Newborn with Zika virus found infected 2 months after birth supriya kashyap kashyap26 Aug 2016 12:16 PM ISTNew York : In the first reported case of prolonged Zika infection in newborns, physicians have described the diagnosis of a Brazilian baby born with...
How incurable Japanese Encephalitis threatens emerging India supriya kashyap kashyap29 Aug 2016 2:55 PM ISTPanic gripped Manipur in July, 2016 when a four-year-old girl after suffering high fever, convulsions, and slipping in and out of consciousness over a...
Fewer Indians using contraception, despite awareness supriya kashyap kashyap30 Aug 2016 12:37 PM ISTIndia has a growing population of 1.2 billion, but fewer Indians are using contraceptives than they were a decade ago, according to an analysis of...
India may have up to three times more TB patients than assumed: Lancet supriya kashyap kashyap6 Sept 2016 1:09 PM ISTNew Delhi : Ground zero of the global battle against one of humankind's deadliest diseases, India could have between two and three times more...
Contraceptive pills driving fall in ovarian cancer deaths supriya kashyap kashyap7 Sept 2016 12:38 PM ISTLondon : Widespread use of oral contraceptives has driven the fall in deaths from ovarian cancer worldwide, a major study has found.Deaths from...
Progesterone, may help in treating influenza flu in women supriya kashyap kashyap20 Sept 2016 2:56 PM ISTA recent study has revealed that progesterone, a component found in most of the hormone-based birth control is useful in stopping the worst affects of...
World Heart Day : WHO calls for controlled tobacco use to avoid heart ailments supriya kashyap kashyap29 Sept 2016 1:01 PM ISTNew Delhi : To decrease the burden of heart-related ailments, which claims over 8 million lives in Southeast Asia, the WHO asked India and other...
Universal flu vaccine designed by scientists supriya kashyap kashyap1 Oct 2016 9:58 AM ISTAn international team of scientists have designed a new generation of universal flu vaccines to protect against future global pandemics that could...
Take decisive action against Zika: WHO to Southeast Asian nations supriya kashyap kashyap1 Oct 2016 2:06 PM ISTThe World Health Organisation (WHO) urged countries across the Southeast Asia region to continue taking decisive action against Zika virus as two new...
Boys born through IVF have low sperm counts: Study supriya kashyap kashyap9 Oct 2016 9:35 AM ISTBaby boys conceived through a common type of IVF treatment have lower sperm quantity and quality than men who were spontaneously conceived, suggests...
268 million kids to be overweight globally by 2025: Study supriya kashyap kashyap11 Oct 2016 9:50 AM ISTLondon : In an indication that no policy interventions have proven very effective at changing current obesity trends, researchers have estimated that...
Women with PCOS more likely to be affected by diabetes: AIIMS supriya kashyap kashyap17 Nov 2016 9:00 AM ISTNew Delhi : An AIIMS study has claimed that women suffering from polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a condition of hormonal imbalance, are more...
