An impending crisis looms over India's supply of injectable poliomyelitis vaccine (IPV) as French drugmaker Sanofi has shut down its manufa...

India conducts one nationwide NID, commonly known as the pulse polio immunisation programme, and two sub-national immunization days every y...

"The booth activity will be followed by house-to-house surveillance (mop-up rounds) over the next two to five days to identify and vaccinat...

The executive director of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Michael Ryan, said India, the world's second most populous country, has a tr...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) said the risk of children getting vaccine derived polio...

At least three batches of polio vaccines containing 1.5 lakh vials have been found contaminated with type 2 polio virus. The health ministr...

WHO said that India became the first country globally to introduce fractional doses of IPV in childhood immunisation programme in eight sta...

The drive would be conducted here and in parts of Ranga Reddy with the main objective to cover areas from where the water was coming into t...

Health Ministry said the detected polio virus strain, which was was found in a sewage sample collected near the Secunderabad railway statio...

Referring to the eradication of polio from the country, Nadda said, it was important "To do polio to TB".

Vaccines against rotavirus, rubella and polio (injectable) will collectively expedite India's progress on meeting the Millennium Developmen...

India announced it would be mandatory for all persons - adults or children - travelling to the country from Pakistan to take an Oral Polio ...

On the positive front, India continued its polio-free run for second consecutive year and inched closer to polio free status in 2014.

A five-month-old child from the Murshidabad district of West Bengal has got infected with the virus after taking the oral polio vaccine.

Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said Government would provide universal healthcare in the 12th Plan.

India, which has been polio-free for over a year now, was today taken off the list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organisat...

A significant fall in infant mortality rates, the longest polio-free period in the country, lowest decadal growth of population in 90 years...