Health

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has issued a note of caution against misuse of antibiotics amid rising flu cases in the country. The mounting infections are due to the H3N2 …

New research carried out by the prestigious Cleveland Clinic shows that erythritol, a popular artificial sweetener, is associated with an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. The findings were …

Garcinia pedunculata, a medicinal plant commonly called ‘Borthekera’ in the Assamese language, traditionally forbidden for raw consumption, has been found to protect from heart diseases. Administration of the dried pulp …

The Army Institute of Cardio Thoracic Sciences (AICTS) in Pune successfully carried out a heart transplant of a 40-year-old brain-dead army veteran to the wife of a serving soldier who …

While the banana fruit is much loved for its taste and nutrition, its peel is often scorned for making a mess on the roads or used in films to create …

All-India Institute of Medical Science-Bhubaneswar was in news for conducting successful quadruple joint replacement surgery. The patient was a 37-year-old woman hailing from Kendrapara district’s Aul block in Odisha. Suffering …

As many as 137 students of a private nursing and paramedical college in Mangaluru’s Shakthinagar area were down with food poisoning after a meal at their hostel mess on Monday and …

Working towards inclusion of transgender community in the mainstream, the Maharashtra Government has started the first dedicated and separate ward for them in the State. Established in Government-affiliated Gokuldas Tejpal …

World Cancer Day, which is observed to spread awareness, inspire change and reduce the global impact of cancer, is celebrated on February 4, every year. We must take good care …

The highly-contagious norovirus infection, that causes acute gastroenteritis, has been confirmed in two school students at Kakkanad near Kochi in Kerala. The school has been shut down temporarily. The samples …

Cold wave conditions in Delhi and the northern states are expected to recede from Thursday as two Western Disturbances in quick succession are likely to affect northwest India on January …

A protein found in the backbone of zebrafish that plays a positive role in disc maintenance and promotes regeneration in aged discs between vertebrae can have potential therapeutic implications to …

A new and more virulent sub-variant of Omicron, XBB.1.5, that has triggered a surge in Covid cases in the US has now been detected in India as well. Insacog data …

Four foreign nationals have tested positive for Covid in RT-PCR tests carried out at Bihar’s Gaya Airport and have been kept in isolation at a hotel. The foreign nationals from …

Nearly 250 million people may now be infected with Covid-19 following the lifting of control measures in China, a Radio Free Asia (RFA) report has revealed citing a leaked government …

Amid a sharp increase in demand for the precautionary vaccine dose in the country since last week following fears over the Covid wave in China spreading to other countries, the …

The huge wave of Covid infections in China has led to widespread shortages of the most common medicines used to treat flu-like symptoms and pharmacies have been told to ration …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired a high-level virtual meeting to take stock of the COVID-19 situation in the country as the coronavirus wave sweeping across China has raised …

The BF.7. variant of coronavirus that is driving the current Covid wave in China and has put India on alert is sub-variant of the Omicron strain. The BF.7 variant has …

Commonly used medicines like paracetamol, amoxycillin rabeprazole and metformin are among the list of 127 medicines that will now become cheaper after the year-end review of the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) …

At least four cases of the BF.7 sub-variant of Omicron, that has triggered the current Covid wave in China, have been detected in India, according to official sources. As per …