Malaria and dengue are unpleasant enough individually. However, it’s their joint force that is fearful. Experts say a higher number of malaria and dengue co-infection cases have been noticed in the c

Cases of malaria, dengue and leptospirosis are on the rise in the city with the monsoon bringing with it a spate of fevers and infections, say city doctors.

The monsoon is also the busiest time of t

The burden of infectious disease is increasing rapidly and the incidence of two of the most common infectious diseases in the monsoon season — malaria and dengue — is very high among the young, accord

With heavy rains and water inundation and accumulation at several places, infectious diseases such as malaria and dengue have been reported from places like Hafeezpet, Nagamanikonda etc. At least 50 c

Stagnant water, even in a small vessel at home, can breed mosquitoes and can cause malaria. Eating the so-called healthy raw salads at parties and functions can land you in hospital with food poison

There has been a doubling of cases of malaria infections detected in British Asians returning to the UK after visiting Pakistan, according to latest figures by health officials.

New figures from the

Open source drug discovery might yield results of several scientists who are toiling to find a cure for the poor man’s diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, say experts. Where traditional drug re

The year 2011 was full of small and big medical breakthrough that put Chennai on the world surgery map.

In April, orthopaedic surgeon Vijay Bose’s team performed two complex hip replacement procedur

Mosquito menace looms large with nearly 50,000 people testing positive for malaria across the country in just one month and over fifty per cent of the cases reported from Orissa and Jharkhand alone.

There has been over 20 per cent decline in the number of deaths from malaria worldwide in the past decade, but the mosquito-borne disease continued to haunt India with the country witnessing over 1,10