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In the last few decades, urban centres that used to provide a lot of scope and advantage for children to grow and flourish physically, when compared to their counterparts in rural areas, has gone down steadily since 1990

Dr SubbaRao has been working in the areas of health, nutrition and food safety communication with special emphasis on social, behavioral and cultural aspects of communicative processes

ICMR said that the results of its study into heart attacks in young individuals and a possible link between heart attacks and Covid-19 vaccines and its results will be announced soon

Idea is to offer multidisciplinary care to patients that consist of modern medicine and traditional Indian medicine

The move comes following a letter from the ICMR that suggested for inclusion of sickle cell disorder in the curricula of both school and higher educational institutions

Cases of influenza due to H3N2 in India started rising in December, 2022 and continues across many States even in March

The rise of Influenza A (H1N1) cases in Telangana has also coincided with a large cross-section of individuals reporting to nursing homes and clinics with symptoms of fever, sore throat, body aches

Front-of-the-pack warning labels have the potential to discourage individuals from making unhealthy choices

Regenerative medicine, which involves the technology of using human stem cells to repair and regenerate damaged tissue or cartilage between two joints, has become a booming industry and a major area of research worldwide in the last few years.

The Indian Council of Medical Research has issued guidelines warning against the use of antibiotics for conditions such as low-grade fever and viral bronchitis

The Committee is of the view that an accurate mortality database in the hospital information system will improve cancer registry, follow up and outcome data.

Diabetes can be reversed just by fixing your diet, limiting the intake of carbs and increase in protein and healthy fat intake can help both reverse diabetes as well as prevent its progression, revealed a study by ICMR.

New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has received 31 bids from manufacturers showing interest in developing vaccine against the monkeypox virus after the medical body floated the Expression of Interest (EOI) for the development of vaccine and diagnostic kits, a source said on Saturday. According to the source, of the total 31 […]

New Delhi: As schools across the country reopened after the summer vacation, there are concerns among parents about their children getting infected with COVID-19 as a surge in cases was witnessed in parts of India. However, an Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) scientist said that there are very low chances of COVID infection among […]

New Delhi: The COVID-19 cases in India have crossed the 4,000-mark for the second time in the past four days on Sunday, as the country logged 4,270 fresh infections in the past 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry. On Friday, after nearly three months, the daily tally of COVID-19 cases in India had […]

New Delhi: Amid Monkeypox cases being reported from some countries, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has directed the National Centre for Disease Control and the ICMR to keep a close watch on the situation, official sources said Friday. The Union health ministry has also directed airport and port health officers to be vigilant, they said. […]

Hyderabad: The BA2 variant of the SARS-CoV-2, which is behind the recent surge of Covid infections in China, South Korea, Europe and US, has continued to remain the dominant strain in Telangana and in the country, based on the data from Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Consortium (INSACOG). The genome sequencing of Covid samples by INSACOG, which […]

New Delhi: India saw a single day rise of 1,088 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,30,38,016, while the active cases dipped to 10,870, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The death toll climbed to 5,21,736 with 26 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am […]

New Delhi: Pune-based Gennova Biopharmaceuticals has submitted the phase-II and phase-III trials data of India’s first mRNA COVID vaccine to the regulator Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) on Friday, said sources. The company has also developed an Omicron-specific vaccine which will be tested on humans for efficacy and immunogenicity. Earlier the DG, Indian Council […]

New Delhi: The ICMR’s National Task Force for Covid-19 has decided against including antiviral drug Molnupiravir in the Clinical Management Protocol for Covid as of now, official sources said on Tuesday. The experts of the task force cited safety concerns and argued that Molnupiravir was not of much benefit in Covid treatment to arrive at […]