While advances in cancer therapies have greatly improved survival rates for breast cancer, new research on Tuesday showed that common treatments, including chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, may accelerate the biological ageing process in survivors. ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the Health Labour Market Analysis (HLMA) support tool to assist Africa in assessing health workforce education capacity, supply, and demand. ...
In a remarkable achievement, GMC Rajouri successfully performed a complex high-risk surgery on an elderly female patient from Poonch, who faced multiple severe health challenges, including heart failure, a damaged heart valve, life-threatening heart block, and gallbladder stones. ...
The fast-unto-death protest of seven junior doctors at Esplanade in Kolkata, over the rape and murder of their colleague in the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College Hospital entered the fourth day on Tuesday. ...
Six people, including five children, were taken ill due to food poisoning in Bihar's Banka district, an official said on Tuesday. ...
A new study on Tuesday showed that damage to the brainstem -- the brain’s ‘control centre’ -- is behind the long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of severe Covid-19 infection. ...
About 40 million deaths were avoidable in 2019 and the economic value of reducing these avoidable deaths is equivalent to 23 per cent of annual global income, two papers published in journal Nature Medicine have revealed. ...
Older adults suffering from abnormal bleeding, fatigue, and weakness, must be assessed for scurvy -- a disease caused by vitamin C deficiency, suggests a study on Monday. ...
The fast-unto-death protest of six junior doctors at Esplanade in Kolkata, over the rape and murder of their colleague in the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College Hospital entered the third day on Monday. ...
Rwanda began administering Marburg vaccine trials, prioritising frontline workers as part of efforts to prevent the spread of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in the country. ...
