Washington, Nov 18 (IANS) Overexposure to ultraviolet rays is among the hazards of working in the harsh Antarctic environs, says a new study. The study by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) and Australian ...

New York, Nov 17 (DPA) Close to 12 million people in Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone will be vaccinated against yellow fever in the largest-ever health campaign in Africa, the World Health ...

New York, Nov 17 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A government task force said on Monday that most women don't need mammograms in their 40s at all, and should get one every two years when ...

New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) With 39 new dengue cases reported in the national capital Tuesday, the total number of people infected with the vector-borne disease touched 883, health officials said. ...

New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) The national capital Monday reported 32 new dengue cases, taking the total number of people affected by the vector-borne disease to 844. "We have recorded 32 new dengue ...

New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) Delhi Saturday recorded 34 new cases of dengue, taking the total number of cases due to the vector-borne disease to 783, health officials said. "In the past 24 ...

Lucknow, Nov 13 (IANS) A newborn baby died in an Uttar Pradesh hospital after falling from a bed that was shared by him, his mother, another woman and another infant, an official ...

New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) The Indian capital reported 42 new dengue cases Tuesday, taking the number of patients to 627 on a day when the union health ministry admitted that the ...

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) With more than 550 cases of dengue reported in the national capital, Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia will meet Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit later Monday to discuss ...

New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) At least 29 fresh cases of dengue were reported here Saturday, taking the total number of people affected by the vector-borne disease in the capital to 527, ...

New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) With 29 new dengue cases reported in the capital Saturday, the total number of those affected by the vector-borne disease rose to 527, health officials said. "There were ...

Chandigarh, Nov 6 (IANS) A court in Haryana's Narnaul town has sentenced a government doctor to three years of rigorous imprisonment after convicting him for corruption, officials of the state's vigilance bureau ...

New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS) The national capital Friday recorded 25 fresh dengue cases taking the number of people affected by the vector-borne disease to 489, officials said. "There were 25 fresh cases ...

New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) As the national capital Thursday recorded 26 new cases of dengue, taking the total number of cases of the vector-borne disease to 464, Delhi Mayor Kanwar Sain ...

Sundergarh (Orissa), Nov 5(ANI): Five students from Kanyashrama School in Orissa's Sundergarh district have tested positive for Swine flu. According to reports, some students from the school complained of normal fever. Later, ...

New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) The national capital Thursday recorded 26 new cases of dengue, taking the total number of cases of the vector-borne disease to 464, health department officials said. "There ...

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) The capital recorded 19 new cases of dengue Tuesday, taking the total number of cases of the vector-borne disease in New Delhi to 416, a health department ...

New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) At least 16 new cases of dengue were reported Monday, taking the total number of cases of the vector-borne disease in the national capital to 391, a ...

Bhubaneswar, Nov 1 (IANS) Panic gripped a residential girls' school in Orissa's Sundergarh district after two students tested positive for swine flu. Swab samples of two students of the Jampali Government Girls ...

New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) Fourteen cases of dengue were confirmed Sunday morning, taking the total number of cases of the vector-borne disease in the national capital to 366, a health department ...

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) The capital recorded 24 new cases of dengue Friday, pushing the total number of cases of the vector-borne disease in the city to 344, health department officials ...

Lucknow, Oct 30 (IANS) Caste discrimination allegedly claimed the life of a young Dalit woman, who died after delivering a stillborn child Thursday, as the staff of a government-run medical centre in ...

New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) The national capital is seeing an alarming rise in the number of dengue cases, with 18 new cases reported Thursday. This takes the total number of confirmed ...

New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) The Indian capital Monday recorded one more dengue death, taking the total toll to two, health officials said. So far Delhi has reported 255 positive cases of ...

Imphal, Oct 26 (IANS) Healthcare facilities in Manipur will come to a halt Wednesday when doctors go on a daylong strike to protest the killing of a colleague by unidentified gunmen. ...

New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) Delhi recorded 130 cases of dengue until late Tuesday. While officials say that this is the time of the year when an increasing number of people fall ...

Bhubaneswar, Oct 17 (IANS) More than 50 people, including women and children, fell sick after eating rice at a religious festival in a village in Orissa's Mayurbhanj district, an official said Saturday. The ...

Bhubaneswar, Oct 12 (IANS) Six children have died of malaria in last seven days in Malkangiri district of Orissa, an official said Monday. The deaths have been reported from the district's Siadimal ...

Nagpur, Oct.9 (ANI): The four policemen badly injured in an attack by Maoists in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra are responding to medical treatment, said doctors attending them in Nagpur on Friday. Maoists ...

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Oct 2 (IANS) Chandigarh may claim to be the cleanest city in India but an ambitious multi-million rupee plan of local authorities to make it still cleaner with imported ...