One Indian woman dies every 5 minutes during pregnancy: WHO supriya kashyap kashyap13 Jun 2016 3:49 PM ISTMumbai : Every five minutes, at least one Indian woman dies during pregnancy and child birth, the World Health Organisation said on Sunday.According...
Liraglutide effective in reducing risk of heart and kidney disease: Study supriya kashyap kashyap15 Jun 2016 3:09 PM ISTNew York : An injectable drug widely used to lower blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetes, can also reduce the risk of dying from heart disease and...
Hyderabad declares alert after polio strain found in sewage water, Govt says don't panic savita thakur thakur15 Jun 2016 6:02 PM ISTHYDERABAD: A city of nearly 7 million people in southern India has declared a “high alert” for polio after an active strain of the virus was found in...
New treatment approaches to improve peritoneal dialysis supriya kashyap kashyap26 Jun 2016 4:15 PM ISTOne of the main functions of the kidneys is to filter metabolic products out of the blood. If the kidneys are no longer able to do this, the blood has...
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...
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...
Experimental malaria vaccine offers long-lasting protection supriya kashyap kashyap20 July 2016 2:18 PM ISTLondon : Researchers have developed a malaria vaccine that has been found to offer mice protection against the disease for more than a year.By...
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...
Mobile phones causing presbyopia at an early age: Doctors supriya kashyap kashyap10 Aug 2016 2:57 PM ISTNew Delhi : The excessive use of mobile phones and other electronic gadgets is causing presbyopia at an early stage. The eye disorder typically occurs...
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...
Malaria cure breakthrough: A protein may cure the disease completely supriya kashyap kashyap19 Aug 2016 9:10 AM ISTIn a recent research scientists have developed a protein that completely cures malaria and protects the patient against re-infection.The breakthrough...
