The debate over whether Maggi’s 2-Minutes Noodles contains harmful chemicals like MSG and Lead beyond permissible limits, has grown intensive with many people...
Lucknow/Kolkata: Samples of 2-Minute Maggi Noodles collected by FSDA Lucknow have been found to contain Lead (Pb) and Monosodium glutamate (MSG) much more than permissible...
Central Government has constituted a Task Force to deliberate and make recommendations on various important issues concerning the Ministry of AYUSH, including the...
India’s fight against tuberculosis (TB) has made remarkable progress despite which formidable challenges remain. With the launch of ‘Call To Action For...
A new research has revealed that dogs and their humans feel connected when they gaze into each other’s eyes as they get a boost in their circulating levels...
New Delhi: If you are a regular drinker, you might want to put that gas down, as new study has revealed that consuming 3 glasses of alcohol per day can cause liver...
Nutrient deficiencies due to celiac disease and gluten intolerance require specific management in order to reverse and recover from poor nutritional status. “Celiac...
Just a few days before World Cancer Day this year, an acquaintance of mine succumbed to this dreaded disease within 10 months of diagnosis, and became part of the...
The number of cases in Swine Flu has gone up to alarmingly high levels in various states of the country.Swine Flu is spreading as an epidemic in IndiaStates...
The Federation of Indian Thalassaemias and Thalassaemia International Federation recently organized a meet in Lucknow to focus attention of the state government...
London: Discarded cigarette ash can help remove deadly arsenic from water, finds a new study. While the technology for removing arsenic from water exists and...
Washington: Females have been known to be naturally more resistant to respiratory infections than males. Now, scientists have shown that the increased resistance...
New York: For treating social anxiety disorder, the cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is more effective and can have lasting effects long after treatment has...
New Delhi: Life would have been a smooth journey for 52-year-old Zia-us-Salaam (name changed), had frustration not seeped into his life. Victim of erectile dysfunction...
London: The famous non-surgical cosmetic procedure Botox has a negative side to it. The wrinkle smoothing injections may affect emotional growth of young people,...
Tokyo: A new ‘nano’ coating technology promises to dress burn wounds not only on the flat and broad part of human body but also at curves, wrinkles and...
Debunking earlier figures stating that 80 percent of our genome has some biochemical function, Oxford researchers now report that only 8.2 percent of our DNA is...
Siliguri/Kolkata: Under attack over her government’s failure to combat the spread of encephalitis in northern West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday...
Agartala: The Tripura High Court has observed that medical negligence can be termed a criminal offence, a lawyer said here Friday. “A doctor in Agartala after...
London: In pioneering research, a scientist has developed a ‘simulated’ human heart to test the effect of drugs on the heart without using human or animal...
Sydney: Probiotics found in yogurt, fermented and sour milk, cheese and dietary supplements not only improve the functioning of your gut but can also help lower...
New York: Aakriti Gupta, an Indian-origin researcher at the Yale School of Medicine, has found that women have longer hospital stays and are more likely than men...
Washington: In pathbreaking work, a team of researchers has linked 108 genetic locations to schizophrenia. The feat was achieved by the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium...
Even after twenty years of introduction in the US, awareness about female condom is alarmingly limited among young adults, says a study. Introduced first in the...
Sydney: Australian authorities have approved a condom developed in the country which contains a substance that destroys AIDS-causing HIV and other sexually transmitted...
Chandigarh: Haryana has heightened the crackdown against illegal sex determination tests to reverse the negative image caused by its skewed gender ratio. This has...
Bhubaneswar: An integrated facility for patients combining allopathic and alternative medication and a 100-bed super-speciality mental health centre would be some...
London: A British study has suggested that just 20 minuteS of exercising, thrice a week, could drastically reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s.Woman suffering from...
Conscious of the government’s responsibility to reducing the number of maternal and child deaths in accordance with United Nations Millennium Development Goals...
Bhubaneswar: At least 15 people, including a 14-year-old girl and two women, were infected by anthrax in Odisha after eating contaminated meat, an official said...
Toronto: Flavoured cigarettes appeal the youth and teenagers, who use menthol cigarettes, more per day than their peers who smoke non-menthols, says a study. “The...
Kolkata: The parents of 12-year-old Arian Chowdhury, who suffers from a rare genetic disease, plan to meet union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan to demand treatment...
Do you know why you look for chocolates or sweets when under intense stress? Because stress-activated hormones are hidden in oral taste cells responsible for detection...
London: The much speculated birth control pill for males may not see the light of day soon as researchers have found that hormonal male contraception via testosterone...
New Delhi: Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister, has decided to request the Chief Ministers of all states for their cooperation to set up...
With nearly 35% of India’s adult population (age 15+) consuming some form of tobacco, there are around 275 million people in the country smoking and/or chewing...
Toronto: Amid claims that e-cigarettes can also pause cancer risks, a study has found that young adults believe electronic cigarettes are less harmful than regular...
“You have AIDS,” a counselor said to me in 1997. I don’t remember the exact date, but suddenly everything went blank. The counselor had spoken to me for...