Malathy Iyer is Senior Editor (Health) at The Times of India, Mumbai. She writes mainly on health-related subjects.

The University of Oxford has received support from European Medicines Agency's (EMA) for its vaccine targeting the deadly ...

aNational Institute for Health and Care Research Southampton Clinical Research Facility and Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, UK bFaculty of Medicine ...

Scientists have fast-tracked a vaccine for a killer virus with pandemic potential that is fatal in up to 85 per cent of cases ...

In 1998, the deadly Nipah virus crossed from pigs to humans in ... The risk of zoonotic diseases—infections transmitted from animals to humans—is increasing as we muscle in on the wild.

or Nipah virus. With this lab, we'll be able to test and research them safely right here in Nagpur."Unlike the existing BSL-2 ...

Travellers to Spain have been alerted after a nasty disease which can lead to multi-organ failure was detected in a tourist ...

A 42-year-old woman from Valanchery in Kerala's Malappuram district, who tested positive for the Nipah virus on May 8, has now been declared virus-free after testing negative in two consecutive ...

Malappuram: Health Minister Veena George on Friday announced that the Nipah-infected patient from Valanchery has tested negative after two consecutive samples confirmed the absence of infection. The ...

Malappuram: A patient infected with the Nipah virus in this district has tested negative for the virus in two separate samples and is now considered technically free of the infection, Kerala ...

Malappuram (Kerala), May 30 (PTI) A patient infected with the Nipah virus in this district has tested negative for the virus in two separate samples and is now considered technically free of the ...