NEW DELHI/GHAZIABAD: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan Friday stressed on strict implementation of laws to ensure food safety and said the government has increased...
WADA suspends India's National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL)
NEW DELHI: The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has suspended the accreditation of the National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL) for six months in what could...
Three elephants killed after being hit by truck in Odisha
KEONJHAR: Three elephants were killed after being hit by a truck on a national highway in Odisha's Keonjhar district early on Thursday, a forest...
Association of Surgeons of India slams Lancet editorial on Kashmir
HYDERABAD: Condemning the editorial on Kashmir published in the British medical journal 'The Lancet', the Association of Surgeons of India (ASI) Tuesday asserted that...
Gujarat has seen third-highest deaths in the country due to swine flu in 2019, HC told
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat has recorded 4,772 cases of swine flu from January 1 this year to June 23, the second-highest after Rajasthan, and 149 deaths...
'Tea industry in stress with rising cost, stagnating price'
GUWAHATI: The tea industry has been under severe stress with increasing production costs and stagnating prices, which threatened the long term viability of the...
FDA approves TB pill that cures more hard-to-treat patients
TRENTON, New Jersey: US regulators have approved a new tuberculosis medicine that shortens and improves treatment for the hardest-to-treat cases, a worsening problem in...
Regular exercise may cut Alzheimer's risk in older adults
NEW YORK: Regular exercise is not only good for memory as people age, but it also appears to help prevent the development of physical...
Vaping companies sue to delay US e-cigarette review
WASHINGTON: A vaping industry group has sued the US government to delay an upcoming review of thousands of e-cigarettes on the market. The legal challenge...
Hookah more toxic than other forms of smoking tobacco: Study
NEW YORK: While the popularity of hookah (tobacco pipe) has increased in recent years, researchers say it may be more dangerous than other forms...