Health
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Hyderabad infertility specialist shares tips on breastfeeding for IVF mothers
Hyderabad: As the World Breastfeeding Week draws to an end, a city-based fertility specialist on Wednesday, August, 7 shared tips on breastfeeding for IVF mothers. Addressing a query on the impact of…
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48 students ill in 4th food poisoning case at Telangana govt schools this week
Hyderabad: Several boy students studying in the Telangana minority welfare residential educational institution at Nagasala in Jadcherla of Mahabubnagar district suffered stomach pain and vomiting due to suspected food poisoning on Wednesday,…
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Rising obesity in kids can lead to poor health later: Experts
New Delhi: Childhood obesity is one of the leading and steadily increasing health concerns, experts said on Sunday. With a large segment of the population falling in the younger age group, childhood…
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Hyderabad: With limited testing for Norovirus, no cases says top health official
Hyderabad: With no Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) testing kits available to detect any cases, Dr Anil Kumar, Professor General, Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Tropical Diseases, said that there are…
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Hyderabad: GHMC dismantles illegal sheds on Moosarambagh-Dilsukhnagar road
Hyderabad: GHMC officials from the Malakpet circle under Charminar zone dismantled sheds and stalls that were illegally erected by street vendors and absentee street vendors on the service road from Moosarambagh to…
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Telangana witnesses rise in cervical cancer deaths
Hyderabad: Telangana recorded a concerning rise in cervical cancer cases, with the mortality rate increasing from 948 in 2014 to 1,202 in 2023, according to recent data presented during the Assembly’s budget…
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Hyderabad-based pharma company gets WHO PQ status for oral polio vaccine
Hyderabad: Biological E. Limited (BE), a Hyderabad-based vaccine and pharmaceutical company, on Tuesday announced that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has granted Pre-qualification (PQ) status to their Novel Oral Polio Vaccine type…
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17-year-old resident of Medak dies of dengue in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: With rising dengue cases, a 17-year-old youngster lost his life fighting the disease at a private hospital here on Monday, July 29. Nikhil, a resident of Suraram village in Chinna Shankarampet…
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Obesity surges in Telangana; experts highlight bio-psycho-social factors
Hyderabad: In a startling revelation, the Center’s Economic Survey 2024, tabled at Parliament on Monday, July 22, identified Telangana as one of the states with a troubling trend of growing obesity. Recent…
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Telangana: Officials to conduct door-to-door survey on seasonal illnesses
Hyderabad: To keep a check on the seasonal fevers affecting the population, the Telangana government has taken the decision to conduct a door-to-door survey of all households in the state. Health minister…
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Hyderabad: OGH surgeons perform liver transplantation on toddler
Hyderabad: Surgeons at the Osmania General Hospital (OGH) have successfully performed a liver transplantation procedure on a three-year-old boy on July 3 and discharged him on Tuesday. Aditya, a resident of Kondavanamala…
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UNICEF, WHO call for step-up in child vaccinations stalled after Covid pandemic
United Nations: Two UN agencies have called for a catch-up in child immunisation, warning global vaccinations of children stalled last year, leaving 2.7 million unvaccinated or with insufficient inoculations. The latest World…
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Junk food is promoted online to appeal to kids & target young men: Study
Melbourne: The Australian government has been investigating whether we should ban unhealthy food advertising online, and how it could work. In the United Kingdom, a ban on unhealthy food and drink advertising…
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Norovirus cases being reported in Old City of Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Many cases of the Norovirus are being reported in the Old City of Hyderabad. The virus, which is the most common cause of gastroenteritis, has been causing “complicated gastroenteritis with acute…
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What’s ‘cancer cachexia’ syndrome, a disease behind most patients’ death?
New Delhi: When tumours in cancer patients elevate levels of an immune system molecule called Interleukin-6 (IL-6), it can cause severe brain dysfunction, which leads to a lethal wasting disease called ‘cachexia’…
