Doctors highlight 11 diseases that may cause significant issues by 2025, including a potential resurgence of Covid-19 and the emergence of ...

In Honduras, where 10,000 people are known to be sickened by dengue each year, Doctors Without Borders is partnering with the mosquito prog...

India’s courts were forced to intervene earlier this year to address the dangerous inequities in hospital oxygen supplies, while state and ...

The NHM targets include reducing MMR to 1/1,000 live births, reducing IMR to 25/1,000 live births, reducing TFR to 2.1, bringing down preva...

The country is still in the ascending limb of the epidemic, said Prof D Prabhakaran, Director, Centre for Control of Chronic Conditions (CC...

Talking to PTI, chairman of the task force, Sanjay Oak, said they have asked the government to gear up for mitigation of malaria and dengue...

Some mild flu-like symptoms of the disease include headache, vomiting and sensitivity to light.

Mission Indradhanush, launched on December 25, 2014, aims at raising vaccination coverage in 201 districts of the country where 50% childre...

London, Dec 20 (IANS) Change in weather patterns, brought on by the 'Godzilla' El Nino of 2015 -- one of the strongest on record, fuelled t...

The mosquito-borne disease can be controlled only by the participation of the community as a whole, not just by an individual or a group.

The device repels mosquitoes by releasing a vapour form of insecticide through a battery-powered fan, forming an insecticide "cloud".

Climate change poses a threat to human health and safety, but children are uniquely vulnerable, especially in the world's poorest countries.

The surge in forex trading volumes in the country could generate about $370 mn in additional revenue for the Indian exchequer, which can be...

Too little allocated for poverty eradication, too little spent, lag in targets.

Given the state of affairs, the Economic Survey’s recommendations on healthcare might sound like truisms. But then, the truth does need to ...

The Centre is open to assistance to states grappling with chikungunya although it denies that the viral infection has claimed 128 lives in ...

UPA Government has allocated a whopping Rs 40,000 crore for various social development schemes like Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, National Rural He...