Almost 99 percent of the world's population breathes air that exceeds the WHO's guidelines for air pollution.

Preceding the UN climate talks, heightened focus emerges on global warming's health impact. The WHO highlights extreme heat, air pollution,...

An international team of experts has warned that the number of deaths caused by extreme heat will increase nearly fivefold in the coming de...

Infectious diseases cause three million deaths among children and adolescents annually, with India, Nigeria, and Pakistan having the larges...

The BA.2.75.2 variant of Omicron largely evades neutralising antibodies in the blood and is resistant to several COVID-19 antibody therapie...

"More importantly, the scientists also observed that the spike-specific T-cell responses were conserved against both the delta variant and ...

"We are at a critical point in the pandemic as we see cases rising worldwide due to the Delta variant. Breakthrough infections are expected...

The protective effect of a single dose of vaccination is evident from 4 weeks to at least 7 weeks after vaccination, which provides some ev...

Covaxin, a whole-virion inactivated coronavirus vaccine, is the first and only product to have published any data from human clinical trial...

The researchers from King's College London in the UK also found that most systemic side effects -- meaning side effects excluding where the...

The strain, known as B.1.1.7, was identified in Britain late last year and has become the most common strain in the United States, accordin...

India’s first indigenous Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin, codenamed BBV152, is safe, immunogenic and has no serious adverse effects, medical journ...

The new test, based on the design of a DNA test developed by a professor at Imperial College London, received approval for clinical use by ...

While it was assumed that India's annual TB cases stands at 2.2 million a year, the study pegs this number at over 3.8 million in 2014.

Dengue imposes a whopping $8.9 billion economic burden every year on 141 countries and territories where active transmission of the disease...

The Lancet has distanced itself from authors of superbug article, saying magazine never accused Indian officials of a cover-up.

International health journal Lancet has slammed the government for "suppressing" truth about the presence of a drug-resistant bacteria in D...