Health

New Delhi: By 20250, nearly one billion people globally will have osteoarthritis, according to a study which found that 15 per cent of individuals aged 30 and older currently experience...

New Delhi: The top US disease control agency is tracking a new, highly mutated lineage of the virus that causes COVID-19. The lineage is named BA.2.86, and has been detected...

New Delhi: Divorced men are at the highest risk among people with diabetes of having some or all of their feet and legs amputated because of the disease, research has...

New Delhi: Air pollution is helping to drive a rise in antibiotic resistance that poses a significant threat to human health worldwide, according to a global study. The analysis, using data...

New Delhi: A new case study has revealed that a woman in Canada who was repeatedly hospitalised for stomach pain and vomiting had developed lead poisoning from taking Ayurvedic pills...

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry is working on formulating a national menstrual hygiene policy that seeks to ensure access to safe and hygienic menstrual products, improve sanitation facilities, address...

Bhubaneswar: A team of doctors at KIMS Bhubaneswar performed two rare surgeries consecutively within a span of two weeks through a minimal invasive process with the help of an endoscope...

New Delhi: The date July 28 was chosen as World Hepatitis Day because it is the birthday of Nobel-prize-winning scientist Dr Baruch Blumberg, who discovered the hepatitis B virus (HBV)...

New Delhi: Watery discharge, irritation, itching, swelling of the lids, redness, and pain in the eyes – if you have these complaints, you have conjunctivitis. Doctors in north India, where...

New Delhi: The global burden of diabetes is expected to cross 1 billion by 2050, according to a new study by Lancet. "Our study included more than 27,000 data sources...