The Union Health Ministry has issued an advisory to state chief ministers, urging heightened vigilance and intensified preventive measures ...

Health authorities have confirmed two Zika virus cases in Singapore’s Woodlands neighborhood. The National Environment Agency (NEA) and Com...

Zika is an Aedes mosquito-borne viral disease like dengue and chikungunya. Though non-fatal, Zika is associated with microcephaly (a condit...

The effects of climate change in Bihar, particularly in Sher village, are leading to a rise in diseases like lymphatic filariasis. Public h...

This worrying development comes at a time when the hill state is struggling to get back to normalcy from the unprecedented ethnic strife th...

India is committed to eliminating Lymphatic filariasis by 2027, three years ahead of the global target through a multi-partner and multi-se...

Based on the observations of the central team, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan in a letter to the Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary has r...

Prior to the launching in districts, all the stakeholders will be trained by state on the revised concept, roles and responsibilities and d...

Total funds allocated by the central and state governments seem to have increased in the past few years but that's deceptive.

The Indian Medical Association recommended adopting Brazil's Zika virus awareness model to combat dengue, which has emerged as a leading ca...

Zika virus is spreading rapidly in Latin America, and Asian governments have issued advisories in a bid to contain the spread of the diseas...

The Zika virus is "spreading explosively" in the Americas and can infect upto four million people, the WHO warned yesterday.

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) urged the government to focus on systematic preventive measures towards clean environment and sani...

Researchers estimated that on average, 23 per cent of those who have not yet been infected become infected by dengue every year.

The 'wall of shame' is a novel method in which names and photos of those who defecate in the open would be pasted on a village wall.

India Inc encourages employees to volunteer for community service, giving them lessons in leadership and project management.

Nearly 600 cases of dengue have been reported so far in the country, of which a majority are from the national capital, health minister Anb...