
The number of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) infections has exceeded the warning level nationwide in Japan for the first time in nearly five years, the country's National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) reported on Tuesday. ...

In a shocking case, doctors here removed 1,500 stones from the gallbladder of a 32-year-old woman....

Noise pollution in Bangladesh capital Dhaka is reaching alarming levels, severely impacting the daily lives of its residents, a study showed. ...

JD(U) MLA Hari Narayan Singh was hospitalised after his health condition deteriorated during a disaster committee meeting in Bihar’s Nalanda district on Monday. ...

The CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) has come out with a healthy herbal product, 'Pio', which is 100 per cent plant-based with no artificial sweetener or caffeine, but has the fizz and taste intact. ...

Genital herpes infections and their related complications caused billions of dollars in healthcare expenditures and productivity losses globally, according to a study on Tuesday. ...

Lifestyle measures are crucial to increasing the high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, also known as the "good" cholesterol, said a top neurologist on Tuesday. ...

Frequent respiratory viruses and bacteria may have boosted children’s immune systems, saving them from the worst effects of Covid-19, according to a new study. ...

A 27-year-old youth has died of dengue fever in Bengaluru, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) health bulletin confirmed on Monday. ...

Zika virus that recently infected five people in Maharashtra’s Pune is majorly asymptomatic, but can resemble dengue fever, said health experts here on Monday. ...