LONDON: The risk of long Covid after a mild infection is about double among people who, before their Covid-19 infection, had been diagnosed as having psychological, respiratory, or general or unspecified health problems, according to a study.

NEW YORK: Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have identified how tau protein -- part of the brain's infrastructure -- gets knotted up into tangles and turns toxic in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other brain diseases.

NEW YORK: Scientists have developed a robot that can autonomously traverse human lungs, enabling physicians to reach tumours that are extremely small and hide deep within tissues.

JERUSALEM: Israel will soon start vaccinations against new Omicron substrains of Covid-19, the Health Ministry has announced in a statement.

SYDNEY: More than 2 billion people are exposed to at least one day of potentially health-impacting environmental hazard annually -- a figure that has increased by 6.8 per cent in the last 10 years, according to alarming results from the study of two decades of global smoke pollution.

DHAKA: Bangladesh has registered 21 dengue fatalities, highest in a single day this year, the Health Ministry said.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Coming as a relief, 24 more samples tested negative for Nipah in Kerala Kozhikode which reported two deaths from the virus last week, officials said on Thursday.

RAJKOT: Heart attacks have claimed the lives of three individuals, all under the age of 45 in Gujarat's Rajkot.

PATNA: Amid dengue outbreak, a total of 8,000 contractual employees of Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC), on Thursday, went on an indefinite strike demanding fulfillment of their various demands.

WASHINGTON: The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced an investment of $600 million in the manufacture of new at-home Covid-19 tests and will deliver the tests for free to households across the country.

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh basic education department has directed students to wear full-sleeved shirts and trousers, in view of the rising dengue cases.

LUCKNOW: A class 9 student of a Lucknow school collapsed due to a suspected heart attack in the classroom and was later declared dead on arrival in the hospital.

BENGALURU: Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao and Sports and Youth Services Minister B. Nagendra on Tuesday announced action will be taken to ban hookah bars in the state.

NEW DELHI: Better hypertension control can help avert a whopping 4.6 million deaths due to high blood pressure in India, according to a World health Organisation report.

LONDON: As Pirola, the new mutation of Omicron strain of Covid-19, worries health experts, the UK's National Health Service (NHS) has asked senior citizens above age 65 to immediately get their top-up booster jabs.

NEW DELHI: The use of cell therapy to treat COVID-19 patients can reduce the risk of death from the disease by 60 per cent, according to a new study.

BHOPAL: An passenger on IndiGo's Jabalpur-New Delhi flight on Monday allegedly suffered cardiac arrest and died onboard, officials said.

BHOPAL: At least 80 children of the Eklavya tribal hostel located in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur district were suffered food poisoning after having dinner, officials said.

TOKYO: Cancer patients face a risk approximately 1.8 times higher of taking their own lives within two years of diagnosis compared to the general population, a survey by a research team with the Japanese health ministry has found.

KERALA: For the third consecutive day, no new case of Nipah has been reported in Kozhikode city of Kerala, where six positive cases have been reported so far.

TORONTO: One hospital bed is roughly equivalent to the carbon footprint of five Canadian households, according to a first-of-its-kind study to calculate the environmental footprint of hospitals.

NEW YORK: Two people in the US, who underwent lung transplantation, have been infected with a deadly bacteria, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

NEW DELHI: Amid recent surge in Covid-19 cases globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said it is "willing" to send another mission to China to probe the deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus’ origin, if the country will cooperate, according to a media report.

TORONTO: Bystanders are less likely to give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to women than men, particularly if the emergency takes place in a public area, according to research presented at the ongoing European Emergency Medicine Congress in Spain on Monday.

TORONTO: In a significant breakthrough, Canadian researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have made groundbreaking progress towards identifying the root cause and potential therapy for preeclampsia, which so far has no cure.

TRIPOLI: Othman Abdul Jalil, Health minister of Libya's eastern-based government, has announced that services had resumed in six hospitals in the city of Derna, a week after deadly floods hit eastern part of the country.

TORONTO: Intrusive thoughts of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD are more frequent, last longer and create a need to act on the compulsion in order to neutralise their thoughts, finds a study.

LONDON: Neonatal kidney transplantation can offer a 'game-changing' solution to the pressing organ shortage crisis, suggests a study.

LUCKNOW: Baghpat-based 'shooter dadi' Prakashi Tomar, 88, has been admitted to a private hospital in Noida after she fell ill.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Health Minister Veena George on Sunday confirmed that no fresh Nipah cases have been reported in the state. She also said that the 42 samples that were collected from people, including those of high-risk category, were reported negative.

NEW DELHI: Amid reports of cases of the new Omicron sub-variants BA.2.86 (Pirola) and EG. 5.1 (Eris) in several countries, experts here on Friday expressed concern over the new variants and emphasized continuous monitoring in the country.

GHAZIABAD: A shocking video from Ghaziabad has surfaced, in which a young man was seen collapsing in a gym while running on a treadmill.

NEW DELHI: Although the World Health Organization (WHO) in May declared that the Covid pandemic is no longer a public health emergency, newer variants continue to emerge and drive infections.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab's Local Government Minister, Balkar Singh, stated that under the leadership of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, the state government is achieving new milestones in providing free, high-quality healthcare services to the people. Through 664 Aam Aadmi Clinics, more than 51 lakh people have accessed healthcare facilities so far.