Over 4,000 cases of refusal of polio vaccination have been recorded in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, officials said.

PM Nawaz Sharif has set up a National Routine Immunisation Committee of the federal cabinet to prepare a strategy to permanently eradicate ...

A similar technical support was also committed to Afghanistan for supporting polio eradication programme, besides providing micro level pla...

The target of the SIAD campaign, which had to be held in the high-risk union councils of 54 districts, was to vaccinate 8.5 million childre...

The World Health Organisation in its progress report held Pakistan responsible for failing to curb the surge in polio cases.

Vardhan said that an email repository will be built up for establishing connectivity between govt & all doctors in the country to help figh...

The newly CIA policy mandates that it won't use vaccination programmes as part of its spy operations, according to senior Obama administrat...

Advani also quotes Microsoft founder Bill Gates who has praised Vardhan, a doctor by profession, for his achievement.

The pulse polio programme was conceived and initiated in Delhi by Vardhan during his tenure as Health Minister in the BJP govt, between 199...

The injured have been shifted to the city hospital, some 20 kilometres away from the scene of incident.

World Health Organisation appreciated the successful implementation of health programmes, particularly anti-polio and immunisation campaign...

The Vice President Hamid Ansari noted with concern that more than 10 million persons in India are with locomotor disabilities.

On the positive front, India continued its polio-free run for second consecutive year and inched closer to polio free status in 2014.

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday said that Indian IT companies will be affected by the global economic slowdown but will continue...

Bill Gates met Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss and discussed the polio eradication programme in the country for which his foundatio...

Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Panabaka Lakshmi laid foundation for an Ayurvedic centre for research on vector cause...

Doctors, health entrepreneurs and activists Friday welcomed an increased allocation for the health sector in the budget but said "the desig...