Disease

In yet another superstition-based practice to cure disease, a three-month-old baby girl was branded with hot iron to cure the stomach ailments at Muktapur village in Angul district. The infant was admitted to the Pallahada Sub-divisional…

In a shocking incident, 18 people died in the villages surrounded by waters of the Indravati water reservoir project in Kalahandi district due to the spread of an unknown disease. As many as 22 villages under the two gram panchayats are…

Mexico City, Feb 4: Mexico has confirmed 37 cases of Zika virus infection in seven of the country's 32 states, the media reported on Thursday. Thirty-four people were infected locally, while three were infected abroad, Health Minister…

Taipei, Dec 1: The number of deaths from dengue fever in Taiwan has risen to 184 since May this year, with 10 newly confirmed fatalities, the Central Epidemic Command Centre (CECC) said on Tuesday. All 10 new fatalities were from…

Juba, Nov 10: South Sudan has declared itself to be free of cholera which had been spreading in the new-born state since last June, the media reported on Tuesday. "There is no cholera in South Sudan anymore. The disease has completely been…

Australian researchers have come up with a unique way of preventing the spread of the dengue virus, a mosquito-borne disease that currently has no approved vaccine, according to a media report on Wednesday. The University of…

In a first, researchers have designed a fully implantable micropacemaker for use in a foetus with complete heart block. Reported in the journal Heart Rhythm, the micropacemaker has been designated a Humanitarian Use Device by the US Food…

Swine flu - influenza A (H1N1) pandemic 2009 virus - that has killed over 1,500 people and left more than 27,000 people infected in India has acquired mutations that make it more dangerous than previously circulating strains of H1N1…