The Economic Survey, presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, also said that the government's spending on social services increase...

The survey also credited the increase in institutional deliveries and improvement in maternal health to better infrastructure and improved ...

Of these, the phase-three trials of Corbevax — jointly manufactured by BE, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and Dynavax in California ...

Government-owned HLL LifeCare, the official nodal agency for procuring Covid-related supplies as well as the company that sells Moods condo...

“Healthcare policy must not become beholden to “saliency bias”, where policy overweights a recent phenomenon,” believes the Chief Economic ...

The Jaccha-Baccha Survey (JABS), conducted by student volunteers in June 2019, took place in six states—Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jha...

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

Nadda was making an intervention address at the 69th session of the WHO South East Asia Regional Committee being held at Sri Lanka's capita...

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

"The probable reasons are lack of manpower in inaccessible areas, inadequate access to social determinants and limited private sector engag...

India is on track to achieve the three health sector related Millennium Development Goals adopted by the UN in 2000, Union Health and Famil...

The elimination of MNT as a public health problem means that the annual rate is less than 1 per 1000 live births.

PM said India has eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus much before the target date set for December this year and described the achieve...

He said the country needs to institutionalise a system where marginalised communities receive universal healthcare and financial protection.

"India's leadership and commitment to ending preventable child and maternal deaths has the potential to influence greatly health outcomes g...

Life expectancy has gone up by 5 years, from 62.3 years for males and 63.9 years for females in 2001-2005 to 67.3 years and 69.6 years resp...

The Global Alliance for Vaccine Immunization, cofounded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will create an advocacy group to raise $3.7...