Health

New Delhi: Over 1.3 million lives are lost every year to various types of cancers caused by smoking tobacco across seven countries, including India, according to a study published in...

Bhubaneswar: A team of spine surgeons of Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) recently conducted what it claimed first-ever computer navigation spine surgery in Odisha. “The computer navigation assisted spinal...

Bhubaneswar: The AIIMS-Bhubaneswar has started first-of-its-kind ‘Travel Health Clinic’, which will run twice a week and provide imminent travellers with essential vaccination services, including certain country-specific vaccines. Executive director and...

Bhubaneswar: Sepsis, a life-threatening medical emergency, is responsible for around 10 million deaths in the world annually but it can be countered with a simple practice—hand washing. “Washing of hands,...

What is chronic pain? Chronic pain is a persistent and often debilitating condition characterised by prolonged discomfort or discomfort that lasts for an extended period, typically for three months or...

New Delhi: Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy has stirred up a nationwide controversy with his suggestion of 70 hours a week schedule for the youth to help India compete with...

New Delhi: Over a dozen Thalassemic children undergoing blood transfusion, have tested positive for infections like Hepatitis B, C and even HIV, during their routine screening at Lala Lajpat Rai...

New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has completed clinical trials of the world's first injectable contraceptive for males that provides long-lasting sterility with complete reversibility, new agency...

New Delhi: Disease X is leading to anxiety with the general public believing that it is a new ailment.  It is just an imaginary or hypothetical illness,” top scientists and...

New Delhi: Most of us avoid climbing the stairs where lifts are available. But did you know that climbing the stairs, apart from being a good exercise, also lowers the...