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The Calcutta Medical Research Institute (CMRI), a unit of CK Birla Hospitals, on Friday hosted a special Walkathon in Kolkata on Thursday to commemorate Patients’ Experience Week 2025.
Ayurveda, the traditional system of medicine originating in India, presents a holistic approach to skin health that integrates physical, mental, and environmental factors.
BM Birla Heart Hospital, Kolkata, has become the first centre in Eastern India to successfully implant a dual-chamber leadless pacemaker World’s First Dual Chamber (the most advanced and latest technology in cardiac science), marking a major leap forward in the management of heart rhythm disorders.
Scientists Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a new form of molecular architecture.
Heavy rainfall triggered landslides across West Bengal’s Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts, disrupting normal life and leaving at least 17 people dead, media reports said on Sunday.
Continuous overnight rain has wreaked havoc across North Bengal, leaving at least 14 people dead in landslides in Darjeeling’s Mirik and Sukhia Pokhari areas.
Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government on Saturday imposed an immediate ban on the sale and distribution of Coldrif cough syrup after laboratory tests confirmed the presence of a highly toxic chemical, Diethylene Glycol (DEG), in samples from the same batch linked to the deaths of nine children in Chhindwara district.
MedSage, a licensed wholesale and retail chemist and druggist company based in Kolkata, has inaugurated its new branch opposite Gate No. 2 of Rampurhat Medical College.
India could experience the greatest long-term impact from mosquito-borne chikungunya, suggests data from the most comprehensive mapping of its global risk to date.
A generic cough syrup manufactured by a pharmaceutical company for the Rajasthan government has led to the deaths of two children and at least 10 others falling ill in the state over the past two weeks, media reports said.
The Indian Space Research Organisation, the pioneer of Indian science research, has issued an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) inviting scientists within India to utilise the archival data available from past Venus missions.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said there is no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a link between acetaminophen (paracetamol) use during pregnancy and autism, countering recent political statements in the United States.
The United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) has issued a letter to doctors cautioning against routine use of acetaminophen (Tylenol) and other paracetamol products in pregnant women, citing studies that suggest possible links to autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Acharya Balkrishna, Managing Director of Patanjali Ayurved, has once again been recognised among the top 2% of scientists worldwide, according to a prestigious list published by Stanford University in collaboration with leading academic publisher Elsevier.
Kolkata/IBNS: At least seven people have died of electrocution due to waterlogging caused by the overnight torrential rain that battered Kolkata amid the festive fervour in the city, media reports said.
At least six people died due to rain-related incidents in Kolkata, where heavy downpour and thunderstorms occurred on Tuesday, leaving the city paralysed.
Heavy rains and thunderstorms lashed Kolkata on Tuesday, leaving a large area in the city waterlogged and paralysing normal life at a time when people are gearing up to celebrate the week-long Durga Puja festival.
A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the ”la Caixa” Foundation, has estimated that 62,775 heat-related deaths occurred in Europe between June 1 and September 30, 2024.
Pune-based scientist Dr Himanshu Kulkarni became the first from the Indian subcontinent to be awarded the biennial ‘International Water Prize’ instituted since 2009, sponsored by the WaTER Center at the University of Oklahoma, USA.
A new study from researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center shows that the glucose-fructose mix found in sugary drinks directly fuels metastasis in preclinical models of advanced colorectal cancer.
Kerala health authorities are on high alert after a surge in cases of Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM), a rare but deadly brain infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as the “brain-eating amoeba", that claimed 19 lives this year, media reports said on Wednesday.
Indian astronomers have mapped in detail the invisible layers of cosmic dust that veil our Milky Way and redden the light of the stars.
Dehradun/IBNS: Shops getting washed away, roads inundated and debris piled up on streets are some of the visuals that have emerged from Dehradun fighting with a cloudburst caused by very heavy rainfall on Tuesday, media reports said.
The Earth’s protective ozone layer is healing and the ozone hole in 2024 was smaller than in recent years, according to a new World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report which contains welcome scientific news for people’s and planetary health.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its global cholera statistics for 2024, showing an increase in both the number of people who fell sick and died from the disease.
India is witnessing a rapid rise in overweight and obesity across all age groups, from its youngest children to adolescents and adults, experts cautioned at a UNICEF-organized national media roundtable on healthy diets held here today.
Kolkata/IBNS: Vijaya Diagnostic Centre, India’s largest B2C-focused integrated diagnostic chain, on Thursday announced the grand opening of its state-of-the-art diagnostic centre in Kasba, Kolkata.
More than 720,000 people commit suicide every year and many more attempt it. Now the head of the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for “shifting the narrative” on the issue “to challenge harmful myths, reduce stigma and foster compassionate conversations.”
For the first time in history, obesity has surpassed those underweight as the most common form of malnutrition among school-age children and adolescents worldwide, UNICEF revealed in a new report on Tuesday.
Thousands of skywatchers in several nations across the world, including in India, witnessed the rare celestial event, ‘Blood Moon’ or the total lunar eclipse, on Sunday.
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