennai, April 27 : The National Medical Devices Policy, 2023 will fulfill Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s and India’s aspirations to be self-reliant with regard to medical devices, said a top...

London, April 27 : Even mild cases of Covid-19 raised arterial stiffness in young adults, increasing long-term detrimental effects on cardiovascular health, according to a study, led by an international...

Lucknow, April 27 : Uttar Pradesh reported 627 fresh Covid cases in the last 24 hours, with one death recorded in Bulandshahr. The test positivity rate in the state stood...

Nairobi, April 27 : Kenya’s Health Ministry has said that it had stepped up vaccination targeting vulnerable groups like children and women in order to reduce deaths linked to infectious...

Ankara, April 27 : Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cancelled his scheduled programmes due to a stomach problem, less than three weeks before the presidential elections slated for May 14....

New Delhi, April 26 : The Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside a Gujarat High Court order, holding that Ayurveda practitioners working in government hospitals should be treated at par...

New Delhi, April 26 : The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the National Medical Devices Policy 2023, which is expected to facilitate a structured growth of the medical device sector...

New Delhi, April 26 : The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved setting up of 157 new nursing colleges in co-location with the existing medical colleges, established since 2014. This will...

New York, April 26 : Children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), a rare condition linked with the virus that causes Covid-19, have biochemical indicators of cell injury and cell death...

London, April 26 : UK scientists have conducted the first-ever trial of a new drug for Alzheimer’s disease that is able to safely and successfully lower levels of the harmful...

New Delhi, April 26 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that India’s vision for health was universal even when there were no global pandemics. While inaugurating virtually the...

Jaipur, April 26 : The Union Ministry of Ayush has started making preparations to open OPD and IPD of ayurveda and homeopathy in all the All India Institute of Medical...

New Delhi, April 26 : Postpartum haemorrhage is the biggest contributor to high maternal mortality in India, experts said on Wednesday. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines postpartum haemorrhage (PPH)...

Chennai, April 26 : The Tamil Nadu health department continues its vigil with regard to Covid-19 cases.However, the number of fresh Coronavirus cases has come down. In the 24 hours...

Bhubaneswar, April 26 : Odisha on Wednesday reported detection of 542 Covid-19 cases and one death. As per the latest official figures, of 7571 new samples tested, 542 (all above...

London, April 26 : Long periods of sitting time can be harmful to our health, even if you exercise regularly.Light intensity walking for 3 minutes every 30 minutes can help...

Washington, April 26 : Some 15.6 million children in the US are reported to have tested positive for Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic in early 2020, according to...

London, April 26 : Increased use of antibiotics in agriculture, to control infections and as growth promoters, may breed bacteria that is resistant to the immune system — human body’s...

New Delhi, April 26 : Apple is reportedly working on an AI-powered health coaching service to help users exercise, improve eating habits and sleep better. Code named ‘Quartz’, several teams...

Islamabad, April 26 : The Pakistan Health Ministry announced that the country has recorded its first ever case of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox. In a statement on Tuesday, the...

Taipei, April 26 : Taiwan plans to put Covid-19 in the same category of notifiable communicable diseases as influenza from May 1, the local disease monitoring agency said. Covid-19 is...

New York, April 25 : Returning in-person for the first time since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, over 1,000 young leaders from around the world are in New York...

New Delhi, April 25 : The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a Madras High Court order, which quashed a May 2018 notification prohibiting sale, manufacture, and transport of gutkha, and...

Guwahati, April 25 : Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati have developed liquid marbles using nano clay that can be pre-programmed for drug delivery and cascade chemical...

Beijing, April 25 : Scientists in China have identified strains of influenza A-H3N2 virus, circulating in dogs that might be gaining the capacity to spill over into humans. Influenza A...

New York, April 25 : A novel mobile vaccine printer, developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US, may one day help people get vaccinated...

New Delhi, April 25 : Poor air quality in India could be causing cognitive deficits in babies and toddlers, according to new research. Researchers from the University of East Anglia...

New Delhi, April 25 : Doctors in Pune gave a toddler, suffering from rare pneumonia, a fresh lease of life. Varath (name changed), aged 2.5 years old was suffering from...

Lucknow, April 25 : Experts at a cadaveric workshop on arthroscopy at King George’s Medical University (KGMU) have said that if one is suffering from frequent dislocation of the shoulder...

Bhubaneswar, April 25 : As many as 393 fresh Covid-19 cases were reported in Odisha during the past 24 hours, taking the total number of active cases to 3086. According...

New Delhi, April 25 : Advertisements should be banned for unhealthy food products, as it is increasing consumption of ultra processed foods which is in turn driving a surge in...

By Rachel V ThomasNew Delhi, April 25 : India’s vision to be malaria-free by 2027 and to eliminate the disease by 2030 is absolutely possible, but some challenges remain, said...

Lucknow, April 25 : Uttar Pradesh has recorded a slight fall in new Covid-19 cases with 369 people testing positive for the infection in the last 24 hours. On April...

Jaipur, April 24 : A two-year-old boy named Tanishq, who was suffering from a rare disease called spinal muscular atrophy, died after his family’s every effort to procure an injection...

New Delhi, April 24 : In wake of prohibiting illegal sale of contaminated water in various forms, the Delhi High Court has asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to...

New Delhi, April 24 : Doctors here have restored mobility of a elderly woman weighing 142 kg, after a successful total knee replacement surgery on both knees. “This is the...

New Delhi, April 24 : The market for telemedicine and remote patient monitoring (RPM) has been rapidly expanding, driven by the Covid-19 pandemic and the need for remote healthcare delivery,...

New Delhi, April 24 : The Omicron subvariant XBB.1.16, present in 33 countries, is making a fresh surge in Covid infections as well as deaths in Italy, the US, the...

Sydney, April 24 : Researchers have identified a gene that controls the cut-off switch for kidney inflammation and could pave the way for more precise disease diagnostics and personalised treatment...

Canberra, April 24 : The Australian government has committed new funding for research into long Covid, Health Minister Mark Butler announced on Monday. Butler announced that A$50 million ($33 million)...

Phnom Penh, April 24 : Cambodia has seen a sharp drop in malaria cases in the last 11 years, recording no deaths from the disease since 2018, Prime Minister Hun...

London, April 24 : Vitamin D levels may be key in determining the human body’s response to anti-cancer immunotherapy, especially among people with advanced skin cancer, according to a study....

Seoul, April 24 : South Korea confirmed 10 more cases of mpox on Monday, bringing the country’s total to 30, health authorities said. Six of them are living in Seoul,...

San Francisco, April 24 : Researchers have identified how healthy neurons metabolise glucose, an advance which may have implications for understanding neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The human brain...

London, April 24 : Babies’ gut consists of more than 200 previously unknown viral families within their intestines, which likely plays an important role in protecting children from chronic diseases...

Hyderabad, April 24 : Leading surgeon Dr Raghu Ram Pillarisetti has received lifetime achievement award by the Telugu Association of London. Dr Raghuram is the founding director of AKIMS-Ushalakshmi Centre...

Lucknow, April 24 : A total of 240 people have tested positive for the novel Coronavirus infection in Lucknow in the past 48 hours, taking the active caseload count to...

Gurugram, April 23 : The Gurugram traffic police on Sunday created a 12-km green corridor for an ambulance to help transport a lung from Nagpur by air from IGI Airport...

Lucknow, April 23 : Medical experts have warned against mass gatherings like weddings that are becoming a superspreader for Covid cases. According to medical experts form King George’s Medical University...

New York, April 23 : A team of scientists at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine has identified a key player that helps prevent “insulin shock” and...

New Delhi, April 23 : Most parents are concerned about potential long-term risks from the Covid-19 vaccine for their children and some fear they’ll be held responsible if their child...

New Delhi, April 22 : A severe outbreak of dengue fever in Argentina has killed more than 40 people and infected over 60,000, the media reported. Dengue is the most...

New York, April 22 : Women with an earlier diagnosis of colorectal cancer could be at an increased risk as well as raise raise odds of adverse outcomes in babies,...

New Delhi, April 22 : Amid the recent rise in Covid-19 cases in India, driven by the subvariant of Omicron XBB.1.16, there has been an increase in risk of conjunctivitis...

New York, April 22 : While the current standard for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in women is a three-dose regimen, even a single dose is highly effective and provides...

New York, April 22 : Scientists have created a promising injectable cell therapy to treat osteoarthritis that both reduces inflammation and also regenerates articular cartilage. Recently identified by the US...

Bengaluru, April 22 : Karnataka registered 537 fresh Covid cases in the past 24 hours, state health department said on Saturday. As per official statistics, 15 persons have died in...

New Delhi, April 22 : The World Health Organization (WHO) has upgraded Omicron subvariant XBB.1.16 to a Covid-19 “variant of interest” (VOI) due to its “sustained increase” and “growth advantage”...

Los Angeles, April 22 : There have been at least 26 million flu illnesses, 290,000 hospitalisations, and 19,000 deaths from flu so far this season in the US, according to...

Los Angeles, April 22 : A new Omicron subvariant is spreading in the United States, and has accounted for nearly 10 per cent of new weekly Covid-19 cases reported across...

Washington, April 22 : The US Supreme Court has preserved access to a widely used abortion pill, ruling the drug can remain available in the market while a lawsuit in...

Addis Ababa, April 22 : Some 12 million children in Eastern and Southern Africa missed out entirely or partially on routine immunisation from 2019 to 2021, the United Nations Children’s...

New Delhi, April 21 : Ten-year-old Arushi Mashery born with a rare condition, where her urethra, vagina, and rectal openings did not separate at birth and were joined together, opening...

New Delhi, April 21 : The Delhi High Court on Friday granted more time to the Central government to file its reply in a plea raising te issue of the...

London, April 21 : The origins of the deadly Covid virus, which infected over 763 million and claimed more than 6.9 million lives globally, may never be revealed, a top...

New Delhi, April 21 : Covid-19 and the climate crisis, which have caused unprecedented disruptions across the world, had a similar negative impact on young Indians’ mental health, showed a...

Kolkata, April 21 : A senior citizen in Kolkata reportedly died of Covid-19 on Friday, taking the death toll due to the Coronavirus in West Bengal to four in the...

New York, April 21 : The rate of suspected suicide attempts by poisoning rose among children as young as 10 years of age in the US during Covid-19 pandemic, according...

New York, April 21 : Stem cells which get stuck as people age may be the reason why our hairs turn grey, US scientists have found. The team from New...

Guwahati, April 21 : After a Hepatitis A outbreak in North Guwahati’s Amingaon left seven people dead, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma visited the area to take stock of...

Dhaka, April 21 : Valid immunisation coverage in Bangladesh remains high, with almost 84 per cent of children receiving their vaccines by 12 months of age, according to a new...

Lucknow, April 21 : Uttar Pradesh has registered five new Covid deaths, increasing concerns of the government. The fatalities were reported from Ghaziabad, Jaunpur, Sultanpur, Ghazipur, and Chandauli. It is...

New Delhi, April 20 : With the number of daily Covid cases rising rapidly in the national capital, the Delhi High Court has made it compulsory for lawyers, staff and...

New Delhi, April 20 : Climate models have predicted that El Nino is on the horizon, which can lead to severe heat waves and droughts, in many countries, including India....

New Delhi, April 20 : Gut bacteria that break down a sugar known as “fucose” could be compromising our immune response to the Covid mRNA vaccine, a study has revealed....

Dhanbad, April 20 : Around 150 people fell ill after eating food at a village fair in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad district, an official said on Thursday. The incident occurred on Wednesday...

New York, April 20 : Are you diabetic? Avoid sugar-sweetened beverages like sodas, fruit punch, and lemonade to cut down the risk of premature death, according to a study. The...

New Delhi, April 20 : A Chinese tourism advertisement portraying a medieval Buddhist fantasy, shot in the prayer hall of Xinjiang’s second-largest mosque, has alarmed the Uyghur diaspora, which is...

Gurugram, April 20 : A joint team of Haryana Chief Minister’s Flying Squad and Health Department on Thursday raided a hospital which was functioning illegally in Gurugram’s Bajghera village. The...

Lucknow, April 20 : In novel reformative surgeries, doctors at the prosthodontics department at the King George’s Medical University (KGMU) have recreated the right hand of a 23-year-old woman and...

New York, April 20 : Women who experienced depression during pregnancy are more likely to be diagnosed with cardiovascular disease within two years after giving birth, according to a study...

Canberra, April 20 : The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has become the first jurisdiction in the country to offer free abortions. From Thursday, the ACT government will entirely subsidize medical...

London, April 20 : A team of German scientists has developed a ‘mini-heart’ that is just 0.5 millimetres in size to study the earliest development phase of the human heart...

New York, April 20 : Exposure to ultrafine particles during pregnancy enhances the risk for respiratory viral infection, shows a study. During pregnancy, women are more susceptible to severe respiratory...

New Delhi, April 20 : India recorded 12,591 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, which is 20 per cent higher than the previous day. On Wednesday, 10,542 new...

Washington, April 20 : Nearly 120 million people in the US, or more than one in three, live in areas with unhealthy air quality, and people of colour are disproportionately...

Lucknow, April 20 : Uttar Pradesh recorded the highest single-day spike in the last 10 months with 910 fresh Covid cases, and Lucknow alone accounted for 245 of them. Also...

Guwahati, April 19 : More than 50 children at a temporary shelter home in Assam’s Nagaon district suddenly fell ill on Wednesday for unknown reasons, an official said on Wednesday....

Patna, April 19 : Amid the strong heat wave, the district administration in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur decided to close the primary schools for three days, officials said on Wednesday. The meteorological...

Mumbai, April 19 : With 1,100 new cases of Covid-19, the Maharashtra government has started 25 dedicated hospitals for the patients with all other arrangements to treat critical cases, Medical...

New Delhi, April 19 : Amid rising cases of coronavirus across the country, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, P.K.Mishra, on Wednesday undertook a review meeting to oversee the level...

New Delhi, April 19 : Indian diet rich in iron, zinc, and fibre, regular consumption of tea, and use of turmeric in meals lowered severity and death due to Covid...

Toronto, April 19 : Nearly 3-5 per cent cases of onset of diabetes is due to Covid-19, in other words roughly one person in 20 is a diabetic, according to...

Bengaluru, April 19 : Incidence of head and neck cancers is increasing in the city, according to medical experts. Nevertheless, the city has many world-class hospitals and medical facilities that...

Hanoi, April 19 : Hanoi has updated its guidance to ask people to wear face masks in crowded public places as the number of Covid-19 cases has increased to a...

London, April 19 : Patients with severe Covid-19 requiring mechanical ventilation are 16 times more likely to develop life-threatening ventricular tachycardia — a heart rhythm condition — within six months...

New York, April 19 : US researchers have developed a first-ever rapid test for mpox, more commonly known as monkeypox, that uses nanoparticles to detect the highly infectious disease within...

Hyderabad, April 19 : The Telangana government on Wednesday commenced administering booster doses as a precautionary measure in view of increase in Covid-19 cases. The state government has arranged 5...

Kolkata, April 19 : A COVID-19 positive senior citizen died at a state-run hospital in Kolkata, taking the number of deaths in West Bengal due to the virus to three...

Bengaluru, April 19 : World Liver Day is celebrated across the world on April 19 to raise awareness about liver diseases.It focuses on educating people about severity, early detection and...

Los Angeles, April 19 : The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has amended the emergency use authorisations of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 bivalent mRNA vaccines, approving a second...

Kolkata, April 18 : Terming the situation more or less under control, in wake of the rising graph of the Covid-19 situation through the country, the West Bengal Health Department...

New Delhi, April 18 : Even as summers have set in, India has started seeing extreme heat waves, which can be deadly especially for children, pregnant women and elderly, doctors...

Hyderabad, April 18 : The Telangana government has arranged 5 lakh doses of CorBEvax, in spite of the acute shortage of Covid-19 vaccines, a top health official said on Tuesday....

Panaji, April 18 : Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday lauded the tele-consultation services of Goa. “Goa is a small state.But in the health sector, good facilities are being...

New Delhi, April 18 : Increased consumption of alcohol, junk food, high-fat diets, and sugary drinks are driving a spike in liver disease in India, said doctors here, ahead of...

Goa, April 18 : Day 2 of the second Health Working Group meeting under G20 India Presidency saw an important brainstorming session on citizen-centric health delivery ecosystem for universal health...

New Delhi, April 18 : The current increase seen in both Covid infections and deaths due to there is no cause of concern, experts said here on Tuesday, contending that...

New York, April 18 : Scientists have in a breakthrough identified a gene, which when blocked or deactivated via drugs can reduce sperm count. The findings, detailed in the journal...

London, April 18 : The dreaded tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus infects different types of brain cells in different parts of the brain, depending on whether the affected person’s immune system...

Hanoi, April 18 : Vietnam has called for an intensified effort in Covid-19 vaccinations by provincial and municipal health sectors, local media reported on Tuesday. The country’s National Institute of...

New York, April 18 : Increased intake of refined rice and wheat as well as processed red meat, and low consumption of whole grains is causing a significant increase in...

Chennai, April 18 : After complaints of banned pesticides available in some districts, the Tamil Nadu Agriculture Department has formed special squads to conduct surprise checks. The state agriculture department...

London, April 18 : People living with long Covid who suffer from loss of smell show different patterns of activity in certain regions of the brain, a new study has...

Chennai, April 18 : With 521 fresh Covid-19 cases reported in the last 24 hours and a test positivity rate (TPR) of 8.6 per cent, the state public health department...

Bengaluru, April 18 : With 308 fresh Covid cases being recorded in Bengaluru in the last 24 hours, the authorities are concerned with the surge in the number. The surge...

Copenhagen, April 18 : Nearly a year after the mpox (monkeypox) outbreak in the European region of the World Health Organization (WHO), the agency has urged vigilance in Europe over...

New Delhi, April 17 : Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Monday announced that he had tested positive for Covid-19. “My report, following a Covid-19 test undertaken on doctors’ advice,...

London, April 17 : Mortality from Covid-19 in people with intellectual disabilities are five times higher than the general population, according to a study. Intellectual disability is a term used...

Agartala, April 17 : In view of the ongoing intense rising temperatures, the Tripura government on Monday has announced the closure of all the government and government-aided schools in the...

Chennai, April 17 : Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras have developed a novel, non-invasive device to assess the health and age of blood vessels and thereby...

Sydney, April 17 : Long Covid appears to manifest as a post-viral syndrome of no greater incidence or severity than seasonal influenza, finds new research. However, the similarity observed is...

London, April 17 : Remnants of ancient retroviruses passed down in our DNA could be an effective target for antibodies against lung cancer, according to researchers. The early genetic clues...

New Delhi, April 17 : India saw a slight dip in the new Covid cases in the last 24 hours as 9,111 were reported against the previous day’s count of...

Jaipur, April 17 : With the addition of three more deaths, Rajasthan has registered 12 Covid-related deaths in the last four days, officials said. A total of 422 cases were...

New York, April 17 : Allowing your kids to work while studying may improve their money management skills and self-esteem but it can also negatively impact their sleep, schedules and...

Patna, April 17 : After the hooch tragedy in Bihar’s East Champaran that has claimed 31 lives, the district police suspended SHOs of five police stations, an official said on...

Chennai, April 16 : Authorities in Tamil Nadu’s Ranipet have made wearing of face masks mandatory in the district amid surge in Covid cases in the state. District Collector S.Valarmathi...

Navi Mumbai, April 16 : In a tragedy, at least eight persons succumbed to heat stroke and over three dozen have been hospitalised after a mammoth function in which Union...

Guwahati, April 16 : Guwahati Police Commissioner Diganta Barah on Sunday tested positive for Covid-19. Health officials have said that including Barah, there are only two active Covid cases in...

Chandigarh, April 16 : The two-day medical conference ‘Empower Physicians with International Practices in advanced Diabetes Care’ concluded here on Sunday with a motivational keynote by Olympian Abhinav Bindra, who...

Hyderabad, April 16 : Doctors at a hospital in Hyderabad treated a patient with a massive tracheal tumor that was resulting in severe difficulty in breathing. According to doctors, it...

Vadodara, April 16 : Creating shock and astonishment among his family members and neighbours, a resident of Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district, declared dead of Covid in a Gujarat hospital during...

London, April 16 : In an alarming find, researchers have discovered multi drug-resistant E.coli in 40 per cent of supermarket meat samples. The team analysed 100 meat products (25 each...

New Delhi, April 16 : Scientists have identified several protective drugs that may lessen the collateral damage caused by antibiotics without compromising their effectiveness against harmful bacteria. The researchers identified...

New Delhi, April 16 : If you are facing breathless episodes after Covid during the day, also check if you are not able to sleep properly as researchers have now...

Lucknow, April 16 : Lucknow has reported one Covid death and 191 new cases in the past 24 hours. The state capital also reported the recovery of 42 patients. In...

Lucknow, April 16 : A 55-year-old man saved the life of his 20-year-old son by donating his kidney. The son was suffering from end-stage kidney ailment and successful transplant by...

New York, April 15 : People admitted to hospital for the treatment of Covid-19 are likely to have a higher incidence of healthcare associated infections, finds a study. The study,...

London, April 15 : Six pets in Portugal and one in the UK were carrying antibiotic-resistant bacteria similar to those found in their owners, according to a study. Dogs, cats...

London, April 15 : Scientists have identified new mutations in avian influenza virus H5N1, which recently infected a man in Chile, and may pose risk of spread in humans. According...

New York, April 15 : Researchers have found a way to tame pancreatic cancer – one of the most aggressive and difficult to treat cancers – by delivering immunotherapy directly...

London, April 15 : Human body’s rhythms may determine our behaviour, according to a smartphone-based study. Researchers from the Leiden University in the Netherlands analysed the usage data of hundreds...

Chennai, April 15 : Even as the Tamil Nadu has been maintaining that the Covid surge in the state is not fearsome, the public health department has warned the elderly...

New Delhi, April 15 : In the last 24 hours, India reported 27 Covid-19 deaths, the highest single-day fatalities in the past six months, according to official figures issued by...

New York, April 15 : A T-cell based Covid vaccine may last longer than the current jabs, providing long-lasting immunity against future emerging variants and could be used as a...

Nairobi, April 15 : Kenya’s Health Ministry has said that it has commenced a probe into the deaths of three students and one senior teacher in two secondary schools in...

Mumbai, April 14 : At least 10 districts in Maharashtra have recorded maximum day temperatures upwards of 40 degrees Celsius in mid-April, with Chandrapur the hottest at 43.2 degrees and...

New Delhi, April 14 : With India currently seeing a rise in both Covid and influenza cases, many people are likely to be co-infected by the viruses, which can turn...

New Delhi, April 14 : Two separate cases of attack by street dogs were reported from Delhi’s Rohini area – one where a six-year-old girl was attacked by a pack...

Sydney, April 14 : Scientists have discovered the way chia seeds are eaten could determine how much or how little dietary fibre benefits people get and grinding them up could...

Guwahati, April 14 : Inaugurating the first All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) of the northeastern region in Guwahati, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday slammed the previous governments...

Sydney, April 14 : People who suffer from mild Covid-19 infection could be at risk of sudden deafness and hearing loss, according to a study. Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL)...

New Delhi, April 14 : India recorded as many as 11,109 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, as per the Ministry of Health and Family Affairs’ data on...

Jerusalem, April 14 : US pharma giant Pfizer’s new bivalent mRNA-based Covid booster vaccine has shown to be highly effective in reducing hospitalisation and deaths, particularly in vulnerable patients aged...

London, April 14 : Finding it hard to quit smoking? British researchers have developed a stop-smoking mobile app that senses where and when you might be triggered to light up...

Hyderabad, April 14 : The Telangana State Medical Council has suspended the license of a private doctor for six months for operating on the healthy right leg of a patient...

Wellington, April 14 : Storms like Cyclone Gabrielle will increasingly affect people’s health in New Zealand as the climate changes, said climate and health experts on Friday. The damages caused...

Lucknow, April 14 : The fresh Covid-19 cases, reported in Uttar Pradesh has touched a new high with 575, the highest in a single day this year, officials said on...

Mogadishu, April 14 : Flash and riverine floods caused by heavy rains in Somalia could exacerbate outbreak of waterborne diseases, the UN humanitarian agency warned. The UN Office for the...

Abuja, April 14 : Nigeria recorded four more Lassa fever deaths in the past week, raising the death toll to 148 since the beginning of the year, health authorities said....