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Mainpuri: Over 21 students fall sick after drinking contaminated water, 7
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Over 21 students fell ill and seven other students were hospitalised after allegedly drinking contaminated water at Government Engineering College in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri, a health official said on Friday.
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CDSCO suspends manufacturing of eye drops linked to 55 adverse events in U
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The FDA has restricted the imports of products manufactured by Chennai-based Global Pharma Private Healthcare Limited.
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Chhattisgarh: Jal Jeevan Mission gives new lease of life to Naxal-affected
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Water is life and the Jal Jeevan Mission has proved to be a boon for Naxal-affected villages of the Bastar region in Chhattisgarh. The people of this region had to drink contaminated water from river, drains and waterfall for years in the Naxal-prone, hilly region surrounded by forests. But
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4 million children living near contaminated floodwater in Pakistan: UNICEF
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Many families in Jacobabad have little more than mere cloth to cover their temporary shelters by stagnant flood waters while temperatures have dropped to seven-degree celsius at night.
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Indian pharma industry reliable supplier: MEA on death of 18 Uzbek childre
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
This comes as India is in contact with the national drug regulator of Uzbekistan regarding reports of Noida-based cough syrups allegedly linked to the deaths of 18 children in Uzbekistan. The health ministry said that there have been reports from Uzbekistan concerning contaminated cough s
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Gambia death case: Drug regulator finds no contamination in syrup, calls o
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
In the letter to World Health Organization's director of regulation and prequalification Rogerio Gaspar, Drugs Controller General VG Somani said that the technical committee found that "the products have been found not to have been contaminated with DEG or EG as per the test reports. These r
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Two people dead after drinking contaminated water
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Two people have died and more than five were hospitalized after allegedly drinking contaminated water in Telangana's Mailardevpally.
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Arsenic-contaminated water associated with antibiotic resistance in childr
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
According to a new study, high levels of arsenic contamination in drinking water, compared to areas with less contamination, have a higher prevalence of antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli in both water and child stool samples.
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Researchers trace neural pathways that cause vomiting after consuming cont
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
The urge to vomit after eating contaminated food is the body's natural defensive response to get rid of bacterial toxins. However, the process of how our brain initiates this biological reaction upon detecting germs remains elusive.
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Scientists unearth potential viral resistance mechanism
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Scientists have unearthed a secret that may explain why some people are able to resist viral infections, having screened the immune systems of women exposed to hepatitis C (HCV) through contaminated anti-D transfusions given over 40 years ago in Ireland.
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Scientists unearth potential secret to viral resistance
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have unearthed a secret that may explain why some people are able to resist viral infections, having screened the immune systems of women exposed to hepatitis C (HCV) through contaminated anti-D transfusions given over 40 years ago in Ireland.
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Pathogens can hitch a ride on plastic to reach the sea: Study
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
The study, published April 26 in the journal Scientific Reports, is the first to connect microplastics in the ocean with land-based pathogens. It found that microplastics can make it easier for disease-causing pathogens to concentrate in plastic-contaminated areas of the ocean.
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