Zika virus testing can now be done at AIIMS Rajkot; results to be available in 24 hoursAIIMS Rajkot has been recognized as a Zika virus screening center, reducing the need to send samples to Pune for testing. According to Prof...
31 Jul, 2024, 06.28 PM IST
Chandipura Virus Spreads in Gujarat: Symptoms, precautions, treatments, and all you need to know about the deadly virusChandipura Virus (Google Trends): The Chandipura virus has raised concerns in Gujarat's Aravalli district, with six deaths reported, though...
16 Jul, 2024, 03.12 PM IST
New research says choice of arm for second Covid jab could influence immune responseGetting the second dose of Covid vaccine on the same arm of the first one could produce more infection-fighting antibodies compared to rece...
15 Aug, 2023, 08.33 AM IST
What is 'Disease X'? UK Scientists prepare vaccines against potential new pandemicA group comprising over 200 scientists is gearing up at a heavily fortified facility in the United Kingdom, diligently bracing for the next...
07 Aug, 2023, 06.05 PM IST
IISC-Bangalore develops 'green' tech to rid air filters of germsA research team led by Prof Suryasarathi Bose and Prof Kaushik Chatterjee at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, has developed a...
20 Dec, 2022, 04.18 PM IST
Next Covid-19 strain may be more dangerous: Lab studyThe study, led by Alex Sigal at the Africa Health Research Institute in the South African city of Durban, indicates that the Covid-19 patho...
26 Nov, 2022, 10.40 PM IST
Bacterial infections behind death of one in eight persons in 2019The mortality rate associated with bacterial infections was highest in Sub-Saharan Africa and lowest in high-income regions, including West...
22 Nov, 2022, 12.36 AM IST
COVID-19: 332 deaths, over 17K cases in DelhiDelhi had reported 19,832 cases on Friday, 19,133 cases on Thursday, 20,960 cases on Wednesday, 19,953 on Tuesday, 18,043 on Monday, 20,394...
08 May, 2021, 10.13 PM IST
341 COVID-19 deaths, over 19,000 cases in DelhiThis is the fourth time in the last five days that the number of new cases remained below 20,000.
07 May, 2021, 06.11 PM IST
Swiss pharma giant Roche to buy American firm GenMark Diagnostics for $1.8 billionRoche said it is offering $24.05 a share for GenMark, a premium of some 43 percent to its last quoted share price on February 10.
15 Mar, 2021, 01.48 PM IST
Government being overconfident about COVID, it's not over yet: Rahul GandhiFor the first time in India, four people were detected with the South Africa variant of SARS-CoV-2 and one tested positive for the Brazil v...
17 Feb, 2021, 12.10 PM IST
67,151 new COVID-19 cases; 1,059 deaths in IndiaIndia's novel coronavirus tally rose to 32.34 lakh on Wednesday with 67,151 more people testing positive for the infection, while the recov...
26 Aug, 2020, 11.39 AM IST
DMK opposes reopening of liquor outlets in ChennaiDMK President M K Stalin on Monday urged the Tamil Nadu government not to open TASMAC retail liquor outlets here from August 18, saying it ...
17 Aug, 2020, 01.22 PM IST
Delhi records lowest single-day coronavirus deaths since July 1There were 613 COVID-19 cases on July 27, the lowest in the last two months. It, however, increased to 1,056 the next day and slightly decl...
02 Aug, 2020, 07.17 PM IST
'Contagion', 'Pandemic', 'Plague Inc': Demand for disease-themed movies, games at an all-time high amidst coronavirus outbreakToday's non-stop news cycle pushes people to the Internet to make sense of their fears.
21 Feb, 2020, 04.30 PM IST
Government report says KFC samples unsafe; chain rejects report“There is no possibility of any microbial development in our food, which is freshly cooked at 170 degrees Celsius," the KFC spokesman said.
26 Jun, 2015, 11.38 AM IST
- India says ban on US poultry products lifted in September 2011
"We already removed the ban on poultry and poultry products imports from the US in September last year as it was declared free of avian inf...
21 May, 2012, 02.54 AM IST