Health

New Delhi: Chicken pox vaccine can be effective against Mpox, the infectious disease, causing a deadly outbreak in Africa, according to a Professor at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU). Speaking to IANS, Dr Gopal Nath of BHU’s…

London: Taking research on love to a whole new level, a team of scientists on Monday revealed that different types of love light up different parts of the brain. Humans use the word ‘love’ in several range of contexts -- from sexual…

New Delhi: Monkeypox (Mpox) has once again surged to global attention and unlike the 2022 outbreak, the 2024 outbreak is impacting a broader demographic globally, a latest Lancet report has warned. The report mentioned that with the…

New Delhi: People who sleep poorly are likely to experience greater levels of fatty triglycerides -- a type of blood cholesterol -- and abdominal fat that can increase the risk of stroke, heart disease, and other health issues, according to…

New Delhi: Scientists have found a mutation in the SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic, that can cause infection in the brain’s central nervous system. The discoveries might clarify the riddle of "long Covid" and its…

Bengaluru: In response to growing concerns over the spread of the Monkeypox (Mpox) virus in several countries, Karnataka's Medical Education Minister, Dr Sharan Prakash Patil, chaired a high level meeting on Friday. The meeting at Vikasa…

New Delhi: Respiratory droplets might play a role in the spread of Mpox but not as efficiently as Covid-19 or even flu, said infectious disease experts on Wednesday. Mpox is a viral zoonotic disease that occurs primarily in tropical…

New Delhi: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi on Tuesday issued a protocol for handling patients with suspected monkeypox -- a disease that has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the…

New Delhi: Amid the rising frequency of bird flu infections in mammals and the recent H5N1 strain infection of dairy cows in the US, a new study on Monday decoded how the virus crosses the species barrier to affect mammals and humans.…

Khartoum: Sudan's Health Minister Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim on Saturday officially declared a cholera outbreak in the country. "The lab test of watery diarrhea at the Public Health Laboratory proves it to be cholera," Ibrahim said in a…