WHO meeting resolves to boost efforts against dreaded diseases supriya kashyap kashyap2 July 2016 3:34 PM ISTNew Delhi : Participants at a meeting on 'Advancing Global Health Security' in Indonesia, organised under the aegis of WHO, said they will strengthen...
Coronary artery disease up by 300 per cent in India in the past 3 decades supriya kashyap kashyap4 July 2016 4:45 PM ISTBengaluru : Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) spiked by 300 per cent among Indians in the past three decades, with two to six per cent of the affected...
WHO urges use of polio detection systems to screen for Zika-linked disorder supriya kashyap kashyap7 July 2016 3:11 PM ISTGeneva : A neurological condition linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus could be targeted globally with existing national programmes for detecting...
No Zika risk during Olympics: Michel Temer supriya kashyap kashyap8 July 2016 9:52 AM ISTBrasilia : Brazil's interim President Michel Temer has said that there is no risk of contracting the Zika virus during the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio...
AIIMS to conduct survey to ascertain the number of drug addicts supriya kashyap kashyap10 July 2016 4:25 PM ISTNew Delhi : After a hiatus of 15 years, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, in collaboration with the National Drug Dependence Treatment...
Excess smoking, narcotics use cause infertility: Doctors supriya kashyap kashyap13 July 2016 2:19 PM ISTNew Delhi : Excess smoking and use of other narcotic substances, including marijuana, can cause infertility in both males and females, doctors have...
WHO certifies India as maternal and neonatal tetanus free supriya kashyap kashyap15 July 2016 3:27 PM ISTThe World Health Organization (WHO) presented India the certificates declaring elimination of yaws, maternal and neonatal tetanus, an official...
Cardiologist suggests fat tax to combat obesity supriya kashyap kashyap21 July 2016 3:07 PM ISTNew Delhi : A fat tax on high calorie foods to encourage healthier lifestyle choices needs to be enforced universally on all foods containing trans...
Over six lakh people die due to cancer in India: Government supriya kashyap kashyap27 July 2016 9:45 AM ISTWith over six lakh people succumbing to cancer and more than ten lakh new cases are reported in the country, the government said air pollution and...
Seasonal allergies may cause changes in the brain supriya kashyap kashyap11 Aug 2016 12:09 PM ISTSeasonal allergies like hay fever reduce the presence of brain immune cells as well as increase the growth of nervous tissue, which may lead to...
AIIMS researchers find how Zika virus may cause microcephaly supriya kashyap kashyap17 Aug 2016 12:27 PM ISTNew Delhi : A team of Indian researchers, steered by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here, has proposed a plausible mechanism that...
Cancer kills more Europeans than heart disease does: Study supriya kashyap kashyap16 Aug 2016 3:17 PM ISTLondon: With 17.3 million deaths globally, cancer has now overtaken heart diseases as the main cause of death in 12 European countries, revealed a...
