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Mumbai: High pollution, weather change take toll on skin
The city's high pollution levels are not only leading to respiratory issues but also having a detrimental effect on skin health. General physicians an → Read More
Mumbai doctors see rise in coughing bouts after viral illness, more in kids
Doctors have observed a dramatic rise in patients with chronic and persistent coughs after full recovery from a viral illness over the last two months → Read More
XBB, BA.2.75 most common in Maharashtra, BF.7 strain not a big threat: Experts
Despite the recent discovery of the BF.7 variant in the state, genome research experts indicate the XBB and BA.2.75 strains are still the most prevale → Read More
Say cheese: Digital dentistry goes democratic, debuts in Mumbai's public hospital
The 90-year-old Nair Hospital Dental College, Mumbai Central, is set to become the city's first public college to introduce digital dentistry, with it → Read More
12-year-old boy falls off train. Saved by Mumbai cop, but loses a leg
A fall from a local train between Bandra and Mahim stations resulted in a 12-year-old boy eventually losing his leg knee down. His life was saved by a → Read More
HIV 'wonder drug' seeing dropouts due to side effects
Dolutegravir (DTG), the wonder drug recently added to the basket of medicines to treat HIV in the country, is causing weight gain, diabetes, hypertens → Read More
HIV testing for infants hit by kit shortage for 3 months
HIV testing for children born to positive mothers has stopped or slowed down in many states, including Maharashtra, for three months due to unavailabi → Read More
Extra dose for four lakh children in Maharashtra’s measles-hit hotspots as 1 more infant dies
Nearly 4lakh children in hotspots of 10 measles-hit districts in the state will be administered an additional dose of the measles-rubella (MR) vaccine → Read More
Mumbai: Their infants lost to measles, mums spread word of vax
The advice came from a mother's heart. "Vaccination can save the lives of your children. Get your children immunised," said Shaheen Khan, whose 14-mon → Read More
Nearly 1 in 5 Mumbaikars has diabetes, shows study
About 18% of Mumbaikars between 18 to 69 years were found with increased fasting blood glucose levels in a first-of-its-kind study carried out across → Read More
Mumbai: 50 kids in hospital for suspected measles, one on ventilator
A toddler infected with measles is on ventilator, battling for life, at Kasturba Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Chinchpokli. About fifty children a → Read More
18 days and counting, Mumbai's longest zero Covid death stretch
The city has not reported a Covid-19 death in the last 18 days - the longest stretch Mumbai has gone without witnessing a coronavirus fatality in more → Read More
Mumbai: After boom during Covid, chemists' profits plunge
Lal Shankar recently closed his 15-month-old chemist store after sustaining heavy loss for six months. A pharmacy graduate who always wanted to run a → Read More
Mumbai (34) sees highest cadaver organ donations in 3 years
Seeing their 67-year-old father grapple with Alzheimer's disease for over a decade, Devang and Pranit Gandhi from Kanjurmarg wanted to donate his body → Read More
Twenty minutes HIV self-test kit likely to be in India by December
MUMBAI: HIV diagnosis in India is set to take a big leap forward. → Read More
41% of childbirth in Maharashtra at private facilities, says report
The latest Sample Registration Survey (SRS) bulletin has stated that more than 97% of babies in Maharashtra were born in a health facility in 2020. Bu → Read More
Johnson & Johnson barred from making talcum powder in Maharashtra
Johnson & Johnson can no longer manufacture or sell its baby powder in Maharashtra as the FDA in the state cancelled its licence over safety concerns → Read More
Maharashtra: Lung infection back among Covid positive elderly
Physicians are again witnessing Covid-19 cases with lower respiratory tract infection symptoms involving the lungs in senior citizens and people with → Read More
Lung infection back among Covid positive elderly
India News: A cursory analysis of nearly 200 Covid-19 patients hospitalised across the state's medical colleges underlines this observation among physicians. Doct → Read More
Covid patients in Mumbai hospitals double in 2 weeks
People hospitalised with Covid-19 have doubled since early August, with a more sudden and sharper rise in the past seven days. Doctors are unsure if e → Read More