Iran’s coronavirus death toll rose to 16 on Tuesday, the highest outside China, increasing its international isolation as dozens of countries from South Korea to Italy accelerated emergency measures...

India on Saturday asked people to avoid non-essential travel to Singapore in a fresh advisory amid concerns about the novel coronavirus that has, ferried by travellers, spread from China to 26 countri...

China's tech billionaire Jack Ma has pledged over USD 2 million to support the development of antiviral drugs to combat the new coronavirus which has killed 2,236 people in the country and infected mo...

Now and then, we hear a lot of youngsters talk about frequent episodic headaches called migraine. It is seen in every seventh person and is prevalent all over the world. Migraine is more prevalent tha...

The analysis shows that lower respiratory tract infections, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and ischaemic heart disease — in that order — account for the largest proportions of years lost fr...

When the World Health Organisation declared December 1 World AIDS Day in 1988, the disease was a global pandemic. By the end of that year, 82,362 cases of AIDS had been reported in the United States, ...

US drug regulators on Wednesday approved a new compound for use with two other drugs to treat the deadliest form of tuberculosis, with health activists saying it should be made affordable to patients ...

India has the second largest population in the world, with over half of the territory used as cropland. India’s food production needs to increase substantially in the coming decades due to an expect...

Calcutta Municipal Corporation personnel will try to visit every home in the city from this week to seek out anyone suffering from fever in an exercise aimed at detecting any silent Covid-19 carrier.C...

A person not showing symptoms of the coronavirus such as coughing or sneezing should not wear a mask, public health experts have said.It is, however, advisable that health workers and those who work i...