India on Tuesday unveiled its first breakthrough vaccine for severe rotavirus diarrhoea, which kills more than 1 lakh children under five in the country every year.

Pune: A national forum on tuberculosis (TB) has been launched to raise awareness on the need for better control of condition.

State Wants Proactive Role In Monitoring Trials

Jaipur: At least one person, on an average, died every month in Rajasthan during clinical trials in the past eight years. But the state government had no clue about these trials and the related deaths.

Washington: Scientists, led by an Indian-origin researcher, have linked perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) — a chemical found in microwave popcorn bags — to cardiovascular disease.

Over 1,00,000 children, below the age of 11 months, die of diarrhoea annually in India which is the second leading killer of young children globally, after pneumonia.

Hyderabad: With only five per cent of injections used for immunisation and the remaining 95 per cent for therapeutic use, children are often subjected to unnecessary injections, say paediatricians

Two more people have died from novel coronavirus, a new strain of the virus similar to the one that caused SARS, in an outbreak in al-Ahsa region of Saudi Arabia, the deputy health minister for pub

While there has been an overall increase in gastrointestinal diseases in Goa, the state has also registered highest number of colorectal cancer -- commonly known as colon or bowel cancer -- cases i

The newly urbanized areas of the ever-expanding city have a new threat hovering over them - fluorosis.