Younger children and older adults with pre-existing health conditions are most vulnerable to H3N2 infection.
The two-day media workshop was organized by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in partnership with UNICEF, in the backdrop of rising measles cases reported from Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, and Maharashtra. Dr...
The health pavilion was the centre of various screenings, and counselling on different public health issues, along with imparting of skills such as life-saving skills by experts, in the main venue and three off-site camps at...
Health authorities abroad have alleged in recent months that Indian medicines, ranging from cough syrups to eye drops, have caused sickness and death. Such allegations risk denting the image of India that otherwise plays a...
Rare diseases are primarily those diseases that affect a very small section of population, with nearly 80% patients in India being young children. These illnesses can often be chronic and life-threatening and have high...
Bureaucratic hassle, misinformation, and lack of awareness deter people willing to donate organs.
The Union government has asked states and Union territories (UTs) to increase the genome sequencing of positive samples to keep track of emerging coronavirus variants. This comes amid spurt of cases in China and other...
The latest confirmed case of Monkeypox in India is in a Nigerian woman in Delhi. She is admitted to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital.
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The Bharat Biotech's intranasal Covid-19 vaccine was tested on around 4,000 volunteers with no side effects or adverse reactions.
Cervical cancer vaccination and regular screening are the best ways to protect against cervical cancer, according to research.
A group of HIV positive people have been protesting for almost a month, alleging shortage and unavailability of key drugs to manage HIV infections.
Patients requiring oxygen and ventilator support in Delhi have almost doubled in last two weeks. This comes as daily infections and deaths have touched...
Protestors allege complete unavailability of certain drugs including those for children living with HIV.
Delhi has contributed 8.2% of India's weekly new cases in the week ending August 5 and has also recorded 1.86 times increase in average daily new cases from...
The latest Monkeypox case in Delhi is the eighth Monekypox patient confirmed so far in India. One death has also been reported.
Experts have said there is no need to panic as Monkeypox is not expected to become a pandemic like Covid-19 as the two diseases work differently.
The Monkeypox patient in Delhi, India's fourth confirmed case and Delhi's first, had no foreign travel history but he did travel to Himachal Pradesh.
The Dehli High Court has urged the DGCA to routinely inspect the Covid-19 situation and implement precautionary norms during air travel accordingly.
Kerala had reported India's first Monkeypox infection last week in a man who had returned from United Arab Emirates.
India's 98% adult population has received at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose while 90% people have been fully vaccinated.
India reported its first case of monkeypox on Thursday in a Kerala resident who returned from the UAE.
The number of weekly cases increased for the fifth consecutive week, after a declining trend since the last peak in March 2022, as per a WHO report this week.
The Union Ministry has set up two 50-bed hospitals for the Amarnath pilgrims, among other measures, in order to make the annual pilgrimage a grand success.
Jammu And Kashmir: The authorities have also augmented the efforts of Amarnath Shrine Board by providing fool proof security cover along both the Pahalgam and...
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya's meeting on Friday comes as 43 districts report weekly and daily positivity rate of over 10 per cent.
