The study tested devices with organic semi-conducting sensors, which could potentially be used as a COVID-19 screening tool.

These dogs could screen a line of several hundred people coming off a plane within half an hour.

Led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), the study published in the medical journal 'Lancet' on Friday accounted fo...

The research, published in the journal Science, noted that without stringent control measures such as limited closure of educational instit...

One mutation -- variant B117, which likely emerged in southeastern England in September, according to Imperial College London -- has now be...

England's lockdown will ease slightly on Monday, with groups of up to six people allowed to meet outside and primary schools re-opening to ...

Restrictive measures imposed by governments to tackle the pandemic are likely to have a bigger impact in poorer countries than wealthier on...

In the study, researchers, including those from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK, used mathematical modelling to ...

The anti-impotence drug Viagra helps eliminate malaria from the blood circulation which may reduce transmission of the deadly parasite from...

The results suggest that the vaccine could prevent a substantial number of cases of clinical malaria, especially in areas of high transmiss...

The study is built on previous research where it was shown that attractiveness to insects is based on differences in body odour.

Middle-aged people who are underweight are a third more likely to develop dementia than people of similar age with a healthy BMI, researche...

The study found that parents are additionally more likely to underestimate their child's weight if they are Black or south Asian.

The genetic variants are specifically linked to the most common form of breast cancer, oestrogen receptor positive, researchers said.

Worldwide, around 2.5 billion people lack access to basic sanitation facilities such as a latrine, a third of whom live in India, researche...

There are four types of Ebola virus that infect humans. The most deadly is this strain from the current epidemic, known as the 'Zaire strai...

India loses Rs 69,000 crore a year—more than twice the sum of Rs 34,488 crore it set aside for the country's health budget in 2012—to small...