Health

New Delhi, Feb 5 : Three weeks into the Covid immunisation drive, Delhi started to vaccinate its frontline workers on a pilot basis since Thursday at select vaccination centres to test the process before rolling it out full scale from Saturday, offic…

Hyderabad, Feb 5 : Telangana achieved a landmark in its fight against Covid-19 as the state crossed 80 lakh mark in the number of tests conducted so far.With 37,387 tests conducted during the last 24 hours, the cumulative number reached 80,34,038.Acc…

New Delhi, Feb 5 : The most vulnerable age group of people in the country, those aged above 50 will get the first jab in March second week onwards, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan informed Parliament on Friday.The Health Minister said since the …

Lucknow, Feb 5 : Uttar Pradesh has become the first state in the country to have vaccinated over 5.5 lakh people against Covid-19.According to information from the state health department, as many as 5.89 lakh health workers have received the vaccine…

New Delhi, Feb 4 : The latest serosurvey conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has revealed that nearly three times more Indians may have been exposed to coronavirus as compared to the country’s current Covid-19 tally.As per the …

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 4 : The police at the Taliparamba police station in Kannur district remained silent even as people gathered in large numbers at an ‘Adalat’ attended by Kerala Health Minister K.K.Shailaja without adhering to the Covid-19 proto…

New Delhi, Feb 4 : The Union Health Ministry on Thursday announced that healthcare workers would start receiving the second dose of Covid-19 vaccines from February 13 onwards.Niti Aayog’s Member (Health) and National Expert Group on Vaccine Administ…

Hyderabad, Feb 4 : The number of healthcare workers vaccinated against Covid-19 in Telangana rose to 1,88,097 with 11,547 more private healthcare workers taking the jab on Thursday.Health officials said 44.3 per cent of 26,056 beneficiaries planned t…

Mumbai, Feb 4 : On the occasion of World Cancer Day, Nita M. Ambani inaugurated a ‘One-Stop Breast Clinic’ at the Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital, here on Thursday.With breast cancer being the commonest form of cancer detected in women global…

New Delhi, Feb 4 : According to statistics released by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in December 2020 and cited by the World Health Organization (WHO), breast cancer has now surpassed lung cancer as the world’s most commonly …