People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has urged West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to frame a policy to replace horse-drawn carriages for tourist rides with e-carriages. PETA India A...

With St. Jude aiming to broaden its reach across India, more such stories of transformation will emerge in the years to come. With its well-defined goals, dedicated management and staff, and above all...

Covid cases are back in the twin townships. The state health department has started a survey to detect any spike in the number of Covid-19 cases across the state and both Salt Lake and New Town are un...

Many hospitals in Kolkata are left with huge stocks of monoclonal antibody cocktail therapy drugs for Covid and personal protective equipment (PPE) suits, which are of little use now. The cocktail of...

Promises of big investments in healthcare in the state, totalling more than Rs 2,000 crore, came on the concluding day of the Bengal Global Business Summit on Thursday. Surgeon Devi Shetty led the pa...

A pain clinic that will offer treatment for all kinds of muscle and bone-related pains was launched by the department of physical medicine & rehabilitation (PM&R) of North Bengal Medical Colle...

The man, who had assaulted Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar two days ago, has been admitted to a hospital for psychiatric treatment, a senior police official said here on Tuesday.    &...

Statistics issued by the ICMR-National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research suggest that in 2020 alone, 1.08 lakh new cancer cases were reported in Bengal. The projected incidence of cancer cas...

The chair professor will carry out high-quality empirical and applied research in the rural drinking water and sanitation sector ...

The city has more critical care facilities now than a couple of years ago because of the money hospitals had to spend during the height of the Covid pandemic. Both government and private healthcare f...