Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu suggests India gives too many infant vaccines, potentially causing a rise in autism. He cites a report linking c...

A child in West Texas has died from measles, the first U.S. fatality from the virus since 2015. The outbreak, centred in the Mennonite comm...

Nearly 100 cases of measles have been reported across Texas and New Mexico. Measles was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000,...

Panacea Biotec has secured a $20 million long-term loan from the US International Development Finance Corporation to expand its hexavalent ...

UNICEF's global flagship report "The State of the World's Children 2023: For Every Child, Vaccination" emphasizes the significance of child...

New Delhi, India made significant progress in 2020 in ensuring children receive immunisation that provide protection against diarrhoea and ...

Data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UN children's agency UNICEF showed that 23 million children missed out on basic child...

Even in India, vaccine effectiveness studies from Chandigarh and Vellore have shown that a single or two doses of Covishield provide nearly...

"If we're to avoid multiple outbreaks of life-threatening diseases like measles, yellow fever and diphtheria, we must ensure routine vaccin...

Modi invoked Lord Shiva to hit out at opponents, saying the blessings of `Bhole Baba' had given him the strength to deal with those who had...

The year also saw conduct of a single and uniform entrance examination for admissions to virtually all government and private medical colle...

All 15 States/Union Territories have rates below 51 deaths per 1,000 live births, although there is considerable variation among the States...

"With the introduction of IPV and Pentavalent vaccine a child will be provided added protection against poliovirus and haemophilus influenz...

Started in 1985, UIP has been playing a critical part in India’s quest to achieve health Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 by 2015.

WHO and other some scientific communities have blamed the anti-vaccine movement for the spiralling of measles cases in the US and EU.

Many diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis are now more common than vaccine-preventable diseases.

The Union Cabinet today took a number of decisions, each a poll gift to a specific segment of society. Apart from the reform of foreign inv...