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Ahead of the International Day of Yoga, Saima Wazed, Regional Director for WHO South-East Asia spoke about this year’s theme, “Yoga for One Earth, One Health,” reminds us of the …

Director of Public Health, Odisha, Dr Nilakantha Mishra, said on Friday that there is a sudden rise in diarrhoea cases in the last three days, with over 200 people affected …

Srinivas Mukkamala was elected President of the American Medical Association, the first person of Indian origin to lead the organisation in its 178-year history. “To call this moment humbling doesn’t …

The Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA) on Thursday welcomed the exclusion of pharmaceuticals from US tariffs, with Secretary General Sudarshan Jain emphasising the deepening of India-US trade ties under the Mission …

The Embassy of India in Kathmandu, along with the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration, Government of Nepal and Project Implementing Agencies of Government of Nepal signed Memorandum of …

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday highlighted the Modi government’s achievements in the health sector at the inauguration program of Maharaja Agrasen Medical College. During an event in Hisar, …

The first-ever US-India Cancer Moonshot Dialogue was held in New Delhi, with a focus on cancer, strengthening US-India biomedical research cooperation, and jointly developing solutions to improve the health and …

India and Denmark in Monday started a four-day bilateral dialogue between the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India and Statens Serum …

India hosted a side event on women, children and adolescent health in collaboration with Norway, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Partnership for …

Britain’s National Health Service will be the first in the world to offer an under-the-skin injection to cancer patients which can be administered in a mere 7 minutes. This will …

By Anusha Subramanian Recently, I was on a trek with a group of seven women, and among them was Vandana Kulkarni and her 10-year-old non-verbal autistic child, Vihaan. This was …

Researchers at the University of Verona in Italy have carried out lab tests that show Espresso coffee prevents the aggregation of the troublesome tau protein which leads to the brain-wasting …

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has fixed the retail prices of 51 medicines which include those used for treating heart ailments, blood pressure  and diabetes. In a notification dated …

A novel product that enables women to know whether they are pregnant through a saliva test at home has been launched in the UK and Ireland markets. UK news outlet …

Consuming a healthy, balanced diet is crucial in this digital age where the majority of people spend more than half of their waking hours on laptops, desktops, and smartphones in …

The Serum Institute of India and the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) are set to launch India’s first indigenously developed Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus vaccine (qHPV) against Cervical Cancer on September 1. …

In what can be described as a landmark initiative in the sphere of inclusivity, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s National …

<p> Only half of the parents recognize that screen time has a major impact on their child's eye health, suggests the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health …

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<p>  A team at NYU Langone Health successfully transplanted two genetically engineered pig hearts into recently brain-dead humans in June and July, marking the latest advances toward addressing the nationwide …

<p> With the number of monkeypox cases increasing rapidly worldwide, the World Health Organization has decided to take a relook on whether the outbreak constitutes a public health emergency of …