
With homegrown Covid-19 vaccines, Cuba expects to immunize over 50 per cent of its population by August, a senior official has said....

The Covid-19 lockdown in the Netherlands will be extended to April 20 due to the increasing numbers of Covid-19 infections and hospital admissions, Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said....

The US Senate has confirmed Vivek Murthy as the surgeon general, the second time he will be holding the position....

All adults in the US state of Texas will be eligible to receive a Covid-19 vaccine beginning March 29, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) said...

Russian President Vladimir Putin received one of the country's three domestic vaccines against the coronavirus, the Kremlin announced....

The total number of coronavirus cases of the UK, South Africa and Brazil variants in India stand at 795 till date, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. ...

Researchers in Microbiology and Cell Biology of countrys premier research institute, Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc) have found a new, faster and more efficient way to detect whether a person has active Tuberculosis (TB) by using their immune response to certain proteins unique to the TB bacilli....

Online food delivery player Swiggy on Tuesday announced the launch of Health Hub here where customers can order healthy food....

Caffeine -- about 3 milligram per kilogram (mg/kg), the equivalent of a strong coffee -- ingested half an hour before aerobic exercise significantly increases the rate of fat-burning, suggests a new study....

A team of researchers have showed that consuming a 25 gram serving of processed meat a day can be associated with a 44 per cent increased risk of developing dementia, while unprocessed meat was linked to lesser chances of it....