The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recognised the Delta variant (B.1.617.2) which was first found in India as the 'variant of concern' at the global level....
Ripu Daman Bevli, Founder, Litter Free India movement and Plogging Ambassador of India says that the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the plastic and bio-medical waste crisis...
Globally, air pollution accounts for an estimated 4.2 million deaths per year. As individuals, it's time we take responsibility and do our bit to clean up...
In India, currently mixing of two doses of COVID-19 vaccines are not allowed. However, India plans to study vaccine cocktail that is mixing of two doses...
Spike protein on the surface of the coronavirus mutates and causes mutations which are responsible for more virulent infections. Dr. Pinak Pandya from Jaslok Hospital and...
In a Facebook Live session with NDTV-Dettol Banega Swasth India, Dr. Rommel Tickoo, Director, Internal Medicine, Max Healthcare said that a non-COVID patient can contract but...
Celebrity chef Saransh Goila's nationwide initiative 'Covid Meals For India', a website curated and designed for Covid patients looking for home-cooked meals, tiffin services and home...
In a Facebook Live session with NDTV-Dettol Banega Swasth India, Dr Arvind Kumar, Chairman, Institute of Chest Surgery, Medanta Hospital explained that exercising has no effect...
Black fungus cases are on a rise in India, AIIMS director Dr Randeep Guleria said that the misuse of steroids is the reason behind the rise...
India has lost 269 doctors during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, since April first week. Of this, 50 deaths were recorded on May 16...
The gap between the first and second doses of the Covishield COVID-19 vaccine has been increased to 12-16 weeks - from the existing six-eight weeks -...
Khalsa Aid India, a non-governmental organisation is providing 'Free Sewa' of oxygen concentrators in the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi and soon plans to expand...
Every year May 12, the birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, is observed as International Nurses Day. On this day, NDTV-Dettol Banega Swasth India campaign would like...
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), hands are the main pathways of germ transmission and thus hand hygiene is the most important measure to avoid...