Health

Guwahati, May 21 : As many as 19 cancer hospitals will be set up in Assam within two years, including one in Guwahati, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday.The government has already identified sites for 13 of the 19 proposed cancer hos…

Kolkata, May 21 : In what is claimed to be the first human-to-human heart transplant in eastern India, surgeons in a Kolkata private hospital on Monday transplanted the heart of a 21-year-old man who died in Bengaluru a day back on a 39-year-old pati…

New Delhi, May 21 : The Central government on Monday assured all support to the Kerala government and sent a Central team to check the outbreak of the Nipah virus (NiV) that has taken three lives while eight patients are under intensive care.”We are …

Kozhikode (Kerala) May 21 : After three confirmed deaths due to the Nipah virus (NiV), and reports on eight other patients awaited, Kerala Health Minister K.K.Shailaja on Monday said things are under control and there is no need to panic.”All the per…

Lucknow, May 21 : The death toll in last weeks hooch tragedy in Kanpur rural rose to 13 on Monday, as eight more persons died after consuming spurious liquor, police said.Five persons had died on Saturday and two more died in a Kanpur medical facilit…

Kozhikode/Thiruvananthapuram, May 20 : The cause of death of two people, ostensibly suffering from fever, in Kozhikode has now been confirmed to be due to the Nipah virus (NiV), spread by fruit bats and causing severe disease in both animals and huma…

Kolkata, May 20 : In wake of the uncovering of the sensational carcass meat racket in West Bengal, a truck load of stale chicken and eggs was seized from the state’s West Midnapore district, police said on Sunday.The seizure took place on Saturday ni…

Kozhikode (Kerala), May 20 : Kerala Health Minister K.K. Shailaja on Sunday said the cause of death of three members of a family here remains to be ascertained and urged people not to spread false news about a rare virus being responsible.She also te…

Hyderabad, May 19 : The Drugs Controller General of India plans to come out with vaccine specific regulatory policy and a manual for regulatory requirements for commercialization of new drug and on how to conduct clinical trials in India, it was anno…

Hyderabad, May 19 : The Drugs Controller General of India plans to come out with vaccine specific regulatory policy and a manual for regulatory requirements for commercialization of new drug and on how to conduct clinical trials in India, it was anno…