A parliamentary committee urges the expansion of AYUSH healthcare for cancer treatment, advocating for integrative oncology and dedicated i...

The ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) has designated snakebite cases and deaths as a 'notifiable disease' in India. This mandat...

The government said that all healthcare facilities will report each and every suspected or confirmed cases of black fungus to the city heal...

Rajasthan, Telangana have declared it an epidemic under the Epidemics Act

The court said the Policy shall be placed before it and the petitioners shall make a representation to the Committee for further processes ...

The minister said the disease so far had been reported in five states — Rajasthan, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh.

The warning was issued after the ministry reviewed representations from Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) beneficiaries regarding dif...

The regulations give officials the power to take “coercive action” against any person if he refuses to “cooperate” with the authorities. “A...

The decision comes as the government comes up with a new draft policy for the treatment of rare diseases, more than a year after it withdre...

In 2013, it was estimated that the health loss due to PM2.5 pollution in the 74 leading cites in China was 4.2 lakh premature deaths.

As per the provisions of the DPCO 2013, to control the prices of essential medicines, NPPA has fixed the prices of medicines appearing in S...

The Centre has emphasised the need for "continued surveillance especially in the vulnerable areas bordering infected countries and in areas...

Nearly nine lakh people die every year due to diseases attributable to tobacco use in India and the govt has taken a series of measures to ...

With rising cases of dengue, hospitals across Delhi continue to remain inundated with patients with long queues forming outside almost all ...

Dr Sudhir Joseph, the director of St Stephen's hospital, said 600-700 patients were treated and nearly 10 patients died in his hospital thi...

Disruptive technologies like analytics and big data can enable real-time-surveillance of disease outbreaks in India.

The death of some poultry birds reported from parts of Birbhum and South Dinajpur districts in West Bengal has a led to a Bird Flu scare in...