The newly licensed dengue vaccine could actually make people sick and increase the incidence of infections if used in low transmission areas, a team of international researchers has warned. An estimated 400 million people globally
Are you also suffering from sleep disorder like obstructive sleep apnea? If yes, then it's essential you realise that sleep apnea is not only affecting your moods, thoughts and body functions but may also give
Patients who survived a fatal lung disease find their lifestyle factors having greater impact on their subsequent quality of life than how sick they were in the hospital, findings of a new study have claimed.
Smokers, especially women, are at an increased risk of developing a disease known as ‘subarachnoid haemorrhage’, which essentially means bleeding inside the lining of the brain, a study has warned. Subarachnoid haemorrhage is a
New York: Researchers have now discovered a new way by using urine and cerebral-spinal fluid samples to detect the presence of Parkinson’s disease. According to the researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB),
At least 17 per cent of the pregnant women in India are suffering from obesity and diabetes and carry a high risk of transferring the diseases to their babies, leading gynaecologist said on Friday.
New Delhi: Nearly 42 million people in India suffer from thyroid disorders, said a study conducted by SRL Diagnostics, a leading diagnostic chain in India, based on a three-year long survey done across India. According
Washington: Alzheimer's disease is a degenerative brain disease which causes the damage of central nervous system leading to a loss of mental ability. Till now, this disease was considered incurable. Now researchers have identified an
New York:Lowering the cost of healthy foods,while increasing the prices on sugary drinks,junk food, could prevent thousands of deaths from heart disease and stroke each year,suggests a new studyThe study revealed that a 10 percent
Imphal: At least 200 people, among them women and children, from a village in Manipur have been hospitalised with a mysterious disease, officials said on Monday.The villagers from Lilong Chingjao in Thoubal district have been
Seoul: Prolonged sitting such as watching TV and using the computer and other devices as well as reduced physical activity may increase risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) that may potentially lead to liver
Kolkata: A man died of acute Encephalitis at the North Bengal Medical College (NBMC) Hospital here, taking the total number of deaths in the state since January to 21, a senior official of the Health
New Delhi: Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) claims over three lakh lives every year, including those of 7,000 children, health experts said here on Saturday.They stated that SCA takes one life every two minutes, claiming more lives
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday said copying and cheating during examinations are a disease and urged upon students to study hard rather than indulging in malpractices.“Everybody does not copy or cheat in
Buenos Aires: Argentina has issued a virus alert on the emergence of chikungunya fever.The health ministry for Buenos Aires province, the country's most populous area, issued the alert Tuesday, reported Xinhua.The disease, which is transmitted
Beijing, July 11: A total of 1,336 people died of infectious diseases in the Chinese mainland in June alone while AIDS proved as the most deadly among them, the country's National Health and Family Planning
New Delhi, Jun 27: The government today said no outbreak of any water, food or air-borne disease has been reported from the flood-affected areas of Uttarakhand.A three-member high-level committee from the Ministry of Health and
Los Angeles,June 25: Scientists have engineered a cutting-edge sensor chip that can detect diseases from a drop of blood, says a new study.A new study describes how Reginald Farrow and Alokik Kanwal, researchers at the
London, Sep 13: Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen probably suffered from an inheritable form of temporal lobe epilepsy that gave him abnormally large breasts, according to the Daily Mail.Tutankhamen was revered as a living god, and is
Vietnam, Jul 12: Tran Minh Giang has spent more than a third of his young life in a Vietnamese hospital, and it could be many months more before he can go home. All for a
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