Health

Bhubaneswar: A severe heatwave has led to at least 124 hospitalisations across 16 districts in Odisha, with one reported death as of yesterday. Public Health Director Niranjan Mishra confirmed the grim statistics, highlighting Sundargarh…

New Delhi: Jailed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was administered insulin at Tihar jail on Monday night when his blood sugar level increased to an alarming level of 320. The normal sugar level should be between 70 and 100. The AAP…

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has demanded an urgent supply of TB drugs from the Centre for implementation of the National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP). Odisha Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Health & Family Welfare…

Hong Kong's food safety authority has banned the sale of four spice products from popular Indian brands MDH and Everest after discovering the presence of a cancer-causing chemical. The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) revealed on April 5…

Chandigarh: An one-and-a-half-year-old girl was hospitalized on Wednesday after she vomited blood after eating expired chocolate purchased from a grocery store in Patiala in Punjab. The child named Rabia from Ludhiana was in Patiala…

A 72-year-old Dutch man died after suffering the longest recorded COVID-19 infection of 613 days. According to the researchers of the Amsterdam University Medical Center, he died in December 2023. The unnamed victim got infected with…

Mumbai: Popular television actress Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya, known for her role in 'Yeh Hai Mohabbatein,' recently encountered an unfortunate accident resulting in a fracture of her forearm bones. Divyanka's husband, Vivek Dahiya, took to…

Bhubaneswar: The first-ever sunstroke death this year has been reported from Odisha. According to the information provided by the Public Health Director Dr Niranjan Mishra, one person died of heatstroke in the Balasore district.…

Thiruvananthapuram: A bird flu outbreak has been reported in two places in Kerala's Alappuzhathis district. Officials confirmed on Thursday that bird flu (H5N1) infection was found in ducks reared in an area of ward 1 of Edathva Grama…

World’s first vaccine against all strains of meningitis has been launched in Nigeria. It is the world's first vaccine to provide protection against all five strains of the meningococcal bacteria that cause meningitis. By protecting…