India has significantly reduced the percentage of zero-dose children and achieved remarkable progress in maternal and child health. This su...

India ranked second globally in 2023 for children not receiving vaccines. Efforts needed to identify and immunize unvaccinated children. WH...

Researchers from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi investigated previously overlooked crit...

A relook at the survey data was necessitated by instances of repeated measles outbreaks after the COVID-19 pandemic, the report by (by Rema...

UNICEF's global flagship report "The State of the World's Children 2023: For Every Child, Vaccination" emphasizes the significance of child...

A fourth shot of a Covid preventive is unwarranted at the moment as most people in the country are yet to receive a third dose and there is...

With this, the city has recorded 527 cases and nine deaths due to the viral disease so far this year. As per a release issued by the civic ...

From the time countries scrambled to protect their population — first through lockdowns and isolation and then through unprecedented, large...

“I feel that masks have to be made compulsory at least in Bengaluru. Till now, there were no fines. We may have to think about imposing fin...

Mumbai's slum colony of Dharavi, once a coronavirus hotspot and a challenge for municipal authorities in implementing containment measures,...

"We can vaccinate three lakh people daily. Currently, 1-1.5 lakh people are being vaccinated on a daily basis. We can increase the capacity...

Data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UN children's agency UNICEF showed that 23 million children missed out on basic child...

The meeting, starting on Friday, is the first between G7 leaders since the coronavirus pandemic and the UK as president of the summit has m...

Adar Poonawalla, Founder and CEO, SII said on Saturday that SII is in the process of submitting the data for the clinical trials to the DCG...

In 2016, global deaths from measles dropped over 80% to an estimated 90,000 people from more than 550,000 deaths in 2000, according to WHO,...

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

India could see zero transmission of the crippling polio virus in the next two years, according to business magnate turned philanthropist B...