Medical

Puri: A young groom in Puri district has won all round applause for pledging to donate his body at his marriage reception. According to reports, Rakesh Kumar Mohanty of Amalapada...

Bhubaneswar: A Central government committee’s recommendation to cut down the duration of MBBS course by a year is a “disaster” and “not well thought out idea”,  eminent neurosurgeon from Odisha,...

Ludhiana: In a case of extreme negligence, a team of doctors was accused of leaving a towel inside a woman’s womb during a C-section delivery at the Civil Hospital here...

Seoul: A recent study in South Korea has added to growing evidence on airborne transmission of novel coronavirus. The study -- carried out by a group of epidemiologists led by...

Bhubaneswar: For the second time in Odisha’s medical history, living-donor liver transplantation was successfully undertaken at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, faculty of medicine of SOA Deemed...

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...