Nairobi, Sep 18 (IANS) Twelve dead babies have been found stuffed in boxes and plastic bags in a Kenyan hospital, prompting an investigation on the orders of Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko. Sonko said he went…
London, Sep 18 (IANS) Usage of muscle relaxants — a necessary part of anaesthesia during certain major operations — may increase the risk of respiratory complications after surgery, a new study has found. The findings…
Washington, Sep 18 (IANS) NASA’s newest planet hunter telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has now shared the first science image that it captured as part of its initial round of data collection. Part…
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) Death of children below the age of five continues to steadily reduce in India, declining from nearly 22 per cent in 2012 to 18 per cent in 2017, which is…
New York, Sep 17 (IANS) Most parents believe that an excessive late night use of gadgets has significantly hampered the sleep patterns of their teenaged children, leading to poor academic performance, researchers warn. According to…
New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday sought a response from Centre on a plea for a ban on 85 pesticides since these were banned in other countries but were allowed in…
New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) The Supreme court on Monday lifted a ban on the manufacture and sale of Piramal’s painkiller Saridon and two other drugs – Piriton and Dart – for now. These drugs…
Toronto, Sep 17 (IANS) Witnessing violence in high school may lead to emotional distress among children and affect their academic performance later, suggests a new research. The findings, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and…
Harare, Sep 17 (IANS) Zimbabwe’s ongoing cholera outbreak has killed 30 people and has spread to the country’s second-largest city Bulawayo, according to figures given by Health Minister Obadiah Moyo. Moyo said two people died…
New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) Following an alert from PETA India, the Central government on Monday directed the Rajasthan government to take preventive measures against the spread of tuberculosis from captive elephants in the state….
Toronto, Sep 17 (IANS) Early life exposure to certain disinfectants used at home could be making children overweight by altering the composition of their gut bacteria, suggests new research. Babies living in households that used…
Mumbai, Sep 17 (IANS) Two years after the shut down of the Kakrapur Atomic Power Station (KAPS-1&2) due to a leak at Surat in south Gujarat, it’s Unit 2 attained ‘criticality’ early on Monday after…
Canberra, Sep 17 (IANS) Australia’s largest clinical trial has concluded that taking a daily dose of aspirin does not reduce the chance of death, disability or cardiovascular disease, the results of a five-year study revealed…
Panaji, Sep 16 (IANS) The ruling MLAs in Goa on Sunday continued to root for Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, insisting that the Chief Minister’s post is not up for grabs, and claimed the ailing leader…
By Venkatachari Jagannathan Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), Sep 16 (IANS) India on Sunday night successfully put into orbit two British earth observation satellites, NovaSAR and S1-4, in copy book style. Two satellites aboard the Indian rocket…
Panaji, Sep 16 (IANS) The BJP central leadership’s attempts to form a consensus between party MLAs and alliance partners in Goa over alternate leadership due to Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s illness remained inconclusive on Sunday….
London, Sep 16 (IANS) Horror stories of childbirth shared by new mothers on online forums and social media platforms like Facebook could be driving the rise in tokophobia — a pathological terror of pregnancy and…
Wellington, Sep 16 (IANS) Researchers have decoded a genetic variant that enables new understanding of why some people are at risk of gout, a painful and debilitating arthritic disease. Gout is caused by persistently elevated…
Washington, Sep 16 (IANS) Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are building a device that uses machine learning, and is similar to a Wi-Fi router, to tract breathing, heart rate, sleep, gait, just…
By Jaideep Sarin New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) What is touted as the world’s largest healthcare scheme – Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) – will benefit over 500 million (50 crore) people which…