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Geneva: Marking World Malaria Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) is issuing a call for increased implementation of new and existing interventions to save lives from malaria.
Worries about environmental issues are consistently leading to lost sleep for many Americans, a recent survey has revealed.
New York: The COVID-19 pandemic caused millions of children to miss out on routine vaccines and countries must act now to restore essential immunization coverage to a least 2019 levels, UN health agency WHO said on Monday, marking the start of World Immunization Week.
Sheopur: An approximately six-year-old male cheetah, which was named ‘Uday’, died at Kuno National Park on Sunday, making it the second such fatality over the recent past.
High consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) was associated with an elevated risk of premature death and incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) among people with type 2 diabetes, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Drinking beverages like coffee, tea, low-fat cow’s milk, and plain water was associated with lower risk of dying prematurely.
Mumbai/IBNS/UNI: Maharashtra recorded 850 fresh cases of Covid-19 and four more virus-related deaths from across the state in the last 24 hours, a health bulletin said on Sunday
Guwahati/IBNS: Taking a step further in wildlife preservation in Assam, biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak has installed a 4 km stretch of community-operated solar fence to mitigate human-elephant conflict (HEC) at Bordol village in Goalpara district with support from US Fish and Wildlife Service.
Sriharikota/UNI: In a dedicated commercial mission, ISRO's workhorse launch vehicle PSLV-C55 on Saturday successfully launched two Singapore satellites in the intended orbit from the SHAR Range, here.
Guwahati: A group of Indian scientists has fabricated monolayers of pure myelin basic protein (MBP), a major protein component of the myelin sheath, which is a protective membrane that wraps around the axon of nerve cells and acts as a model protein in studying diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS), Ministry of Science & Technology said on Friday.
According to the latest census, 3,167 tigers have been recorded in India. Tiger population in India is close to saturation, note experts, prompting discussions on sustainable development amid rising human-animal conflict. Mongabay India writer Saurabh Katkurwar reports
New Delhi/UNI: India reported 11,692 fresh cases of Covid -19 during the last 24 hours as per the latest update by the Ministry of health and Family Welfare on Friday.
Mumbai/UNI: During the past 24 hours, 1,113 fresh cases of Covid-19 and three virus related deaths were reported across in the state , according to a health bulletin on Friday.
Billionaire Elon Musk's iconic rocket Starship, the largest and most powerful ever built and designed to send astronauts to the Moon, the Mars and beyond, exploded on Thursday during the spacecraft's first test flight.
Canberra: The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has become the first jurisdiction in the country to offer free abortions.
Mumbai/UNI: Maharashtra has reported 1,100 new Covid-19 cases and four deaths in the last 24 hours, officials said here on Thursday.
New Delhi/UNI: India has recorded a slight jump in fresh Covid-19 cases with 12,591 in the last 24 hours, as per the Health Ministry on Thursday.
New Delhi/UNI: India recorded a slight jump in fresh Covid-19 cases with 10,542 new infections registered during the last 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry on Wednesday.
Guwahati/IBNS: The Judges of Gauhati High Court on Tuesday underlined the urgent need to create a massive awareness drive by all stakeholders targeting the common people especially students to bust the myth that wildlife parts are beneficial to human beings in many ways, a belief born out of superstition.
Jammu/UNI: A spell of rain brought some respite from soaring temperature on Tuesday morning.
New Delhi/UNI: India has recorded a further slight decline in fresh Covid-19 cases with 7,633 in the last 24 hours as per the Health Ministry on Tuesday.
New Delhi/UNI: India reported 9,111 fresh cases of Covid-19 during the last 24 hours as per the latest update by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday.
Mumbai/IBNS: Maharashtra has recorded a massive 660 new Covid-19 cases and two deaths in the last 24 hours, a health bulletin said here on Sunday.
New Delhi/UNI: India has recorded 10,753 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the active caseload to 53,720 according to the Union Health Ministry on Saturday.
Guwahati, April 14 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the first AIIMS in the Northeast region of India, located in Guwahati, Assam.
Mumbai/UNI: During the past 24 hours 1,086 fresh positive of Covid-19 cases and a single death related virus was reported across in the state, according to a health bulletin.
The University of Oxford-developed and Serum Institute of India PvT Ltd (SIIPL)- manufactured and scaled up R21/Matrix-MTM malaria vaccine, leveraging Novavax’s adjuvant technology, has been licensed for use in Ghana by the country’s Food and Drugs Authority
New York: Fully financing the HIV response in Africa will produce substantial health, social and economic gains for the continent, a new report backed by the UN agency devoted to ending AIDS (UNAIDS) has revealed.
Tehran: At least three people were killed in flash floods in western Iran over the past 24 hours, Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) reported.
Airfinity’s new risk modelling, that is being presented at the Rhodes Summit in London Friday the 14th, indicates there’s a 27.5 pct chance that a pandemic as deadly as COVID-19 could take place in the next ten years.
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