Lucknow, Aug 27 (IANS) Sales of emergency contraceptive pills have shot up nearly 40 percent in the past six months in this city, says the Chemists and Drug Association (CDA). A m...More

New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Forget about long queues and fear of contracting the H1N1 virus while waiting outside the screening centre -- a private lab Thursday announced that it wou...More

New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) A birth certificate at the click of a mouse? It's quite likely. The health ministry has started brainstorming with Nandan Nilekani - the man tasked with I...More

New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) India Thursday said that it was open to the idea of allowing the 'restricted sale' of swine flu drug Tamiflu in the market, but only if the situation dema...More

Bangalore, Aug 27 (IANS) Right from launching a web site dedicated to informing people about swine flu to screening children at schools, Bangaloreans seem to be taking no chances,...More

Lucknow, August 26 (IANS) Eight fresh cases in the state have taken the Uttar Pradesh count of the people infected with swine flu to 61, an official said Wednesday. ...More

New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) Nine more people succumbed to influenza A (H1N1) virus Wednesday, taking the total number of swine flu deaths in the country since Aug 3 to 75. ...More

New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) The national capital Wednesday reported 30 new swine flu cases, among them eight children, said Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia. ...More

New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) India should give patents to improved variants of existing medicines as it will help people access variety of drugs at a competitive price, said a new stu...More

Gurgaon, Aug 26 (IANS) A rare, multiple cardiovascular surgery that lasted eight hours was successfully performed in the national capital region (NCR) on a 33-year-old woman who w...More

Pune/Mumbai, Aug 26 (IANS) India reported two more swine flu deaths Wednesday with a 28-year-old businessman in Mumbai and a 35-year-old woman in Pune succumbing to the H1N1 viral...More

New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) A pair of scissors was left in a women's abdomen at an Orissa hospital during a surgery. Six years later after a lot of pain and expenses, she has finally...More

Mumbai, Aug 26 (IANS) Mumbai recorded its seventh H1N1 casualty Wednesday with a 28-year-old businessman dying at the private Hiranandani Hospital here, according to an official. ...More

Lucknow, Aug 26 (IANS) Police and health officials Wednesday continued raiding hospitals and pathology labs across Uttar Pradesh, four days after the arrest of six men here in con...More

Gandhinagar, Aug 26 (IANS) The Gujarat government has decided to purchase 50 ventilator machines to be installed at government hospitals in small towns for the critically ill swin...More