Health

NEW DELHI: Guidance available for young teenagers on informed decisions and good sexual health through school education may have dropped India’s teen pregnancy by a marginal 1 per cent, from six years ago, but conception among girls in Indian Muslim families has been reported at an alarming 8% rate, higher than any other religion in […]

BENGALURU: According to a survey conducted by community social media platform LocalCircles, 1 in 3 Indians believe the 4th COVID-19 wave in India has already started. This particular question of the survey received 11,563 responses. However, 55 per cent of people, out of 12,609 responses to the query, are absolutely confident that experts in India […]

  NEW DELHI: The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) on Tuesday granted a restricted emergency use authorisation to Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin for children aged 6-12 years. Covaxin is one of the first COVID-19 vaccines in the world to generate data in the 2-18 year age group. The authorisation is given to Bharat Biotech after […]

  NEW DELHI: In a major development that will boost the world’s fight against the COVID-19 virus, Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech on Thursday announced that its popular COVID vaccine Covaxin will now be commercially available in Mexico. The global leader in vaccine innovation, Bharat Biotech today announced that they have revised the agreement with US biotech […]

NEW DELHI: In an unusual occurrence, a 37-year-old woman from Ghaziabad, who had undergone in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment, has delivered triplets at full term at Moolchand hospital in Delhi. The woman conceived triplets following an IVF procedure at the hospital after 10 years of marriage, said Dr Tuhina Goel, a consultant gynecologist at the hospital. […]