Online food products ‘too sweet’
While sweet taste was mentioned in 11 per cent of product reviews, saltiness was rarely mentioned
Sunscreen wouldn’t have saved Bob Marley from melanoma, and it won’t help other dark-skinned people
Melanoma is a potentially deadly form of skin cancer linked to overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun
Snakebite: a public health problem you don’t hear of
Call to end neglected tropical diseases brings this major public health problem into focus
Fruit bats source of Nipah virus, confirm ICMR scientists
Scientists from the Indian Council of Medicl Research reportedly confirmed the source of Nipah virus to be fruit bats
Chikungunya cases increase by 70% since 2013
Haryana saw an almost 100% spike in chikungunya cases from 2013 to 2017, according to the National Health Profile 2017
Smoke from world’s worsening wildfires is killing more than 33,000 people every year
Japan accounted for the highest number of annual deaths, at 7,000, in its 47 cities; the study was carried out in 749 cities across 43 …
Nigeria’s missing virus hunters: University decline robs country of virologists
Nigeria should create an enabling environment for scientists to function effectively and maximally
Rural South Africa has a high burden of undiagnosed non-communicable diseases: Study
A health-screening programme in KwaZulu-Natal showed that most seniors, especially women were living with a chronic health condition
Not even a glimmer of hope for health worldwide, warns report
Epidemic of chronic diseases, social inequalities and COVID-19 will worsen the future of global health
Changing animal behaviour in different terrain can impact spread of diseases: Study
Pathogens like novel tuberculosis could exploit forms of communication among banded mongooses to spread
JNU to establish new centre for research in natural products
The main objective of the centre is to screen natural products to identify potential candidates for further optimisation and preclinical and …
Cataract blindness hits women more than men in India
Women are 69% more likely to develop cataract — clouding of the normally clear lens of the eye — than men
New study may help address drug resistant pneumococcal diseases
Indian researchers have identified three drug target sites in the genome of Streptococcus pneumoniae, paving the way for developing …
Experts call for action against spread of mycetoma
At the sixth international conference in Sudan they said it’s essential to set goals and milestones to trigger collaborative research on …
For the first time, Delhi govt plans to start bird hospitals
The proposal is part of the Animal Health and Welfare Policy 2018, recently discussed in a government meeting
After floods, rats plague the people of Kerala
An epidemic of ‘rat fever’ or leptospirosis has struck the state, claiming 9 lives
Temperature increase could accelerate rise in antibiotic resistance
Temperature and population density could facilitate transmission and thus increase in antibiotic resistance, say scientists
One in every 10 asthma patients in the world is in India
90 per cent of childhood asthma and 50 per cent of adult asthma is caused due to environmental allergens
Plague bacteria may be hiding in common soil or water microbes, waiting to emerge
Where do plague bacteria go between outbreaks? New research demonstrates that they can survive and replicate inside amoebae that are widely …
SARS-CoV-2 changes classic feature of virus becoming endemic: Shahid Jameel
Shahid Jameel, former head of the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium, speaks to DTE about how a virus mutates, the trajectory of COVID-19,…
Exercise linked to higher pain tolerance: Study
People who regularly exercised had a higher pain tolerance compared with those who hardly exercised
Global warming: Africa, Asia most at risk of zoonotic spillovers
There can be 15,000 instances of viruses jumping from one species to another over the next 50 years
Mammals in wildlife trade host 75% of known zoonotic viruses
The researchers surveyed the association of 226 viruses responsible for zoonotic diseases with more than 800 mammal species
World not on track to meet 2020 milestone for malaria control: WHO
Currently, less than one per cent of the global funds for health R&D investment are allocated to develop tools to fight malaria
India has fourth highest number of measles cases in the world: WHO
The country’s disease incidence rate per million is 29.68, the lowest in the top 10 countries