GENEVA, November 17 (Reuters): Vaccinating nine in 10 girls under 15 against cervical cancer, and improved screening and treatment of women could reduce infections by 40% and save 5 million lives by 2050,
Hyderabad, November 17 (IANS): Vaccine maker Bharat Biotech on Monday announced that it has commenced Phase-3 trials of Covaxin, India's first indigenous vaccine for Covid-19.
The Phase-3 trials, which i
New York, November 17 (IANS): Antibiotics administered to children younger than two are associated with several ongoing illnesses or conditions, ranging from allergies to obesity, warn researchers.
For
New York, November 17 (IANS): Researchers have revealed that adults with the healthiest sleep pattern have 42 per cent lower risk of heart failure regardless of other risk factors compared to adults with u
SYDNEY, NOVEMBER 15 (IANS): Scrambled, poached or boiled, eggs are a popular breakfast food the world over but new research warns that excess egg consumption can increase your risk of diabetes.
The study fou
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 13 (IANS): One in every four individuals under 25 years of age has shown diabetic levels, a condition usually seen in the age group 40-50 years according to the Indian Council of Medical Res
LONDON, NOVEMBER 10 (IANS): A new research adds to the growing body of evidence that severe Covid-19 infection appears rare in newborn babies.
The study, published in the journal The Lancet Child and Adolesc
(Reuters): Pfizer Inc's <PFE.N> experimental COVID-19 vaccine is more than 90% effective based on initial trial results, the drugmaker said on Monday, a major victory in the war against a virus t
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Pfizer Inc said on Monday its experimental COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective, a major victory in the fight against a pandemic that has killed more than a million people, battered the
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 9 (IANS): Lung cancer is often stigmatised as 'smokers disease' but in today's time, non-smokers cannot escape the risk of having lung cancer as well.
Lung cancer is one of th
Kolkata, November 8 (IANS): Indian researchers have revealed that after three months of treatment with oral methotrexate, adults with primary knee osteoarthritis (OA) with inflammation had significant improveme
London, November 6 (Reuters): Painkiller aspirin will be evaluated as a possible treatment for COVID-19 in one of Britain's biggest trials, which will assess whether it might reduce the risk of blood clots
LONDON, NOVEMBER 5 (IANS): New research adds to the growing body of evidence that delirium, a state of acute mental confusion, accompanied by a fever could be an early symptom of Covid-19.
Delirium is an abr
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 4 (IANS): With the constant dip in mercury and air quality aggravating from moderate to poor to very poor category in the national capital and its surrounding areas, the hospitals in Delhi a
LONDON, NOVEMBER 4 (IANS): In a significant development, scientists have identified a synthetic mini-antibody that turned out to be particularly effective in blocking the new coronavirus from entering human cel
LONDON, November 4 (Reuters): The University of Oxford hopes to present late-stage trial results on its COVID-19 vaccine candidate this year, raising hopes that Britain could start to roll out a successful
South African pharmaceutical company Aspen Pharmacare said it has entered into an agreement with 'Johnson & Johnson' (J&J) for the technical transfer and proposed commercial manufacturing of the
GENEVA, NOVEMBER 3 (IANS): Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) have highlighted the influenza risk for children and pregnant women during the Covid-19 pandemic, calling for strong surveillance and
Moscow, November 1 (IANS): SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19, may not only damage key red blood cells, but also prevent formation of new ones, says a new study.
In the study, published in the jo
New Delhi, October 31 (IANS): In view of the winter season and Covid-19 pandemic, health experts on Saturday said that taking natural antioxidants may help keep the heart healthy along with other health benefit