Health

Medical waste released from government and private healthcare establishments in the country is posing serious threat to public health and environment. Experts said deadly diseases may spread among people due to rampant dumping of a huge quantity of medical waste, which is released from hospitals across the country every day. Meanwhile, the government has taken an initiative to ensure proper ...

India has already begun to experience scorching temperatures as summer draws closer. Particularly from May through July, the weather can change drastically from region to region, with some parts of the country having particularly hot and dry conditions while others experiencing hot and humid weather. To cope with the heat, it’s critical to heed the recommendations given below to protect ...

Covid-19 and the climate crisis, which have caused unprecedented disruptions across the world, had a similar negative impact on young Indians’ mental health, showed a study by international researchers, including from India, published on Friday in the journal The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia. Climate change affected the mental health and wellbeing of children and adolescents. Young people with ...

The World Health Organization warned Tuesday that fighters in conflict-ravaged Sudan had occupied a central public laboratory holding samples of diseases including polio and measles, creating an “extremely, extremely dangerous” situation. “There is a huge biological risk associated with the occupation of the central public health lab… by one of the fighting parties,” Nima Saeed Abid, the WHO’s representative in ...

As we all know H3N2 is a strain of the influenza virus that behaves like Coronavirus in the body with flu-like symptoms. While Ayurveda does not offer any cure for H3N2 virus, it certainly helps with ways to ward off and overcome the virus by boosting your immunity. In the current season when winter is gone and summer is gradually ...

Bangladesh reported four more Covid cases in the 24 hours till Sunday morning. With the new numbers, the country’s total caseload rose to 2,038,154, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). However, the official death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,446 as no new fatalities were reported. The daily case test positivity increased to 1.52 percent ...

Checking high blood pressure and uncontrolled diabetics can be the crucial means of substantial and sustainable reduction of mortality and morbidity caused by heart diseases. Number of various non communicable diseases (NCD), including cardiac ailments and stroke, is increasing sharply as reckless life-style and food habits are largely responsible for the diseases, BSS reports. Hypertensions, diabetes, obesity, having unhealthy diets ...

The World Health Organization on Tuesday warned the Covid pandemic was still volatile, saying there could be further trouble before the virus settles into a predictable pattern. In the last 28 days, more than 23,000 deaths and three million new cases have been reported to the WHO, in the context of much-reduced testing. While the numbers are decreasing, “that’s still ...

The total number of Covid-19 cases in the world is now approaching 686 million. According to the latest global data, the total Covid-19 case count amounted to 685,733,272 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,842,937 this morning. The US has reported 106,475,031 Covid-19 cases so far, while 1,158,255 people have died from the virus in the country — ...

Relics of ancient viruses – that have spent millions of years hiding inside human DNA – help the body fight cancer, say scientists. The study by the Francis Crick Institute showed the dormant remnants of these old viruses are woken up when cancerous cells spiral out of control. This unintentionally helps the immune system target and attack the tumour. The ...