The initiative, aims at involving one crore people in yoga activities ahead of International Yoga Day on June 21, will continue until June 20 with awareness and promotional programmes across all 28 districts
Sequencing 10,000 Indian human genomes under the centre-backed project would mean that therapies could be customized for identified genetic variants among the Indian population
Kerala sees a jump in confirmed dengue cases from 295 in February to 670 by May 25.
The head of the World Health Organization said on Friday that the Ebola outbreak in Congo is “spreading rapidly” and now poses a “very high” risk at the national level. WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the UN health agency was revising upwards to “very high” its assessment of the risk within Congo, which had previously been deemed as high. The risk remains high for regional spread and low at global levels, he told reporters. The WHO chief noted that 82 cases have been...
Gender-based violence and domestic violence increase significantly with climate change, she said
MV Hondius was carrying 25 crew members and two medical personnel as it reached the Dutch port of Rotterdam.
A 19-year-old from Feroke and a nine-year-old from Kottur panchayat are undergoing treatment in Kozhikode MCH
Mr. Ramakrishna Rao directs officials to speed up redressal of matters other than finance related ones
France’s health minister said on Thursday that 26 people in France identified as close contacts of hantavirus cases linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship had tested negative for the illness. Dutch authorities said that all people who arrived in the Netherlands on evacuation flights from the ship this week have also tested negative. Twenty-six people are in hospital isolation in France, including 22 identified as close contacts of a Dutch woman on the MV Hondius that was at the centre of an...
A Qatar-based professor has pioneered a non-invasive eye scan to detect neurodegenerative diseases in minutes.
Addressing the International Nurses Day celebrations at Government Medical College, Satya Kumar Yadav says nurses provide emotional support and comfort to patients through compassionate service and care
The infected man is one of more than 120 passengers and crew members evacuated from MV Hondius, the ministry says.
One French passenger and one from the US test positive after being evacuated from the vessel in the Canary Islands.
Another one of 17 Americans flown home has mild symptoms, the US health department says.
Hantavirus is usually spread by rodents but can in rare cases be transmitted person to person.