New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) About a quarter million children could die of climate change and nearly 175 million children will be hit by disasters like floods, cyclones and droughts along with ...

Kolkata, Oct 30 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Health Dinesh Trivedi Friday said that many health parameters in India are close to that of sub-Saharan Africa. Addressing a seminar at the Health ...

London, Oct 29 (ANI): New Zealand scientists are developing an ice cream that can combat negative side effects of chemotherapy. Along with dairy giant Fonterra, researchers at the University of Auckland are working ...

Washington, Oct 22 (IANS) Eating right, not supplements, is a sure way of keeping your good bacteria in fine fettle. It is best to get the bacteria you need from healthy food, rather ...

Washington, Oct 22 (DPA) Brazil Wednesday at the Organisation of American States (OAS) denounced the "situation of torture" that the de facto government in Honduras is imposing on the Brazilian embassy in ...

New Delhi, Oct 15 (IANS) Diarrhoea kills nearly 1,000 children below the age of five everyday in India, but washing hands with soap and water can save the lives of at least ...

New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) Sending out a call for help, international NGO Save the Children estimates that around 750,000 children are in desperate need of clean water, medical care and food ...

New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) Climate change, besides other factors like poverty, is one of the main causes of high child mortality in the world today, a study by an international charity ...

Apia (Samoa), Oct 5 (Xinhua) Samoa health officials said people who have been affected by the infectious diseases after the devastating tsunami in the island are not coming forward for treatment. Hundreds of ...

London, Sep 28 (ANI): British researchers have attributed the recent rise in Clostridium difficile infections to genetic changes rather than dirty hospitals.The researchers compared an historic strain and a strain from the ...

London, Sept 26 (ANI): Popstar Lily Allen recently revealed one of her worst concert experiences when crowd in Seattle were asking for more while she was sitting on the lavatory at end ...

Washington, Sept 25 (ANI): Scientists from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute claim to have unravelled the genome of the most virulent form of hospital ...

Bhopal, Sep 17 (IANS) One of the three white tiger cubs In Indore zoo which fell ill when authorities allegedly released it prematurely for viewing in a bid to attract more tourists, ...

By Nabeel A. Khan New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) It kills nearly 500,000 children every year. But one of the lesser known facts about diarrhoea is that it also makes anti-polio drops ineffective. ...

Kolkata, Sep 11 (IANS) The food served in the Ernakulam-Guwahati Express was not responsible for the illness of 39 college girls travelling on the train, as the students were carrying their own ...

New Delhi, Sep 11 (IANS) India, Nigeria and Congo account for 40 percent of the 8.8 million deaths of children under the age of five years, a new Unicef study released Friday ...

By Radhika Bhirani New Delhi, Sep 9 (IANS) There are a few serials highlighting women's issues, one on child marriage and lots of family dramas. Now producers should touch upon topics related ...

Washington, Sep 7 (ANI): Researchers at the University of British Columbia have turned the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus into a protein production factory by adapting a single protein on its surface, thus making ...

Bhubaneswar, Sep 3 (IANS) In order to control diarrhoea and other water borne diseases in the state's Kalahandi district, the Orissa government has announced that it will give cash awards to ...

Ranchi, Sep. 1 (ANI): A three-member central team-led by joint director of National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), Uma Chawla, on Tuesday visited Orissa's diarrhoea-hit Kalahandi region where the disease has already ...

Bhubaneswar, Aug 31 (IANS) A team of medical experts Monday visited the Kalahandi district of Orissa to take stock of the situation after an outbreak of diarrhoea killed 24 people there and ...

Bhopal, Aug 28 (IANS) Three children, including a six-month-old boy, have died and more than 100 people are ill after they consumed contaminated water in Khargone district, 350 km from here, police ...

Dasmantpur (Orissa), Aug 27(ANI): Tribals living in Orissa's Dasmantpur village are deprived of basic amenities and health facilities leading to several health hazards. Locals say that the Central Government had made development ...

Bhopal, Aug 27 (IANS) Three white tiger cubs have fallen ill at Madhya Pradesh's Indore zoo allegedly due to the authorities' decision to prematurely release them into an enclosure for public viewing ...

Lucknow, Aug 24 (IANS) Even as detection of two fresh swine flu cases Monday in Uttar Pradesh pushed the count to 53, the scare of the otherwise dreaded virus appears to be ...

Bhubaneswar, Aug 24 (IANS) At least 24 people have died of diarrhoea in the past three weeks and over two dozen are being treated in Orissa's Kalahandi district, an official said Monday. ...

Indo-Asian News Service Bhubaneswar, Aug 24 (IANS) At least 24 people have died of diarrhoea in the past three weeks and over two dozen are being treated in Orissa's Kalahandi district, an official ...

London, Aug 24 (ANI): Cancer patients suffering side effects of radiotherapy are to be given an oxygen therapy which is normally provided to injured sportsmen and divers. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which is used ...

Dhaka, Aug. 19 (ANI): Figures suggest that around 17,000 children drown in Bangladesh every year, a figure that is proportionately more than anywhere else in the world. Now, according to The Independent, aid ...

Washington, August 19 (ANI): A tobacco plant has yielded a unique vaccine for norovirus, a dreaded cause of diarrhoea and vomiting. Also known as the "cruise ship virus", this microbe can spread ...