Health

London: France, Germany and Belgium on Friday confirmed their first cases of monkeypox, while the number of people infected with this virus doubled in Britain following the detection of 11...

Bhubaneswar: Deceased donor kidney transplantation will soon be taken up at the SUM Ultimate Medicare (SUMUM) here. This was announced by the hospital on the occasion of World Kidney Day...

Bhubaneswar: Dubbing the surge in mental health cases as a ‘shadow pandemic’ amid the prevailing COVID situation, mental health experts in Odisha welcomed the announcement of the ‘National Tele Mental...

Bhubaneswar: Even as the number of people infected by COVID has been growing exponentially worldwide, the researchers have claimed to have discovered the gene that reduces the severity of the...

Rourkela: COVID-19 cases are spiralling in Odisha's Sundargarh and it is spreading like wildfire in educational institutions. The affected tally in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Sargipali, touched 89 with 53 more...

New Delhi: The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has issued revised guidelines for home isolation of mild/asymptomatic COVID-19 patients. Since a majority of cases are either asymptomatic or have...

Bhubaneswar: The widespread surge in infection of Omicron variant of COVID-19 can potentially lead to emergence of new and may be, more dangerous variants of the virus, WHO has warned....

New Delhi: India's drugmaker Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd will launch its generic version of Merck's antiviral COVID-19 pill, molnupiravir. To be sold under the brand name 'Molflu', it has been priced...

Paris: A new variant of Coronavirus -- B.1.640.2 -- is believed to have infected at least 12 persons in France. The variant, temporarily named ‘IHU’, has 46 mutations, even more than...

New Delhi: India saw a sharp spike in the number of COVID-19 patients, with 33,750 cases – highest in three months – reported ending Monday. On Sunday, the total new cases...