India and the African Union have postponed the upcoming India-Africa Forum Summit in New Delhi. The decision, citing an "emerging public he...

Global security faces growing challenges. DRDO scientist Upendra Kumar Singh stresses the need for stronger preparedness against chemical, ...

WHO 79th World Health Assembly: World Health Organization member states meet in Geneva. Deadly hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks are major con...

FBI Director Kash Patel faces scrutiny for allegedly using a government jet for a country music concert with his girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins...

The potential deal with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) would see Moderna's mRNA technology being used to develop a vaccine targeting ...

The search for the source of the new coronavirus has sparked claims of cover-ups and fueled political tensions,, particularly between the U...

Some vaccine candidates for China virus are already at trial stage. But path to pharmacy is strewn with hurdles.

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said the world is "dangerously unprepared" for future pandemics which could be more dangerous than the Eb...

"The public health infrastructure around the world needs to be improved," the US president said in a joint radio address with Modi in the s...

Two leading Ebola vaccines appear safe on humans and trials on volunteers will begin soon to combat the deadly epidemic in West Africa, the...

A study by the Int'l Livestock Research Institute in 2012 put India as the most affected country in terms of diseases that are spread throu...

"Our doctors may have only a vague picture about many new viral diseases as they do not have a first-hand knowledge about them."

Doval met his US counterpart Susan Rice and Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday after meeting Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel.

In a statement issued before his departure to the US, the PM said Ebola is one of the many “pressing challenges” for the international comm...

According to WHO, in 1976, the disease first appeared in two simultaneous outbreaks in Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo.

WHO declares effective Ebola vaccine will not be available before 2015;British pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline to start clinical trials of vac...

"No, not at this point," the White House Press Secretary, Josh Earnest, told reporters when asked if the flights coming to the US would be ...