Health

New Delhi: Facebook-owned WhatsApp is rolling out a new “View Once” mode for Android beta testers that wipes photos and videos as soon as you view and dismiss them. The company`s top executives Mark Zuckerberg and Will Cathcart confirmed to WABetaInfo that this feature was coming on WhatsApp very soon. …

New Delhi: Each year National Doctors Day is celebrated on July 1 in India. This day is marked to acknowledge and celebrate the efforts that medical professionals put for the health, wellbeing and safety of other people. The day celebrates the incessant work put in by medical professionals throughout their …

This is a reader-friendly overview of Thiamin. For more details, see our health professional fact sheet on Thiamin. What is thiamin and what does it do? Thiamin (also called vitamin B1) helps turn the food you eat into the energy you need. Thiamin is important for the growth, development, and …

Nagapattinam: The ongoing construction work to establish a new medical college at Orathur in Nagapattinam district would be completed before this year-end, District Collector Arun Thamburaj said on Sunday. Speaking to reporters after reviewing the progress of the work, the Collector said the college was being set up at a …

New Delhi: Dysfunction of glucose metabolism resulting in hyperglycaemia, a high blood sugar level, has been found in 14.4 per cent of patients who survived coronavirus, according to a global study published in the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Journal. With India’s total caseload rose to 3,02,33,183 and achieving the third-highest …

The pace of vaccination of the 60-plus population has become sluggish in the past few weeks after an initial high, with healthcare experts attributing it to mobility issues and misinformation and unsubstantiated apprehensions about the jabs. According to Health Ministry data, 2.29 crore elderly people have been fully vaccinated so …

Researchers have developed a non-invasive and low-cost method that can accurately and rapidly detect Covid-19 using samples taken from the screens of smartphones. The researchers from University College London (UCL) in the UK analysed swabs from mobile screens rather than directly from people using the method known as Phone Screen …

Mankind Pharma on Thursday said it has inked a pact with BDR Pharmaceuticals for distributing Baricitinib, a drug that is used in COVID treatment. The product, which would be sold under the BARIKIND trademark, has received restricted emergency use approval for use in combination with remdesivis in the treatment of …

New Delhi: The new delta variant of Coronavirus could account for as much as 90 per cent of the new cases registered in European Union (EU) in the coming months. The assumption was shared by bloc’s disease control agency on Wednesday.  “The Delta variant is more transmissible than other circulating …

New Delhi: As the country emerges from the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the experts have warned the ‘Delta plus’ variant of Covid-19 may trigger a third wave in the country, particularly Maharashtra that has so far reported 21 cases of this highly infectious variant. The major cause of …