In January last year, for example, a study in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening journal said about 74 per cent of over 4,000 people surveyed globally said having vegetation at home helped calm their nerves and banish negative emotions like stress, in addition to beautifying their living spaces.

Fetus in fetu is a rare condition that has been defined as the presence of one of the twins in the body of the other. Fetus-in-fetu is so uncommon that few doctors would likely encounter it in their careers.

How the city responded to an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1630 holds eerie parallels with the Covid-19 pandemic, and potentially some cautionary lessons for monetary policy makers.

As per the USFDA, the company is recalling the affected lot due to "presence of foreign substance: Customer complaint for the presence of dark, gritty substance found within the bottle, which was determined to be activated carbon from the desiccant canister inside the bottle".

Unlike the Covid-19 virus, which is spread through the air and respiratory droplets, spreading monkeypox requires much closer contact. Sharing bedding, clothing or a toothbrush with an infected person would create greater risk, the officials said on the call.

Researchers at the University of Missouri (MU) in the US pulled electronic medical records of 1.4 billion encounters prior to July 31, 2021 in Cerner Real World Data.

Deltacron’s story begins in mid-February, when scientists at the Institut Pasteur in Paris uploaded a genetic sequence of the coronavirus that looked very different from previous sequences.

The treatments lost potency but they reduced the viral burden and limited lung inflammation caused by the virus, scientists from the Washington University School of Medicine reported on the bioRxiv server.

A controlled clinical study in the UK, the findings of which were made public on Wednesday, now offers more concrete insights, some of which are new.

World Cancer Day 2022: At the height of the Covid-19 second wave in April-May 2021 and later during the third wave in January this year, registration of new cancer patients have plummeted across the country. Here are some trends from the period.

High dietary intake of fat has been linked to pancreatic cancer, not only directly, but also by increased chances of obesity.

The rigid social distancing norms and reduced access to timely healthcare have been restricting patients from doing some of the things that help prevent and manage diabetes. As a result, inactivity has hit dangerous new levels, creating a well-noted spike in diabetes occurrence across the world.

It is widely believed that Omicron was first detected in South Africa in November 2021 and spread to all other countries faster than any other variant of Covid-19 seen till now.

Hans Kluge, WHO’s regional director for Europe, said in a statement that omicron offers “plausible hope for stabilization and normalization,” but that it is “far too early to relax.”