India's maternal health has seen a remarkable transformation, with maternal deaths having fallen significantly, a global achievement. This ...

Amjad Khan's son, Shadaab Khan, recently revealed that the film industry owed his late father Rs 1.27 crore at the time of his death in 199...

A study led by the International Institute for Population Sciences identified a correlation between air pollution and increased mortality r...

"India has taken important steps to improve the quality of care during labour and childbirth, leading to reductions in maternal deaths. Thi...

India leads a list of 10 countries that together account for 60 per cent of global maternal deaths, stillbirths and newborn deaths, and 51 ...

Small investments in simple solutions can make a big impact in saving lives. Governments have a variety of options to decrease maternal and...

The set target of newborn mortality rate (NMR) of 24 for 2017 has been met and strides are being made to fulfil the target of stillbirth ra...

The 'Levels & Trends in Child Mortality' Report 2020 said that the number of global under-five deaths dropped to its lowest point on record...

The Unicef and WHO reported that infants not breastfed within their first hour of birth lowers their chance of survival.

India ranked below Sri Lanka (127), Bangladesh (54), Nepal (50) and Bhutan (60) but was above Pakistan, which was ranked among the lowest i...

Pakistan is the worst with 45.6 newborn deaths per 1,000 live births, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) which has, f...

According to the ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW), about 26 million babies are born in India annually, of which 730,000 die wi...

Nearly 35 per cent of the cases in these 17 years were stillborn, 29 per cent were born alive and 36 per cent were born before the period o...

Nearly 7,400 newborns die every day in the WHO South-East Asia Region (SEARO) causing untold misery to mothers and families.

'Of the estimated 6.3 million deaths of children under the age of five in 2013, complications from pre-term births accounted for nearly 1.1...

Flanked by Bill Gates and representatives of WHO and UNICEF and USAID, Harsh Vardhan unveiled the India Newborn Action Plan (INAP).

More than one in five children who die within four weeks of birth is an Indian despite improvements in child mortality rates worldwide, the...