Slow travel in India offers a deeper, authentic experience by immersing oneself in the local culture rather than rushing through numerous destinations. Staying in homestays, relishing home-cooked ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade ...

Two vulnerable girls were treated as ‘sex slaves’ by a group of Asian men in Rochdale, a trial has heard. Eight men deny sexual offences allegedly committed against the two girls, who were ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded approval for Johnson & Johnson’s nasal spray, Spravato, to allow it to be used as a standalone treatment for patients with severe depression ...

Jan. 21 (UPI) --The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever stand-alone nasal spray to treat drug-resistant depression. Johnson & Johnson's Spravato has been approved to treat a ...

Giant pandas Yi Lan and Xing Qiu have frolicked joyfully for the first time in their new home at Adelaide Zoo's Bamboo Forest, as dignitaries and visitors welcomed the pair to their new life in ...

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NEW YORK (PIX11) – A nose spray has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to help treat depression, Johnson & Johnson announced on Tuesday. Spravato is a first-of-its-kind ...

A TV doctor has warned against taking cough medicine when suffering flu symptoms — as the remedy is, at best, useless and at worst, could do more harm than good. Dr Ranj Singh, who regularly ...

Nepal has sharply increased Everest climbing permit fees and introduced a slew of measures aimed at controlling garbage pollution and preventing accidents on the planet’s tallest peak. Under the ...

Footage shows the Betong Animal Lover Club rescue volunteers using a long bamboo pole to help secure ... Researchers found that 7,000 people are treated for snake bites each year in Thailand.

Norovirus is most commonly known as the stomach flu, but it is not caused by the influenza virus. It’s a different, highly contagious virus that generally spreads via hand-to-mouth contact about 12 to ...