Health

New Delhi, Dec 21 : The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday sent a notice to the Central and Uttarakhand governments, seeking details of an unknown virus or disease reportedly spreading across the Gangotri National Park and infecting the wildli…

Jaipur, Dec 21 : The Rajasthan government on Thursday urged its striking government doctors to resume work.Health Minister Kali Charan Saraf said the Ministry had worked on the doctors’ demands so that all the 18 issues raised by them were fulfilled …

New Delhi, Dec 21 : Doctors at a hospital here gave a British para glider a new lease of life after he suffered severe fractures in head, face and chest during an expedition in Himachal Pradesh.Anthony Barry Roberts, a 55-year-old trained para-glider…

New Delhi, Dec 21 : The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has written to the Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO), seeking the necessary steps to display health and pollution-related warning on firecracker boxes, like the ones on …

New Delhi, Dec 21 : The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has written to the Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO), seeking the necessary steps to display health and pollution-related warning on firecracker boxes, like the ones on …

New Delhi, Dec 21 : Over 1,000 retailers of tobacco products on Thursday protested outside the Union Health Ministry office here, demanding reduction in the size of the graphical health warnings on cigarette packets.According to the retailers, protes…

Bhubaneswar, Dec 21 : Ganga and Jamuna, conjoined girl twins of Odisha’s Nayagarh district who shared a single heart and liver, died at Sishu Bhawan in Cuttack on Wednesday night, the hospital authorities said on Thursday.The conjoined twins died dur…

New Delhi, Dec 21 : Advances in medical sciences this year have brought good news for humanity at large because of the progress made in gene editing technology to treat inherited diseases, and particularly to cancer patients with the approval of a ge…

Bengaluru, Dec 20 : Six-month-old siamese twins from Nigeria, James and John, were separated at a private hospital here, its doctors said on Wednesday.”The twins, who were joined at the upper part of their abdomen, were successfully separated, giving…

Bengaluru, Dec 20 : Promoting millets as a healthy diet in modern times, the Karnataka government on Wednesday revived the state’s ancient forgotten crop by making a few celebrity chefs prepare tasty dishes from the grains at a culinary symposium her…