Meanwhile to manufacture additional quantities of the vaccine and to ensure the continuance of the manufacturing and the supply of all othe...

"The health authorities need to be vigilant. The Kerala mode of containment and contact tracing is praiseworthy and the prompt diagnosis ma...

Smallpox has a cousin named monkeypox and is extremely rare. It has been found among the people in the United States, and a case was report...

Experts are wondering that how can a virus that was limited to a certain area for decades has suddenly become a globe-trotting threat.

Most children and adults with healthy immune systems are likely to dodge severe illness, experts. But there are two high-risk groups.

Hester Biosciences Ltd., incorporated in the year 1987, is a Small Cap company (having a market cap of Rs 2319.82 Crore) operating in Agric...

The Centre, which said it expects to inoculate all Indians by the end of the year, has to respond to the questions raised by the court in t...

Commenting on the safety and efficacy of the vaccines, he said, "The paradox is that countries across the globe are asking us for access to...

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday described the COVID-19 vaccines as 'Sanjivani' in the fight against the infectious disease ...

When asked about the increasing numbers in India, he said “as we open up economic activity, we expect more cases to come up. But the person...

Speaking in Geneva, the WHO executive director said that India led the world in the eradication of two silent killers - Small Pox and Polio...

The executive director of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Michael Ryan, said India, the world's second most populous country, has a tr...

Vardhan said that most of what is taken to be modern medicine had come back to India through the "American route" after being first transla...

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

Using conventional techniques like spraying of insecticides, repellants, fogging and other chemicals to curtail the growth of mosquitoes no...

Disruptive technologies like analytics and big data can enable real-time-surveillance of disease outbreaks in India.

Despite over 8% GDP growth for past four years, infant mortality rate dropped marginally from 58 in 2004 to 54 in 2008.