Six months after the launch of ‘miracle’ drug bedaquiline — the most effective treatment for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis — the India...

World Health Organisation (WHO) has released a report on air pollution, Titled as " Ambient air pollution: A global assessment of exp...

In view of the rising number of cases and reported deaths due to of Scrub Typhus in Himachal Pradesh, Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister of He...

The government will soon launch Mission Parivar Vikas to improve family planning services in seven states where the combined total fertili...

Ahead of the U.N. General Assembly, The Lancet has published a new series of papers on maternal health which reveal that while progress ha...

With India toughening its stand on surrogacy, evident in the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill 2016 which the Cabinet cleared last month, Camb...

A landmark report by the United Nations High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines has called for delinking drug prices from research and dev...

The Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers welfare has declared India free from...

The World Health Organisation has certified that Sri Lanka is a malaria-free nation. 

In a bid to eradicate Leprosy from India, Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry has launched the biggest Leprosy Case Detection Campaig...

Indian researchers have made a major discovery by understanding the mechanisms by which preterm births (between 28 and 32 weeks of gestati...

According to a study, India, China, Pakistan and Bangladesh are vulnerable to Zika virus.

The National Health Accounts (NHA) Estimates   data for the financial year 2013-14 was recently released. The data was released by the Hea...

The Union Cabinet has given its approval for introduction of the “Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016”. Once passed, the new legislation wil...

NPPA has fixed/revised ceiling prices of 22 scheduled formulations of Schedule-I under Drugs (Price Control) Amendment Order, 2016 and ret...