India ranks shamefully low in a new report that put countries according to how successfully they managed to introduce pictorial health warnings on tobacco packets — a proven strategy that deters peopl

In a major break through scientists have for the first time used DNA sequencing to effectively track the spread of, and ultimately contain, an outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (

Call it a dengue effect: while the price of the goat milk has reached `150/kg, papaya’s demand has gone up too.

Now an advanced technology, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT), can help repairing and healing previously untreatable and hopeless cases of foot ulcers.

New vaccines and drug treatments that are urgently needed for bacterial meningitis, a devastating disease which kills or maims around a fifth of people who contract it, are not keeping pace with the r

Life Insurance Corpor-ation of India (LIC) invested heavily in Indian Tobacco Company (ITC) and other tobacco companies, including smokeless tobacco during the year 2011, a RTI by the Voluntary Associ

India may be close to becoming diabetes capital of the world but a recent survey has revealed that awareness levels in Indians regarding the disease is low.

Here’s good news: the infant mortality rate (IMR) has further dropped by three points from 47 to 44 infants deaths per 1,000 live births during 2011.

Here is a good news, the infant morality rate (IMR) has further dropped by three points from 47 to 44 infants deaths per 1,000 live births during 2011.

According to the recent data by the registrar g

The proposed Mental Healthcare Bill 2012 does not seem to have not gone down well with the disability rights group, who have strongly objected to certain provisions of the draft bill.