India is a leader in delivering healthcare interventions with fairness. Union Health Minister JP Nadda highlighted this at the World Health...

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The ongoing parliamentary session addressing the 33% Women's Reservation Act underscores its profound economic and social advantages. Studi...

India has achieved a remarkable reduction in maternal deaths, dropping from 508 to 116 per lakh livebirths since 1990. This progress exceed...

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Mississippi has declared a public health emergency due to a soaring infant mortality rate, nearly double the national average, highlighting...

The Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), which is widely accepted as a crude indicator of the overall health scenario of a country or a region, is ...

"We have made a definite progress in the health sector, but many things are still required to be done," Nadda said.

The warning comes weeks after UNICEF revealed that one in every 21 children being born in India is dying before reaching their fifth birthd...

The birth rate as well as the infant mortality rate in the national capital have witnessed a marginal dip as against last year, Deputy Chie...

The government through its rural health workers would identify the high risk mothers and provide special attention towards health.

"At this current rate of decline it seems it will be difficult for India to reach the target of less than 39 per 1,000 live births by the e...

In India, IMR has declined from 57 per 1,000 live births in 2006 to 42 per 1,000 live births in 2012.

Gujarat has fared worse than the national average in achieving decline in Total Fertility Rate and Maternal Mortality Rate.

India's infant mortality rate of 47 per thousand live births is worse than its neighbouring countries like Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh,...

Between 2009 and 2010, the infant mortality rate has increased 18.5%, from 18.96 per thousand to 22.47 per thousand.