Health

Bengal, among all states, has tested the fewest number of people for the coronavirus but has the second-highest positivity rate after Delhi, possibly because its screening process is focused on high-r...

Ramji Mahto had set out for home and had covered around two-thirds of the distance when he collapsed on the road.Taken to a hospital, the 45-year-old migrant from Begusarai, Bihar, was declared dead o...

Several people in the city allegedly continued to defy regulations on Friday, the third day of the second phase of the lockdown.A police source said scores of people had gathered at the Uzan Bazar fis...

The Indian Railways planned to produce 1.3 lakh personal protective equipment (PPEs) for healthcare professionals to fight against Covid-19 within May. Of them, 30,000 will be produced by the end of A...

For years, maternal health experts have worried about a troubling statistic: more than half of all pregnant women in the US are overweight or obese when they conceive, putting them and their children ...

Imposing a stricter measure to control the spread of the coronavirus, governor Andrew M. Cuomo said on Wednesday that he would start requiring people in New York to wear masks or face coverings in pub...

Flawed tests, scarce supplies and limited access to screening have hurt the US’s ability to monitor Covid-19, governors and health officials warn.As President Trump pushes to re-open the economy, mo...

Belle Vue Clinic has set up a fever clinic outside the hospital building, the culmination of a process that officials said got delayed because of the lockdown. The fever clinic started earlier this we...

Pig farmers of Assam have sought the government’s help to allow sale of pork in all pork-consuming districts.A memorandum stating that the rise of swine fever has taken a toll on pig population, was...

A 44-year-old woman battling end-stage heart failure was on Sunday wheeled into an operating theatre for a transplant, only to learn that the surgery wouldn’t happen because the donated organ had be...