A severe measles outbreak in Bangladesh has claimed over 500 lives, predominantly young children, with over 60,000 suspected cases reported...

The WHO said new projections indicate that in a worst-case scenario, 769,000 people could die of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa this year as...

Twenty-seven years ago, a 13-member team established the first and only friendly contact with the Sentinelese which had a young woman anthr...

In 1991, a 13-member team met the reclusive Sentinelese tribe on their shores. The tribesmen, apparently, were curious about young anthropo...

One of the biggest humanitarian crisis in recent times, the UN body said that not a single agency or government of Bangladesh has the capac...

Increasingly — as evident in India, the US, and even in Europe — nationalism is coming to be identified with one religious or racial or eth...

Countries like China & Bangladesh have fared much better compared to India in dealing with infectious diseases like tuberculosis and measle...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $1 bn for projects in India out of $13.1 bn grants for global health, as of January this ...

India’s inability to stamp out polio has raised serious fears that the virus causing the crippling disease might never be eradicated.