Health

As India presses the pedal on a mission to eradicate tuberculosis, public private partnership (PPP) with integrated strategy will be key to achieve ‘TB Mukt Bharat’, Union Minister of State …

Transporting patients in time and that too in an ambulance equipped with the necessary equipment and doctors is essential in critical cases. Making an effort in this direction and aiming …

Inspired and encouraged by his mother to become a doctor, India’s well-known oncologist Dr. Ravi Kannan, who was awarded the Padma Shri in 2020 has been chosen for this year’s …

Striving to provide better and specialised healthcare for people enrolled in Employees State Insurance Corporation, the Government has started chemotherapy services in 30 hospitals under ESIC. Bhupender Yadav, the Union …

Britain’s National Health Service will be the first in the world to offer an under-the-skin injection to cancer patients which can be administered in a mere 7 minutes. This will …

A two-year-old girl child onboard a Vistara Airline flight from Bengaluru to Delhi on Sunday was miraculously saved by a team of doctors from All India Institute of Medical Sciences …

A highly mutated Covid variant called BA.2.86 has given rise to fresh concern as it has been detected in five countries including Switzerland, South Africa,  Israel, Denmark, the U.S. and …

The doctors at Chennai’s leading hospital, MGM Healthcare did a successful heart transplant to provide a new lease of life to a one-and-a-half-year-old child from Bulgaria. What makes this surgery …

Health ministers from 30 countries will attend the two-day ‘Traditional Medicine Global Summit’ being organised by the Ministry of Ayush and World Health Organisation (WHO) in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar from Thursday. …

True to his uniform and oath, a police naik from Pimpri Chinchwad, a city close to Mumbai in Maharashtra, even after his death, has saved lives of five persons. The …

A first-of-its-kind global summit on Traditional Medicine, organised by the World Health Organization (WHO) and co-hosted by the Ministry of Ayush, will be held on August 17-18 at Gandhinagar in …

The number of Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra have started edging up which is giving rise to some concern. The new Eris or EG.5.1 strain, which has triggered an alarm with …

Another Covid variant codenamed Eris has started spreading in Britain, giving rise to fears of a fresh coronavirus wave. Senior officials of UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) have raised the …

The Ministry of Home Affairs has notified the creation of a new category of Ayush (AY) visa for foreign nationals for treatment under Ayush systems/Indian systems of medicine. The introduction …

While modern medicine and its methods are indispensable, the waste generated by them is of huge quantum and its proper disposal is vital to avoid all kinds of pollution. While …

It was indeed a proud and joyous moment for the doctors and staff of Fortis Bannerghatta Road in Bengaluru, as they saw a six-year-old girl have fluids orally after a …

Researchers at the University of Verona in Italy have carried out lab tests that show Espresso coffee prevents the aggregation of the troublesome tau protein which leads to the brain-wasting …

With a view to help the first responders, that is health workers and doctors in cases of snake bites, the Indian Council of Medical Research will bring out a series …

Doctors at a hospital in Chennai carried out a miraculous surgery to remove a two-inch nail that had penetrated the head of a 23-year-old factory worker. The nail got lodged …

The WHO announced on Friday it was now classifying aspartame, an artificial sweetener commonly used in soft drinks, as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.” WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer …

In a remarkable surgery, doctors of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, transplanted the kidneys from a 14-month-old brain-dead child to a 58-year-old woman. What made the operation very complicated …