
Days after its very first Banni IVF calf, India now has a total of six of them -- all from the same farm in Gujarat -- a step forward in the artificial insemination programme for the cows and buffaloes in the country....

France has become the fifth European nation to recommend people aged under 30 against using the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine due to concerns over the risk of myocarditis -- a rare heart inflammation....

Indonesia will start administering Covid-19 booster shots after 50 per cent of the country's population are fully vaccinated against the virus, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said. ...

Germany has recorded the highest seven-day Covid-19 incidence rate since the begining of the pandemic early last year, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases said....

Indians eat more fibre-rich plant based diet than people in the Western countries, reducing their risk of gut-related problems such as inflammatory bowel diseases like crohn's disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), colitis, and colon cancer, according to a research on Tuesday....

Italy's Covid-19 situation is stable under the current rules despite the ongoing fourth wave of the pandemic, a health official said....

In a report titled 'Clinicopathological Profile of Cancers in India: A Report of the Hospital Based Cancer Registries, 2021, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said that the northeastern states experience higher burden of cancer cases, both among men and women....

Russia registered 39,165 Covid-19 infections over the past 24 hours, taking the national tally to 8,795,095, the official Monitoring and Response Center has said....

Another 30,305 people in Britain have tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 9,301,909, according to official figures released....

All three district health boards (DHS) in New Zealand's largest city of Auckland have crossed the 90 per cent threshold for the first doses of Covid-19 vaccine on Monday, a key milestone on the path to the city's opening up....