The government is considering a proposal requiring prescriptions for emergency contraception pills due to concerns about misuse and health ...

At the center of the Texas medication abortion lawsuit lies mifepristone, a drug developed by Danco Laboratories, embroiled in a contentiou...

Twice as many women than men were found to have anaemia in 2021 according to The Lancet Haematology. Anaemia affected almost two billion pe...

The rising prevalence of chronic medical conditions has led to development of various advanced medical treatments, resulting in higher dema...

Strategies to overcome teenage childbearing, lack of male participation in awareness programmes, migration and lack of access to contracept...

The National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) published by the ministry on Friday said the study also showed knowledge of contraceptives was a...

The fifth survey was conducted between 2019 and 2021 in two phases. Arunachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Madhya...

The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) last year too had conducted this crowdsourcing exercise to identify the customs duty...

In 13 low-income countries, the number of modern contraceptive users has doubled since 2012 and more than 121 million unintended pregnancie...

Of the 17 states analysed in the NFHS-5 data, except for Bihar, Manipur and Meghalaya, all other states have a TFR of 2.1 or less, which im...

The Bihar shelter home horror has reminded the country how heinous its society can be with its girls.

Hypertension is the leading cause of death (smoking is second), making it the most dominant silent killer disease.

The new list of essential medicines, which comes into effect immediately, will be revised every three years as per the committee's recommen...

Drugs Technical Advisory Board's recommendations are based on studies conducted by the ICMR in India for injectable contraceptives.

According to the Gender Inequality Index (GII) India ranks 127 out of 152 countries.

India also succeeded in averting more numbers of unintended pregnancies by expending the use of contraception.

DFID has agreed to roll out a reproductive health framework project worth Rs 40 crore to address the need for family planning in Odisha.