Hot nights are emerging as a serious health risk, especially during ongoing heatwaves across India. When temperatures remain high after sun...

Official data reveals India's excess mortality during 2020-2021. The figure is lower than several high and middle-income countries. The Civ...

Researchers, including those from Oxford University, analyzed data from the National Family Health Survey 2019-21 and estimated that nearly...

The Ministry said that the study is erroneous and the methodology followed by the authors has critical flaws; the claims are inconsistent a...

According to the World Health Organization, the total number of global deaths attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 is not less tha...

A study published in Nature Communications reveals that the risk of fatal heat waves has significantly increased in the last 20 years and w...

A research article published last year has brought to light how policy-induced famines killed tens of millions of Indians in 40 years,1880 ...

The key assumption is that increases in all-cause mortality during peak weeks of Covid compared to pre-pandemic periods are nearly all due ...

Union Health Ministry on Thursday strongly objected to the mathematical models used by WHO for projecting excess mortality estimates linked...

The three-day conference of the CCHFW, an apex advisory body of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), began on Thursday. It is...

New estimates from the WHO show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the Covid-19 pandemic, described as "excess...

The response came after The New York Times published an article titled - India Is Stalling the WHO's Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Tol...

In a statement, the ministry said the study provided estimates of all cause excess mortality for a number of countries based on a mathemati...

The study published on Wednesday found that deaths related to hot temperatures increased in all regions from 2000 to 2019, indicating that ...

In an official release, the ministry slammed a renowned international magazine for publishing an article that claimed that "India has suffe...

According to the analysis in the study “Estimation of total mortality due to Covid-19”, the US and India together may have 7.7 lakh more de...

“Vital registration systems that record births and deaths are unrivaled health surveillance tools that are particularly valuable in respond...