The family from a nearby village arrived at the small hospital here vomiting and with uncontrollable diarrhea, at first glance maybe a typical case of consuming bad food or water.
Mumbai: One in every five Indian adults living in urban cities suffers not only from hypertension but also diabetes. In Maharashtra, one
in three persons is struck by the twin epidemic.
A year after cholera broke out in the aftermath of the January 2010 Haiti earthquake, the epidemic has disappeared from the headlines, but it continues to wreak a deadly toll. Mortality rates remain high in some areas, but donor funding for front-line response teams is drying up, even as a newly approved vaccine offers a glimmer of hope.
AHMEDABAD: The attack of dengue and malaria in the city may be more severe than what is reflected by the figures given out by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC).
KOCHI: The wheels of bureaucracy has finally creaked to tackle the issue of replacing damaged pipelines in West Kochi, with the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) proposing a project estimated at Rs 2 crores for replacing old and damaged underground water pipelines in the area.
The encephalitis-related deaths have acquired an alarming rate here. Between Wednesday and Thursday, a death was reported every two hours at the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College.
Japanese encephalitis (JE) has claimed the lives of eight more children in the last five days in Bihar's Gaya district, taking the death toll in the epidemic to 62, a health official said Thursday.
The two children died in the last 24 hours and six in the last five days at Anugrah Narayan Medical College and Hospital (ANMCH), about 100 km from here, hospital superintendent Sitaram Prasad said.
An ambitious, large-scale HIV/AIDS public health programme prevented an estimated 100,000 new infections in parts of the country hit hardest by the AIDS epidemic, indicating that HIV prevention pro
