Climate change is expected to have large impacts on health at low latitudes where droughts and malnutrition, diarrhea, and malaria are projected to increase. The main objective of this study was to indicate a method to assess a range of plausible health impacts of climate change while handling uncertainties in a unambiguous manner.
DRUG firm Glenmark Pharmaceuticals on Monday said it has achieved positive results in human trials for its new drug molecule Crofelemer, which is aimed at treating diarrhoea in adults.
In a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the firm said resolution of diarrhoea was significantly higher in human subjects, who were given Crofelemer compared to those who were not in a multi-centre tri
Contaminated and polluted water kills more than 2.2 million people per year which experts point out is more than the number of people killed from all forms of violence, including wars. The situation is especially dangerous in India where 80 per cent of all urban water is being discharged daily into the country’s rivers making most water bodies unfit for human use.
BHUBANESWAR: After Rayagada district, diarrhoea has struck Cuttack. At least 53 inhabitants of a village under Narasinghpur block are found suffering from the disease in the last five days prompting Health Department to send a medical team to keep a watch on the situation.
All cases came from Baselihata village under Kanpur PHC where diarrhoea outbreak was first reported on January 26.
AN INDIAN healthcare joint venture between drugmaker Merck & Co and UK-based charitable entity Wellcome Trust plans to develop heat stable oral rotavirus vaccine to prevent diarrhoea in babies in developing countries.
Wednesday was an unmemorable day for the family of Mayank Goyel, a resident of Goregaon (West), when all of them suffered chronic vomiting and infective diarrhoea, while his youngest daughter Sandhya tested positive for hepatitis E.
But doctors say the 12-year-old is not the only one battling the infectious disease in the city.
Hepatitis E is among the rarest strain of the virus, which causes
