Zydus Lifesciences is set to develop a combination vaccine against shigellosis and typhoid with the Gates Foundation's support. The vaccine...

High faecal bacteria in Ganga at Prayagraj raises health concerns during Mahakumbh. A woman developed a severe lung infection after taking ...

"If enforced strictly, the regulations will ensure safer food products for consumers by setting stricter residue and contaminant limits acr...

A recent ICMR report highlights a troubling rise in antibiotic resistance in India. Diseases like UTIs, blood infections, pneumonia, and ty...

During the monsoon season, enjoying street foods like momos can be risky due to increased contamination from bacteria, viruses, and fungi. ...

Tomatoes have been turned into purple by researchers and they have claimed that the nutritional value has gone up, Fox Weather reported quo...

Conjunctivitis, which at this moment is common in Delhi, is also caused by viruses or bacteria and presents as eye redness, itching, eye di...

Dr Aarti Nangia, senior consultant, ophthalmology at Fortis Hospital, Vasant Kunj here, said there has been an "increase" in cases of eye i...

According to the study, quinolone-resistant strains accounted for more than 85% of S Typhi (the bacteria that causes Typhoid fever) in Bang...

In many situations, stopping antibiotics sooner is a safe way to reduce antibiotic overuse, said a paper published in the British Medical J...

Doctors say that while earlier oral drugs could cure most patients, they now need to give injectable antibiotics to 20-30% of the patients ...

Some of the most common ones include viral fever, the common cold, malaria, typhoid, hepatitis A, leptospirosis, diarrhoea and chikungunya.

Around 4,20,000 people die each year from eating contaminated food globally with children under the age of five accounting for nearly one t...

The findings establish for the first time the causal link between bacterial infection and gallbladder cancer.

An antibiotic-resistant strain of typhoid bacterium is spreading globally and posing a public health threat, especially in developing count...

To prevent open defecation along the Dhamra coast, DRDO have taken up a project of installing 1000 bio-toilets.

Mongia pointed out that the feces from the sewerage mixes with most of the waters that is being supplied in Delhi that led to such contamin...