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Even as the wrath of the Covid-19 pandemic begins to wade, the horrors of the medical emergency still seem fresh in the memories

Updated On: 25 May 2023 | 9:58 PM IST

The Australian government will ban the import of non-prescription vaping products including non-nicotine devices

Updated On: 09 May 2023 | 3:20 PM IST

In a worst-case scenario, a bird flu type virus that mutates to allow human-to-human transmission could kill as many as 15,000 people in the UK in a single day

Updated On: 14 Apr 2023 | 3:04 PM IST

"The diseases caused by contaminated food and water, from cholera to other gastroenteritis such as diarrhoea, are our primary concerns," Ertugrul told Xinhua in an interview

Updated On: 04 Mar 2023 | 8:38 AM IST

Covid-19 will not be the last epidemic or pandemic humanity faces, he warned

Updated On: 28 Dec 2022 | 8:14 AM IST

Yoga can help prevent cardiovascular diseases that have significantly gone up due to poor lifestyle choices, lack of exercise, wrong diet and increased stress, and may develop into an epidemic in India in the coming decade, according to eminent experts. India will replace all western nations to be the country with the largest number of heart diseases in the coming decade, the American Academy of Yoga and Meditation (AAYM) has warned. AAYM is a non-profit organisation of physicians, scientists, and other academicians who hold regular teaching lessons for physicians to understand and use yoga in clinical practice. With an epidemic of diabetes mellitus and hypertension, India is slated to be the world's cardiovascular disease capital, said the American academy which along with its public platform called the Ganges Mississippi dialogue, is holding an online symposium to highlight how yoga can be used to prevent cardiovascular diseases. These diseases, including heart attack, stroke, ..

Updated On: 31 Aug 2022 | 10:25 AM IST

Follow the expanding footprint of the coronavirus pandemic across the world in this interactive map built by Johns Hopkins University

Updated On: 20 Jul 2022 | 8:58 AM IST

British health officials reported another 50 cases of monkeypox across the country on Friday, for a total of 574 cases. That makes the U.K.'s outbreak the biggest to date beyond Africa

Updated On: 18 Jun 2022 | 7:57 AM IST

The United States has announced a funding of $122 million to top three Indian medical research institutions to prevent avoidable epidemics, early detection of disease threats

Updated On: 16 Jun 2022 | 10:46 AM IST

First identified in monkeys, the disease typically spreads through close contact and has rarely spread outside Africa, so this series of cases has triggered concern.

Updated On: 21 May 2022 | 2:19 AM IST

Domestically produced variant-proof jabs are part of a global project to develop vaccines for future epidemics

Updated On: 20 May 2022 | 6:05 AM IST

Why do medical students go to Ukraine? What is Jim Rogers's investment strategy during crises? Will Russia's removal from global indices benefit India? What are pandemic and endemic? All answers here

Updated On: 03 Mar 2022 | 8:00 AM IST

Covid-19's dreadful journey started from China as an epidemic, before it turned into a pandemic. Now, the third wave is likely to become endemic here. So, what is the difference between these terms?

Updated On: 03 Mar 2022 | 8:45 AM IST

The notification makes it compulsory for all hospitals to provide information to the government about any such case that they receive.

Updated On: 31 Oct 2021 | 8:50 AM IST

A coronavirus epidemic broke out in the East Asia region more than 20,000 years ago, similar to the current Covid-19 pandemic, an international study of human genomes has discovered.

Updated On: 28 Jun 2021 | 9:16 AM IST

Putting out an official notification, the Delhi government on Thursday declared Mucormycosis an epidemic

Updated On: 28 May 2021 | 7:26 AM IST

Odisha government on Thursday declared Mucormycosis (Black Fungus) as a notifiable disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act 1897

Updated On: 21 May 2021 | 7:37 AM IST

A set of graphics tracking how the number of coronavirus positive cases have moved on a daily basis since India's total touched 100 on March 15

Updated On: 04 Feb 2021 | 6:40 PM IST

The Supreme Court refused to entertain a plea challenging the constitutional validity of the Epidemic Act and questioned the petitioner as to why he has not moved the high court on the issue

Updated On: 17 Nov 2020 | 1:11 PM IST

Refer to these tables for data on confirmed coronavirus cases, deaths and recoveries in India and across the world

Updated On: 30 Sep 2020 | 11:39 AM IST