Medical

More than eight months after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic, the disease is far from being under control with several countries experiencing a stronger...

For the first time, the World Health Organization (WHO) has approved a polio vaccine for emergency use. The WHO said that the vaccine, produced by Indonesia’s Bio Farma PT, is...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has launched advanced robotic therapy to help people, who have lost their limbs in a mishap or disease, to regain mobility. The therapy is being provided...

Bhubaneswar: The severed finger of a nine-year-old boy was successfully restored recently by a team of surgeons at Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital here. Ritish Kumar Behera’s index...

Stockholm: Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice together with Briton Michael Houghton jointly won the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus. The...

Bhubaneswar: An extremely rare vascular tumour, which was the size of a golf ball, was removed from a middle-aged man’s sinonasal cavity adjoining the brain, using minimal invasive method at...

New Delhi: An indigenous paper-strip COVID-19 diagnostic test, named after one of India’s most famous fictitious detectives 'FELUDA', recently received approval from the Drugs Controller General of India for a...

New Delhi: In a recently released National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data 'Family Problems' were the leading cause of suicide in 2019, accounting for 32.4 percent of all suicides in...

Kharagpur: For those of us who squirm at the sight of an injection needle, here is good news. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur have developed a...

Puri: Amid the rising COVID-19 cases, the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) has decided to identify servitors and their families, especially the elderly with serious ailments, for medical screening and...