Health news and updates
New York: The head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that the agency was working to help contain Marburg virus disease outbreaks in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania, advocating for more global action to implement a UN-led “One Health” approach.
New Delhi/UNI: India has registered 3,095 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total active case in the country to 15,208, as per the Health Ministry on Friday.
Beijing: China has reported its third human case of the H3N8 strain of bird flu, media reports said.
Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has released the images of earth captured by EOS-06 Satellite launched by its reliable launch vehicle PSLV on November 26, 2022.
New Delhi/UNI: India has registered 3,016 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total active case in the country at 13,509, as per the Health Ministry on Thursday.
New York: The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is calling for emergency funding to broaden efforts to reach millions living across 11 eastern and southern African countries which have been hit hard by fast-spreading cholera outbreaks.
New Delhi: The government has cancelled the licences of 18 pharma companies for producing spurious and adulterated drugs, following joint inspections by central and state regulators at 76 drug manufacturers, a media report said.
Srinagar: Kashmir wildlife department has pressed state-of-the-art drones into service to conduct the Hangul census in Kashmir.
New York: UN agency chiefs issued a call on Monday for global action to balance and optimize the health of people, animals and the environment, as part of a new “One Health” approach.
Bijaipur/IBNS: One of the eight cheetahs relocated to India from Namibia died on Monday in Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park after developing a kidney infection in January.
Thimpu: Gungring of Bhutan is on the right track after it ventured into organic farming five years ago.
New Delhi/UNI: India has registered 1,805 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total active case in the country at 10,300, as per the Health Ministry on Monday.
Hyderabad: Blood clots in blood veins can be avoided with just a mile's walk daily, an expert from KIMS hospital said here on Sunday.
London: A study has revealed that sniffing other people's body odour might be useful in therapy for social anxiety.
A world-first look at the effect of the Mediterranean diet in women confirms it lowers risk of heart disease and death and should be recommended for prevention.
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh): The Forest department has lodged a case against a man from Uttar Pradesh who took care of a Sarus crane for a year after rescuing it, said media reports
New research from Boston Medical Center found that substance use disorders do not increase the likelihood of dying from COVID-19. Published in Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, the study showed that the increased risk for severe COVID-19 in people with SUD that has been seen may be the result of co-occurring medical conditions.
Being vaccinated against Covid halves people’s risk of developing long Covid, according to new research from the University of East Anglia.
Continued warming of the climate would see a rise in the number and spread of potentially fatal infections caused by bacteria found along parts of the coast of the United States.
New Delhi: Four people lost their lives due to Covid-19 infection during the past 24 hours in the country while active cases increased by 832 in the same period.
Sriharikota(AP)/IBNS/UNI: In a dedicated second commercial launch, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday successfully accomplished the LVM-M3 mission.
A powerful geomagnetic storm, caused by a significant gap in the sun's corona, severely impacted the Earth's magnetic field, causing a stunning display of the Northern Lights in the United States.
Kolkata: The BIMSTEC conference in Kolkata on Saturday deliberated on the issue of climate change in the region and unanimously called for cooperation and understanding of the problems and creating joint-action tempered by scientific decisions to stem the rot of climate change.
Kolkata: BIMSTEC Secretary General Tenzin Lekphell on Saturday said health has emerged as a crucial agenda of discussion among the member states ever since the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2020.
Mississippi (US): Several severe tornadoes ripped through the Deep South on Friday night, causing extensive destruction in southern U.S. state, Mississippi, resulting in the loss of at least 23 lives, demolishing numerous buildings, and causing immense damage to a rural town, news agency AP reported.
Women with mental illness, neuropsychiatric disability, or substance abuse are less likely to go for gynaecological smear tests for cervical cancer and run more than twice the risk of developing the disease.
Blind people are better at sensing their own heartbeats than sighted, shows a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Jagiellonian University in Poland.
New York: Elevated blood pressure and hypertension can cause early cardiac damage during adolescence which is worsened by young adulthood, a paper published in the Journal of Pediatrics concludes.
New York: The increased prevalence of childhood obesity has resulted in an increased incidence of sustained low-grade inflammation since childhood.
New Delhi: Six patients have died due to Coronavirus infection in the country in the last 24 hours while the number of active cases increased by 674 during this period, according to data released by the Ministry of Health on Saturday.
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