Epidemic
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Know what is Diabetes and how to cure it!
Lifestyle | Apr 24, 2016, 02:55 PM ISTKnow what is Diabetes and how to cure It! Diabetes fast gaining the status of a potential epidemic in India with more than 62 million diabetic individuals currently diagnosed with the disease.
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AIDS epidemic can end by 2030: UNAIDS
World | Jul 15, 2015, 12:04 AM ISTGeneva: The AIDS epidemic can end by 2030, the UN said today, highlighting the global response that has averted 30 million new HIV infections worldwide in the last 15 years including in India, which ranks
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Private hospitals 'cash in' on swine flu fear
India | Feb 06, 2015, 07:45 PM ISTNoida: Private hospitals of the city are taking full advantage of Swine flu fear among people. The hospitals are charging each patient around Rs 6000 for a diagnosis tests.Surprisingly, some patients whose tests were reported
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Mark Zuckerberg donates USD 25 mn to fight Ebola
World | Oct 15, 2014, 09:43 AM ISTWashington: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced on that social networking site that he and his wife, Priscilla, have donated $25 million to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention for the fight against the
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Government confirms first case of Ebola in US
World | Oct 01, 2014, 06:46 AM ISTDallas: The first case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S. was confirmed on Tuesday in a patient who recently traveled from Liberia to Dallas—a sign of the far-reaching impact of the out-of-control epidemic in West
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Over 100 dead as flu epidemic grips US
World | Jan 12, 2013, 01:33 PM ISTWashington, Jan 12 : The United States is in the grip of a flu epidemic.Over 100 deaths have been attributed to the disease with 24 states and New York City reporting high levels of flu