Smoking tobacco and vaping electronic cigarettes may increase the risk of developing severe Covid illness among healthy young people, a new study has revealed. ...
Amid declining Covid cases in the country, the Center on Thursday relaxed the travel norms for passengers from China and other six countries. However, the random testing of 2 per cent travelers coming to India will continue. ...
No new Covid-19 variants have emerged in China during the recent surge in infections since the country ended its zero-Covid policy, according to an analysis of cases in Beijing published in The Lancet....
Cuba has reported its first cases of avian influenza, local media said....
The Central government has informed the Supreme Court that surrogacy law says a surrogate mother may not be genetically related to the child born through the process. ...
A study by scientists of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) has claimed that the actual number of Covid-19 cases in India, including unreported and asymptomatic, could be 17 times more than the official figure of 4.5 crore....
Australian Minister for Health Mark Butler on Wednesday said the government has accepted the advice from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) to roll out a new round of booster shots....
People in Spain will no longer have to wear face masks on public transport from February 8 after the decision was taken to end their obligatory use as a protection against Covid-19 during Tuesday's cabinet meeting....
Curtailing pollution created by pharmaceuticals, agricultural and healthcare sectors is essential to reduce the emergence, transmission, and spread of superbugs -- strains of bacteria that have become resistant to every known antibiotic -- and other instances of antimicrobial resistance, known as AMR....
The Union Health Ministry on Tuesday extended the last date of completion of internship for MBBS aspirants to August 11 to complete the mandatory one-year programme....
