Mumbai, June 23 (IANS) Raising hopes of new and less painful treatment for burn injuries, a 26-year-old patient with Grade 2 burn injuries was successfully treated using stem cell therapy at a city-based hospital, doctors…
New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) India’s mapping and survey organisation Survey of India (SoI) on Thursday said that Google Maps is “not authenticated” and “un-approved” by the government, and hence not fit for high-end applications….
Faridabad, June 23 (IANS) Life of a 41-year-old woman has been saved after successful removal of a cyst weighing 200gm from her brain at a city hospital here, doctors said on Thursday. According to the…
New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) Uttarakhand and Haryana have become the fourth and fifth Open Defecation Free (ODF) states of India under the Swachh Bharat Mission, said an official statement on Thursday. The two states…
Guwahati, June 22 (IANS) A senior Assam-based academician, whose wife died due to medical negligence at a Delhi-based hospital in 2015, on Thursday urged the Assam Medical Council to cancel the medical licence of the…
Kolkata, June 22 (IANS) Former Calcutta High Court Justice C.S. Karnan was admitted to city-based SSKM Medical College and Hospital on Thursday after he complained of chest pain, a hospital official said. The retired judge…
New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) In a bid to bring together the Indian scientists abroad and India-based researchers for conducting joint researches in India, the Department of Science and Technology (DST) on Thursday launched a…
New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) The FSSAI on Thursday said presence of doping substances in food supplements posed a major challenge and efforts were needed to save the reputation of the supplements industry. Pointing out…
New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) The Union Cabinet on Thursday gave approval to the signing of an MoU for cooperation between India and Sri Lanka in traditional systems of medicine. The Memorandum of Understanding between…
Chandigarh, June 22 (IANS) Haryana has become the fourth state in the country where the rural areas have been declared Open Defecation-Free (ODF), a minister said here on Thursday. The only other states to have…
Chandigarh, June 22 (IANS) Former Chief Minister Parkash Sigh Badal on Thursday dubbed as “shocking” the unsavoury happenings in the Punjab assembly on Thursday. Two Aam Aadmi Party legislators, including a woman lawmaker, were injured…
Indore, June 22 (IANS) Five patients died on Thursday at the Maharaja Yashwant Rao Hospital here in Madhya Pradesh, which informed sources attributed to obstruction in oxygen supply there. However, authorities denied it. Five patients…
New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said all Delhi slums and colonies will be made free of open defecation by March 31 next year. “The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is…
New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday took the BJP to task over the Delhi High Court’s criticism of the three municipal corporations a day earlier over improper garbage disposal in…
London, June 22 (IANS) Staying busy in your bedroom even after age 50 could be good for your brain as researchers have found that older adults who have sex more frequently do better in brain…
London, June 22 (IANS) Putting paid to the idea that married couples have better physical health because of increased social support, a new study has found that marriage actually makes men fatter, and the early…
Canberra, June 22 (IANS) Carbon neutral cars have moved a step closer to reality after Australian scientists developed a new way to successfully use solar energy to turn naturally-occurring carbon dioxide (CO2) into a “clean”…
New York, June 22 (IANS) In what could confirm a century-old suspicion, researchers have found the first direct evidence that autoimmunity — in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues — plays a…
London, June 22 (IANS) Breastfeeding may reduce a mother’s heart attack and stroke risk later in life, according to new research. The study, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, showed that women…
New York, June 22 (IANS) Fathers’ involvement in caregiving is linked to decreased likelihood that children would develop childhood obesity, says a study. The researchers found that fathers’ participation in physical child care activities like…