HMPV Virus: How deadly is this virus? China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention sheds light on fatality rateChina's CDC addresses the Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) outbreak, stating it typically causes common cold symptoms but can lead to severe re...
06 Jan, 2025, 05.30 PM IST
Fight against Disease X: Scientists identify essential prevention tacticPrevention of Disease X: research paper argues for reducing zoonotic virus transmission to prevent pandemics by reducing contact with high-...
20 Feb, 2024, 09.44 AM IST
Rising temperature & worsening AQI may increase heart attacks, blood sugar & risk of lung cancer: WHOAlmost 99 percent of the world's population breathes air that exceeds the WHO's guidelines for air pollution.
28 Nov, 2023, 08.09 AM IST
UN Climate talks embrace first-ever 'Health Day' amidst urgent calls to tackle global warming's health impactPreceding the UN climate talks, heightened focus emerges on global warming's health impact. The WHO highlights extreme heat, air pollution,...
26 Nov, 2023, 12.17 PM IST
Childhood respiratory illness may turn fatal in adulthood: StudyRespiratory illness may actually decrease life span, even as an adult!
10 Mar, 2023, 08.34 PM IST
Respiratory infections in a child could lead to death as an adult: StudyThe first-of-its-kind study spanning over seven decades suggests that people who had a lower-respiratory-tract infection (LRTI), such as br...
08 Mar, 2023, 12.39 AM IST
Cold virus caused 100,000 deaths worldwide in kids in 2019: LancetRSV is a major paediatric respiratory virus, that usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms, and hospitalises about three million children un...
20 May, 2022, 06.04 PM IST
Covid-recovered patients still showing symptoms even after two years later, shows new studyPatients who had required mechanical ventilation for critical illness still had high rates of lung impairments at two years.
16 May, 2022, 05.39 PM IST
India to get first doses of Sputnik V vaccine by May 1: RDIF CEODmitriev, in an interview with CNN on Monday, said that the first doses will arrive in India on May 1. He also stated that India would be o...
27 Apr, 2021, 06.28 PM IST
Experimental drug can speed up COVID-19 recovery, says new studyAccording to the researchers, people who were treated with the drug cleared the virus quickly with the effect being most pronounced in thos...
08 Feb, 2021, 03.54 PM IST
After 'amavasya' tweet, Bachchan claims coronavirus spreads through flies, gets flak from netizens & Health MinistryHealth Ministry was quick to refute Bachchan's claim.
27 Mar, 2020, 11.54 AM IST
Why global warming is so harmful for your heart and kidneysMore and more people around the world are at risk of heat-related death and diseases due to climate change, according to the global report ...
29 Nov, 2018, 02.16 PM IST
No conclusive data on direct correlation of death, disease with air pollution: Govt05 Feb, 2018, 07.10 PM IST
Malnutrition India's biggest health hazard, air pollution a close secondIschaemic heart disease that is greatly influenced by air pollution has gone up from rank 5 to number 1, diabetes from rank 22 to rank 5 an...
15 Nov, 2017, 12.08 PM IST
COPD, other air pollution related diseases on rise, says new health dataA new report released on Tuesday has concluded that air pollution is the second leading risk factor for disability-adjusted life years (DAL...
14 Nov, 2017, 09.42 PM IST
Government sceptical about studies linking deaths to pollutionThe ministry had submitted the affidavit in response to a comprehensive action plan, prepared by the the Supreme Court appointed EPCA.
21 Oct, 2017, 03.49 PM IST
India tops the world in pollution-related deathsAt 1.81 million, India tops the charts, with China second at 1.58 million. Globally, air pollution accounts for twice the number of deaths ...
21 Oct, 2017, 01.02 AM IST