COVID-19 caused an alarming surge in premature births, but vaccines were key to returning the early birth rate to pre-pandemic levels, researchers have found analysing birth records in California, US.

The sudden spike in respiratory illnesses across China has brought back memories of the early days of Covid, which had also emerged as a mysterious pneumonia.

Amid rising cases of respiratory illness in China, a senior doctor from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences has said that viral infections are common in winter and there is no possibility of another pandemic like Covid yet.

A higher dose of the COVID-19 drug, dexamethasone, may have less beneficial effects for patients in India as compared with those in Europe, according to a study published in The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia journal.

Researchers have found a way to reverse a cellular process triggered by Covid that contributes to premature aging of the brain.

Here we will discuss the many ways in which we can lower our risk of catching pink eye this flu season.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked China to share more data about the pneumonia cases.

Indian researchers found no evidence that COVID-19 vaccination was behind "unexplained sudden deaths", a medical organisation said on Tuesday, instead pointing to the disease itself, binge drinking and intense exercise as risk factors.

Vaccines administered for COVID-19 did not increase the risk of sudden death among young adults in India, according to a peer-reviewed ICMR study.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was quoted as saying the government should "just let people die" during the Covid-19 pandemic rather than impose a second national lockdown, the inquiry into how Britain handled the crisis heard on Monday.

Boris Johnson was "bamboozled" by data during the Covid-19 pandemic, a public inquiry into his government's response to the global health crisis heard on Monday.

The result section has been disabled to help the students from Tamil Nadu as no board examinations were conducted during Covid in 2021.

The Madras High Court on Thursday held that post-graduate students who were on Covid-19 duty in government hospitals will also be eligible for the incentive marks for selection to the post of assistant surgeons.

She became septic and doctors had to put her in a medically-induced coma to administer vasopressor drugs in a bid to save her vital organs.

Chinese experts have sounded an alert about the relapse of COVID-19 infections during the current winter season and asked elderly and vulnerable populations to get vaccinated.

Pre-existing allergic conditions such as asthma or rhinitis may be associated with a higher risk of experiencing long-term symptoms associated with COVID-19, or Long-COVID, according to a study.

The Centre directed online travel portals to process pending refunds on air ticket bookings during the coronavirus-induced lockdown by the third week of November.

Scientists across the world are worried about a new COVID-19 variant that could be more infectious and could evade vaccine immunity.

The Enforcement Directorate on Monday summoned Mumbai Mayor and Uddhav Thackeray faction leader Kishori Pednekar in connection with COVID body bag scam case.

A new documentary film reveals how a monthly Rs 1,580 ($19) grant from the South African government instituted during the Covid pandemic for unemployed people has changed the lives of the beneficiaries.

Pakistan team director Mickey Arthur had an interesting take on Pakistan's disappointing Cricket World Cup 2023 show.

The messages and notes from officials' diary suggested the former UK prime minister was held in low regard by his advisors.

The recent spate of deaths due to heart attack in Gujarat at Garba events during the Navratri has shifted the focus back to a possible link between COVID-19 infection and the cardiac health of those affected.

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Sunday cited an Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) study and said those who had earlier suffered a severe bout of COVID-19 must not overexert themselves for a year or two to avoid heart attacks and ca