Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung on Friday invoked the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) against the striking nurses of government hospitals in the city, ...
Thirty-one new cases of Zika have been confirmed in Singapore, raising to 151 the number of persons infected by the mosquito-borne virus in the Southeast Asian city-state, the government said on Friday. ...
Antibiotic treatment within the first year of life is associated with an increase in food allergy diagnosis, suggests new research....
At least 60 million Indians -- a number more than the population of South Africa -- suffer from mental disorders, even as the country lags the world in medical professionals and ...
Extremely low birth weight (ELBW) babies are four times more likely to develop higher body fat than other normal birth weight (NBW) babies, says a study conducted by Indian-origin researcher....
Patients who have surgery during the night are twice as likely to die compared to patients who are operated on during the day, a study has found....
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a way to boost the efficiency of a gene-editing tool, known as clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats associated protein 9 (CRISPR-Cas9), so that it cuts and disables genes up to fivefold in most types of human cells....
Heart failure is a common condition worldwide and increases with age. Various disorders can cause heart failure, such as coronary heart disease, hypertension, obesity and diabetes. As these are more prevalent with age,. the consequence is an increased population of elderly who may develop heart failure," said Ragnar Danielsan, Cardiologist at Landspit...
It may sound exaggerated but the unprecedented growth in Type-2 diabetes over the past 15 years and the deadly rise of cancer have a few common -- some even modifiable -- risk factors linked to how we lead our daily lives, health experts say....
India, facing the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) in the world, is also the world's largest consumer of antibiotics, says a study, conducted to determine whether pharmacies have contributed to inappropriate use of antibiotics by dispensing them without prescriptions....
