New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) Health ministers from 11 Asian countries, including India, and World Health Organisation (WHO) experts are set to meet in Nepal in September to discuss sw...More

Bhubaneswar, Aug 31 (IANS) A team of medical experts Monday visited the Kalahandi district of Orissa to take stock of the situation after an outbreak of diarrhoea killed 24 people...More

Bangalore, Aug 31 (IANS) It is not hard to find mask-wearing children in Bangalore heading to schools or young women holding their handkerchiefs and dupattas tight on their face. ...More

Chandigarh, Aug 30 (IANS) Two more positive cases of influenza A (H1N1) virus were reported here Sunday, health officials said. H.C. Gera, union territor...More

New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) Six people died Sunday due to swine flu, including four in the worst-hit Maharashtra and one each in Gujarat and Kerala, taking India's toll to 93, health...More

New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) An exaggerated importance to brands, pressure to perform and peer pressure have pushed up suicide rate amongst adolescents today - a case in point being t...More

Kolkata, Aug 30 (IANS) The Unicef has roped in West Bengal's matinee idol Prosenjit Chatterjee to help promote messages for decreasing child mortality. '...More

Lucknow, Aug 30 (IANS) More than a week after police busted a massive racket in adulterated blood in Uttar Pradesh, another report on the quality of blood seized reveals that it w...More

Chandigarh, Aug 30 (IANS) Three new swine flu cases -- an NRI and two teenage boys -- have been reported here, taking the number of people infected with the H1N1 virus in this cit...More

New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) Do you sit and perform complicated yoga postures day after day at home with only TV as your instructor? It may be time to turn the idiot box off, as exper...More

Patna, Aug 30 (IANS) Thirty two patients admitted to the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) have died amid a strike by junior doctors that entered its fourth day Sunday, au...More

On a frightful Friday evening in mid-August when stormy winds blew away a portion of the roof at Delhi Airport, 41-year-old Preetha Nair was stuck at the wheels for four hours, ...More

New Delhi, Aug 29 (IANS) A three-day-old boy born with his heart outside the chest -- 'a rarest of rare defects' -- continued to battle for life at the All India Institute of Medi...More

Patna, Aug 29 (IANS) Twenty-one patients in the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) have died after a strike by junior doctors that entered its third day Saturday, authoriti...More

Bangalore, Aug 29 (IANS) Most swine flu deaths in Karnataka - where the casualty figures are second only to that of Maharashtra - have taken place in Bangalore, and experts say on...More