Could cruise ship passengers sue over the hantavirus outbreak?Travelers on the MV Hondius find themselves with few legal recourses following a hantavirus outbreak. Oceanwide Expeditions, the company be...
13 May, 2026, 03.49 PM IST
RKF Jr claims American teens have less testosterone than 68 year-old men in latest rantUS top health official Robert F Kennedy Jr has made bizarre claim about testosterone in American teens. The health secretary expressed conc...
24 Apr, 2025, 06.51 PM IST
'Stop this now': After claiming autism 'epidemic' in US, Robert F. Kennedy Jr's new plan faces massive backlashRobert F. Kennedy's 'autism registry' plan is facing massive backlash in the United States. National Institutes of Health is purportedly pl...
23 Apr, 2025, 06.13 PM IST
China facing new Covid-like pandemic? Here's everything we know about it so farChina Virus Outbreak News: There is no confirmation from Chinese health officials or the WHO regarding any such epidemic or state of emerge...
03 Jan, 2025, 07.58 PM IST
North Korea says new fever cases were flu, not COVID-19The state media announcement came a day after authorities said they had locked down parts of Ryanggang province -- which borders China -- a...
26 Aug, 2022, 08.05 AM IST
Purdue Pharma to plead guilty and pay $8.3 billion over opioidsThe settlement is likely to boost Purdue's effort to move past claims it helped spark a public-health crisis over opioids with its marketin...
22 Oct, 2020, 12.22 AM IST
SC asks Centre to consider adopting 'one nation, one ration card' scheme during lockdownA bench of Justices N V Ramana, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and B R Gavai, in an order passed on Monday said: “We direct the Union of India to consi...
28 Apr, 2020, 01.48 PM IST
Your health insurance policy might not cover coronavirus in these situationsSome policies won't cover the treatment of Coronavirus if it's declared a pandemic/epidemic.
09 Apr, 2020, 06.08 PM IST
ISIS advisory warns terrorists to be off coronavirus-hit EuropeThe Middle East-based terror outfit, which has in the past encouraged operatives to plot attacks in Europe, also instructed those of its fo...
16 Mar, 2020, 01.16 PM IST
Coronavirus-hit China postpones annual Parliament session: ReportThe postponement of the NPC, which is often viewed as a rubber-stamp parliament for its routine approval of the CPC proposals, is regarded ...
24 Feb, 2020, 03.43 PM IST
China's Xi Jinping writes letter to Bill Gates, thanks him for foundation's 'generosity' in the fight against coronavirusThe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has committed up to $100 mn to fight the outbreak.
22 Feb, 2020, 05.21 PM IST
China lab says conspiracy theories hurting efforts to curb virusThe institute has been accused of "artificially synthesising" the coronavirus in one of its laboratories, it said. It also referred to othe...
20 Feb, 2020, 01.38 PM IST
Tradition comes to rescue: China administers 3,000-year-old medicine on patients affected by CoronavirusTreatment in Wuhan hospitals combine TCM and western medicines.
15 Feb, 2020, 05.52 PM IST
Lack of job creation has taken form of 'epidemic' under BJP rule: PriyankaNew Delhi, Nov 21 () Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday claimed that a lack of job creation has taken the form of an "epidem...
21 Nov, 2019, 11.27 AM IST
India can end the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030: J P NaddaNadda said that his Ministry has already implemented cut-off level for initiation of Anti Retrieval Therapy (ART) to CD4 count of 500 and i...
01 Dec, 2016, 07.42 PM IST
HIV tests every 5 years can save millions of lives in IndiaProviding universal HIV testing for India's billion-plus population every five years can save millions of lives.
11 Jun, 2013, 03.02 PM IST
- Twitter can tell in advance when you will fall sick!
Social networking site Twitter can predict whether you are going to fall ill- eight days in advance, a new study has claimed.
31 Jul, 2012, 12.44 PM IST