Kinshasa, Sep 17 (IANS) The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is showing a shifting pattern, with transmission easing in the long-time epicentre of Ituri but rising rapidly in North Kivu, where treatment capacity is nearing...
Geneva, Sep 17 (IANS) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), on Thursday extended wishes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 76th birthday. “Happy birthday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi. I wish you many happy returns. Thank...
Geneva, Sep 17 (IANS) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), on Thursday extended wishes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 76th birthday. “Happy birthday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi. I wish you many happy returns. Thank...
Kalaburagi (Karnataka), Sep 17 (IANS) The Karnataka government will launch a special two-year campaign to combat anaemia in the Kalyan Karnataka region, with a focus on screening, prevention and treatment, particularly among pregnant women, adolescents and lactating mothers, Chief Minister...
Kinshasa, Sep 16 (IANS) The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains "uncontrolled" despite an overall decline in cases and deaths, as the epidemic follows increasingly different trajectories across affected parts of the country, the World...
New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) The Centre and the National Medical Commission (NMC) have told the Delhi High Court that a non-heterosexual partner can be permitted to act as a medical representative of a patient in case of incapacity, saying...
New Delhi, Sep 15 (IANS) India on Tuesday dispatched 10 tonnes of Antiretroviral medicines to Botswana to support their public health system for HIV-AIDS treatment, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar said highlighting New Delhi's commitment to strengthen health cooperation...
Kinshasa, Sep 15 (IANS) More than 7,200 confirmed Ebola cases have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as sustained transmission continues in several provinces despite an overall downward trend of the epidemic, according to governmental data...
New Delhi, Sep 15 (IANS) Bangladesh is grappling with a severe measles outbreak that has killed over 1,000 people since mid‑March, exposing immunity gaps after years of declining routine vaccination coverage and disruptions to immunisation services, a new report has...
Kohima, Sep 14 (IANS) In the wake of 10 people, including three members of a family, dying in "dry state" Nagaland’s Tuensang, with spurious liquor consumption suspected as the cause in nine of the cases, the state Excise and Prohibition...
Bengaluru, Sep 14 (IANS) The Karnataka Special Investigation Team (SIT), questioning fake pharmaceuticals racket key accused Veeresh Kumar Jain, has found that he allegedly ran the network that supplied counterfeit tablets, syrups, and other medicines to medical shops and private...
New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) As millions of children in Pakistan remain nutritionally vulnerable despite years of interventions, malnutrition can no longer be treated as an occasional emergency in the country, according to a new report.Pakistan’s ‘National Nutrition Survey 2018’...