Chandigarh, Aug 2 (IANS) Almost two years after an HIV-positive woman was allegedly sexually abused by staff members of a leading hospital and the state AIDS control society, the ...More

New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Shivi Dua, a computer software professional, switched professions when her daughter was diagnosed with asthma in 2000. She started practising Reiki -- and ...More

Panaji, Aug 1 (IANS) In a damage control move, after the state nodal officer for swine flu Friday publicly accused the state government of depriving him of funds to tackle influen...More

New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) Sixteen new cases of swine flu, including 11 children, were reported Friday, taking the total number of people infected with the virus to 525 in India, h...More

New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) There were an estimated 2.3 million people living with HIV in India in 2007, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad informed the Rajya Sabha Friday. ...More

Bhopal, July 31 (IANS) A court here Friday ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to arrest former Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson and produce him without delay,...More

Panaji, July 31 (IANS) Even as the number of swine flu cases in Goa reached six, the state health department's mechanism to combat swine flu was thrown into turmoil Friday after t...More

New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) Commemorating 30 years of freedom from smallpox, the World Health Organization (WHO) Friday said it was the greatest achievement in public health in the ...More

Chandigarh, July 31(IANS) Punjabis and rich food are not an unusual combination. But the Punjab government has asked the centre to spare more funds for food so that children in go...More

Ahmedabad, July 31 (IANS) About 4,800 students from government-run medical colleges across Gujarat Friday observed a day's strike in support of resident doctors who are on strike ...More

Chandigarh, July 31 (IANS) A 17-year-old resident of neighbouring Mohali town tested positive for the influenza A (H1N1) virus and has been admitted to a Chandigarh hospital, heal...More

Chandigarh, July 31 (IANS) A city-based NGO Friday opened a drop-in-centre here to help improve the quality of sex workers. 'This drop-in-centre is just ...More

New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) India continues to report fresh swine flu cases with 11 people including six children being detected with the virus Thursday, taking the total number to ...More

Chennai, July 30 (IANS) Apollo Hospitals and Enterprises Ltd said Thursday it planned to open four more children's speciality hospitals including one perhaps in Nigeria, said a co...More

New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) India has not yet stopped swine flu tests and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here has also been equipped to conduct tests for influe...More