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Sabarimala season amid ‘brain-eating amoeba’ cases in Kerala puts TN...
The Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine has already released detailed guidelines, and awareness drives are being conducted across...
Muscle weakness, sensory loss? Get tested for Guillain-Barre Syndrome
20 Feb 2025 7:00 AM ISTOfficials of the State Health Department have denied an outbreak of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) in Tamil Nadu, as the disease-related fatality in...
Maharashtra's GBS tally rises to 207; woman's death in Kolhapur...
15 Feb 2025 8:51 AM ISTMeanwhile, though the official death toll remained unchanged at eight as per the state health department, a suspected fatality from the ailment was...
Door-to-door screening to identify leprosy cases begins across TN...
13 Feb 2025 7:00 AM ISTLeprosy, a communicable disease caused by Mycobacterium Leprae bacteria, spreads via droplets during coughing or sneezing by untreated cases. The...
After a surge last year, number of dengue cases dips in TN
11 Feb 2025 9:09 PM ISTTamil Nadu recorded 26,740 cases of dengue in 2024 and 13 fatalities. Officials of the State Health Department said that the surge was due to sporadic...
Tamil Nadu: Waiting for transplant, desperate patients fall in...
10 Feb 2025 7:00 AM ISTTransplant Authority of Tamil Nadu clarifies that no patient is given preference based on their social status or income, rather a computerised system...
Complaint filed against ICH staff for locking up doctors quarters in...
8 Feb 2025 9:21 PM ISTThese residential quarters for the government doctors are located in Egmore. It is said that the quarters were left locked Friday night.
Over 140 emergency service vehicles worth Rs 30 cr begin operations in...
4 Feb 2025 9:23 PM ISTAs many as 72 ambulances, 4 four-wheeler emergency vehicles for hilly and rough terrain areas, 31 free hearse vehicles, and 36 ‘102’ free mother and...