The death toll from the April 14 blast at Vedanta's power plant in Sakti district, Chhattisgarh, has reached 21. A worker died from injurie...

The Supreme Court has thrown out a petition seeking the formation of a national task force focused on food safety, citing a lack of substan...

Elmed Life Sciences has raised $2.7 million from Agrisure Fund, which is managed by Nabard-backed Nabventures. The company develops and man...

A total of 1,862 disease outbreaks were reported to the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme last year, with the highest number being ...

The total funding of USD 122,475,000 will, over a period of five years, be distributed to the three top Indian health research institutions...

The Supreme Court said pharma companies cannot claim tax exemption against freebies handed out to doctors as it is not allowed under curren...

Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey told Rajya Sabha on March 16 that no case of reinfection by mutant variants of SARS-CoV-2 viru...

In a big relief to the poor, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed that private labs should conduct coronavirus tests free of cost, obser...

The DBT, DST, CSIR and DAE laboratories have been advised to strictly follow ICMR guidelines before initiation of testing for coronavirus i...

So far, 100 people have been hospitalised with H1N1 cases and two people have died in Bengaluru due to the virus attack which is also calle...

The BSE Healthcare index was trading 0.49 per cent up at 13,978 around 12:30 pm.

While Nestle India claimed that lead content was within the permissible limit, the Centre said there was a need for comprehensive findings ...

India’s apex consumer court has ordered tests on 16 additional samples of Maggi noodles at the request of the central government

"All the 90 samples, covering 6 variants, tested by these laboratories are clear with lead much below the permissible limits," the company ...

Lead is a heavy metal contaminant. It is absolutely hazardous if it is taken beyond the acceptable limit. It can be much more harmful if co...

In phase-II, two more regional labs will come up in Central Drug Testing Laboratory, Hyderabad and Regional Drug Testing Laboratory in Chan...

Government today said it will open seven new quality control cells in the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-17) to monitor quality of foodgrains.