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Companies investigate how therapies including Crispr might treat a debilitating genetic disease

National Institute of Cholera has received hundreds of applications from people of different districts of West Bengal, expressing their interests to be volunteers for the phase III trial

The three member team sent by the Union health ministry is being led by Luv Agarwal, joint secretary in the ministry, the Director of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr S K Singh, and Associate Professor of Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, Dr Neeraj Nishchal

The coronavirus may be 'reactivating' in people who have been cured of the illness, according to Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Martin works in Aluva, a municipality town whose residents are anxious as it houses the Kochi airport.The perception of a rich man’s disease burdening the lives of poor men is taking hold in the city

Constitution experts emphasize that it is not necessary to amend a law because it has been around from the pre-independence era

If infectious diseases are wiped out, chances are that we would still be faced with a miserable, costly and painful end to our lives, as there would be other illnesses waiting to kill us.

Under the draft National Policy for Rare Diseases, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare would provide financial support under its umbrella scheme Rashtriya Arogya NidhiThe financial benefits will also be extended to the broader class of Ayushman Bharat, which covers 40% of the population

The study compiled by Indian Council of Medical Research is titled 'National Burden Estimates of healthy life lost in India 2017'

Affluent states like Gujarat are failing to ensure their poorer children have a decent diet and that the richer ones are protected from lifestyle diseases