Manini Roy (name changed), a 25–year-old banker from Delhi is recovering from malaria. The tropical infectious and mosquito borne disease were perhaps the most unpleasant ten days of her life and could also had been life–threatening if was diagnosed wrongly. Roy is among those fortunate who
April 25 2013, 9:07 am
Read MoreEverybody knows about malaria and what causes it, but did you know that the disease has not loosened its grip on our country? On World Malaria Day 2013, we at Health.india.com, aim to spread awareness about the disease and lower its burden on our nation. 1. Malaria is a mosquito-borne
April 25 2013, 1:41 pm
Read MoreAustralian Prime Minister Julia Gillard Friday welcomed the scientific communities of India and Australia working together to develop a vaccine to fight the scourge of malaria.
October 19 2012, 1:24 pm
Read More28 year old Deepak works in an ad agency in Mumbai. One fine Sunday morning he complained of headache, severe body ache. He also said that he had nausea and vomiting. He could barely rise up from bed. He recorded a temperature of 104 deg F. He was shivering and also feeling cold. He was taken
October 3 2012, 3:47 pm
Read MoreIn recent years, India has managed to control communicable diseases like malaria, cholera and polio. However, the nation now has to deal with a new breed of developed world obesity-fuelled diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular ailments. Coupled with a sedentary urban lifestyle, increased
April 26 2013, 12:22 pm
Read MoreOn the eve of World Malaria Day 2012, WHO hails global progress in combating malaria but highlights the need to further reinforce the fight. WHO’s new initiative, T3: Test, Treat, Track, urges malaria-endemic countries and donors to move towards universal access to diagnostic testing and
October 3 2012, 5:11 pm
Read MoreDiseases in 2012 followed a similar trend to previous years. India plays host to several seasonal ones like dengue, fever, malaria, tuberculosis and swine flu which show up during particular seasons in some particular states but that still didn’t stop our healthcare system to be caught completely
January 2 2013, 10:04 am
Read MoreIf you thought your mother was being unreasonable asking you not to eat outside or wade in the puddles of water on the roads during the monsoons, you are wrong. Those precautions might just prevent some of the most common monsoon-diseases. Let’s discuss some of them: 1. Common cold,
October 25 2012, 1:01 pm
Read MoreWatch The Oscar winner Hillary swank and The Oscar nominee Brenda Blethyn in 'Mary and Martha'
April 24 2013, 12:00 am
Read MoreWith the Olympics on, it's a fever nobody seems to mind in the 54-nation continent at any time. Soccer fever, which afflicts nearly every African, has now become a powerful tool to kick malaria out of the continent of a billion people where the mosquito-borne disease kills about 2,500 people a day.
October 3 2012, 11:45 am
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