The First Ten
Pandemics do not begin with sirens or headlines. They begin with a cough that goes unreported, a fever mistaken for exhaustion, a worker who does not stay home because staying home costs money.
Pandemics do not begin with sirens or headlines. They begin with a cough that goes unreported, a fever mistaken for exhaustion, a worker who does not stay home because staying home costs money.
During his visit, the Mayor instructed officials to deploy additional pumps for faster clearance of floodwater and to step up fogging to prevent disease outbreaks.
The recent confirmation of healthy births through mitochondrial donation marks a profound turning point in the way humanity confronts hereditary disease.
8 May is celebrated as International Thalassemia Day. There is no cure for this disease, so to fight against it, it is necessary to increase awareness, so that no one is born with it.
Rwanda will roll out a new malaria prevention strategy under which all members of a household will be tested if one person is diagnosed with the disease, a health official has said.
She was 80 years old and was suffering from an incurable disease for quite some time.
Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. The planet Earth, a majestic 4.54 billion years old, was once covered in verdant green, but the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations finds the earth has now lost one-third of its forest through human activities.
Chronic wasting disease is a deadly and severely contagious neurological disorder found in deer caused by prions – abnormal, transmissible pathogenic agents.
As per research, people with diabetes are twice as likely to develop some form of heart disease in their lifetime.
Kerala recently reported four cases of the Nipah virus, with two unfortunate fatalities. This serves as a stark reminder of…
