Health

Bengaluru: To dissuade youngsters from getting addicted to tobacco, the Karnataka government is planning to ban hookah bars and make 21 the minimum age for buying tobacco products. According to Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao,…

Sundargarh: Six more persons tested positive for scrub typhus on Thursday in the Sundargarh district. With it the total number of scrub typhus cases in the district rose to 206. Out of the 45 samples sent for testing on Wednesday, six…

Researchers at MIT have developed an innovative implantable device to treat Type 1 diabetes. The device houses insulin-producing islet cells and includes an onboard oxygen factory that generates oxygen from water vapour in the body. When…

Bhubaneswar: Seven more scrub typhus positive cases were detected in the Sundargarh district during the past 24 hours. With it, the total number of Scrub Typhus cases in the district rose to 200 on Wednesday. Out of 37 samples sent for…

New York: A recent study published in the journal 'Preventive Medicine' has found that vaping, or the use of e-cigarettes, significantly increases the risk of asthma in adolescents who have never smoked traditional tobacco products. The…

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur have developed a novel antimicrobial peptide derived from snake venom, offering promising solutions for wound healing and infection prevention post-surgery. The peptide,…

Bhubaneswar: Ten more scrub typhus positive cases were detected in the Sundargarh district during the past 24 hours. With it the total number of Scrub Typhus cases in the district rose to 193 on Monday. Till now one person has died in…

A woman in the United States lost all four of her limbs because of a severe bacterial infection she developed after consuming contaminated fish. Laura Barajas (40) of San Jose, California, fell seriously ill after eating undercooked…

Kolkata: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has initiated a nationwide surveillance study on milk and milk products to combat adulteration. The survey will cover 766 districts and collect over 10,000 samples of milk,…

New Delhi: Now parents will not have to run around offices to get birth registration certificates issued in the name of their newborns in Uttar Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh has become the first state in the country to implement suo motu birth…