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The Kerala health department has increased surveillance at all the five airports in the state from Sunday onwards. Special facilities have been set up in Kannur airport for testing those who arrive from foreign countries.

India on Sunday reached the historic milestone of 200 crore mark in Covid-19 vaccination. The milestone has been achieved after 18 months when the nation began the mass vaccination on January 16, 2021.

If you are over 40 and have no underlying health conditions a small glass of red wine, or a can or bottle of beer, or a shot of whiskey or other spirits may help reduce risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, and diabetes, according to a new analysis published in The Lancet.

The faulty design of buildings and ventilation systems can adversely affect natural ventilation depriving occupants of natural light and oxygen which may increase the chances of airborne infections like COVID-19, tuberculosis, measles, claimed a plea moved before the National Green Tribunal.

According to the Defence Ministry, a young woman was brought to the Command Hospital (Southern Command) in Pune in the last stages of her life after an unfortunate event. On admission, the vital brain signs of life were not found in her.

Surveillance and rapid identification of new cases is critical for outbreak containment, the guidelines said, adding that during human monkeypox outbreaks, close contact with infected persons is the most significant risk factor for monkeypox virus infection.

Ebola Virus Disease and other viral hemorrhagic fevers constitute nearly 70 per cent of these outbreaks, with dengue fever, anthrax, plague, monkeypox and a range of other diseases making up the remaining 30 per cent.

Although women represent 67 per cent of workers in the healthcare sector globally, they are paid 24 per cent less than their male counterparts, according to the first-ever global sectoral gender pay gap report co-developed by the International Labour Organisation and the World Health Organisation.

"I made it my mission to develop a new surgical robotic system that would offer better and more advanced technology features, applicable in most specialties including cardiac surgery," said Sudhir P. Srivastava, founder of SS Innovations that made the robot.

Every beauty expert and skincare blogger would advise you to add Vitamin C to your skincare routine. So, we all turn to sources of Vitamin C and the most easily and readily available is lemon. You might come across various DIYs which involve lemon juice, lemon zest, etc.

Scientists have developed a design of a new class of synthetic peptides that can not only block the entry of SARS-CoV-2 virus entry into cells but also clump the virions (virus particles) together, reducing their ability to infect.

According to Alex Reyentovich, medical director of heart transplantation at NYU Langone, these latest advances in xenotransplantation move the field closer to realising a new supply of organs for those facing life-threatening disease.

The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) on Tuesday granted market authorisation to India's first Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus vaccine (qHPV) against cervical cancer.

The Indian council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Monday set up a national registry of multiple sclerosis (MS) - Indian Multiple Sclerosis and Allied Demyelinating Disorders Registry and Research Network (IMSRN).

At least eight people died of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in Assam in the past nine days while 82 were infected, prompting the Health Department to seek authorities to set up District Rapid Response Teams (DRRT) to keep a close watch on the situation.

In its latest update issued on Monday, the WHO said since January 1, and as of June 22, there have been 3,413 laboratory confirmed cases and one death reported to WHO from 50 countries and territories in five WHO regions.

India's apex drugs regulator, the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), on Tuesday approved Pune-based Serum Institute's Covid vaccine Covovax for children aged 7 to 11 years, as per a source.

In a statement, the health agency provided an update on the confirmed cases, saying two were reported from British Columbia, four from Alberta, 45 from Ontario and 184 from Quebec, reports Xinhua news agency.

However, DGCI will review the recommendation before nodding for final approval. The expert panel in its last meeting in April had sought more information from Serum Institute over the application, as per the source.

According to Jennifer Dungan, Associate Professor at University of Florida's College of Nursing, many of the current symptom profiles and lab tests for heart disease do not accurately reflect known differences in women's heart disease.

India has been witnessing a spike in daily Covid cases for the past few days. After a decline on Tuesday, India again reported a rise on Wednesday with 12,249 fresh Covid infections.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is likely to declare monkeypox, which has so far affected 2,821 people in both endemic and non-endemic countries, a global health emergency, according to media reports.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a gamechanger in ophthalmology. Using computer-algorithms, it helps in analysing medical data to detect diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and others in the early stages.

Heart failure patients who are unvaccinated against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, are three times more likely to die if infected with the virus compared to fully boosted heart failure patients, according to a new research.

An Indian origin patient was among those who had a "miracle" cure using a cancer medication that is being tried out by a research centre here achieving an unprecedented healing rate when all 14 patients in the trial had their cancers disappear.