Health

A newly approved skin test for tuberculosis diagnosis will soon be introduced in the country, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Thursday, underlining that the cost-effective kit made in…

Worsening outdoor air pollution and toxic lead poisoning have kept global deaths from environmental contamination at an estimated 9 million per year since 2015, countering modest progress made in tackling pollution elsewhere,…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said Tuesday it was coordinating with UK and other European health officials after British authorities detected at least seven cases of monkeypox this month. Health…

USA researchers have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm that can predict the gender of babies based on their mood. artificial intelligence tool is capable of predicting the age and sex…

The number of people who have died from Covid-19 in Europe, the long-time epicentre of the pandemic, has passed two million, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Thursday. “A devastating…

China’s flagship zero-Covid strategy to defeat the pandemic is unsustainable, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday, adding that it had told Beijing so and called for a policy shift.…

SHAFAQNA FUTURE- In recently presented dissertations, Doctoral students from Malmö University have investigated whether it is possible to detect, extract and collect biomarkers for skin cancer—without taking traditional tissue samples.…

The researchers find that blood sugar and cholesterol at age 35 might help doctors predict how likely we are to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s later in life. New research published…

Every 10 centimetres (four inches) on a man’s waist increases his risk of dying from prostate cancer by 7%, according to a new study — the largest ever conducted on…

A new World Health Organisation (WHO) report, which is being considered the most comprehensive look at the true global toll of the pandemic so far, reveals that the actual number…

Almost three times as many people have died as a result of Covid-19 as official data show, according to a new World Health Organisation (WHO) report, the most comprehensive look…

Covid-19 cases and deaths continue to decline worldwide, but South African scientists that identified the omicron strain have reported two more sub-variants, the World Health Organization chief said Wednesday. Tedros…

The WHO said Tuesday that “epidemic” overweight and obesity rates are linked to over 1.2 million deaths annually across Europe, calling for swift policy changes to reverse the dangerous trend.…

US biotech firm Moderna said it had submitted a request for an emergency use authorisation in the United States for its COVID vaccine for children aged six months to under…

Two new sublineages of the Omicron coronavirus variant can dodge antibodies from earlier infection well enough to trigger a new wave, but are far less able to thrive in the…

A new way of using artificial intelligence to predict cancer from patient data without putting personal information at risk has been developed by a team including University of Leeds medical…

Measles cases jumped by 79% in the first two months of this year compared to 2021, after COVID-19 and lockdowns disrupted child vaccination campaigns around the world, according to data…

The COVID-19 pandemic has forever changed the world’s relationship with vaccines, spurring unprecedented production and innovation even while poorer nations were left behind. At the start of World Immunisation Week,…

In this modern era, it is undeniable that technological developments affect all lines of life in various fields. Like education, health, agriculture, business, economics, arts, food etc. The development of…

Shanghai reported 39 COVID deaths Sunday, its highest daily toll despite weeks of lockdowns, while China’s capital Beijing warned of a “grim” situation with rising infections. The world’s second-largest economy…

British researchers believe they have documented the longest-known COVID-19 infection, in a patient who tested positive for a total of 505 days before their death. The previous record for persistent…

New Delhi authorities on Wednesday made the wearing of masks compulsory again after COVID-19 infections rose in the Indian capital in recent days. “In view of the rise in COVID…

India has sharply criticised a forthcoming World Health Organisation study which reportedly claims coronavirus killed four million people nationally, the latest analysis suggesting a significant undercount of the pandemic’s death…

Omicron is more likely than other coronavirus variants to cause upper airway infection (UAI) among children, putting them at risk of heart attack and other severe complications, according to a…

The WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine, set to come up in Gujarat, aims at improving the quality and safety of traditional medicinal practices by developing a cohesive approach to…

Over 17.93 crore hypertension screenings have been done as on March 31 at 1,17,440 Ayushman Bharat-Health and Wellness Centres (AB-HWCs) operationalised across the country, according to government data. Also, around…

Global Covid-19 cases surpassed 500 million on Thursday, according to a Reuters tally, as the highly contagious BA2 sub-variant of Omicron surges in many countries in Europe and Asia. The…

The WHO chief said on Wednesday that the world was treating humanitarian crises affecting black and white lives unequally, with only a “fraction” of the attention on Ukraine given elsewhere.…

A newly developed COVID-19 vaccine induces a robust immune response in immunocompromised patients, including those with cancers like leukaemia and lymphoma, according to early results from a small trial. The…

Britain will expand access to Pfizer’s oral antiviral Covid-19 treatment to thousands more people by adding it to a trial to assess how best to use the drug in its…