Health experts called the new technology on innovative low-cost diabetes diagnostic kits an important breakthrough for the 60 million patients and 70 million pre-diabetics in India.

In an interesting development, the results from the first phase trial on Ebola vaccine suggest that the new vaccine is safe and provokes an immune response.

As India deals with the international outbreak of swine flu, there is another silent war that is raging on to contain Ebola.

India’s maternal mortality rate has further dropped to 167 per one lakh live births, an indication that India will be able to achieve Millennium Development Goal 5 concerning maternal deaths — a fe

In evidence revealing that tamiflu is an effective medicine, results published in the Lancet have indicated that oseltamivir (tamiflu) significantly reduces the risk of influenza complications requ

Sending alarm bells ringing for India, a rare respiratory virus called enterovirus D68 (EV-D68), one of non-polio enteroviruses may be emerging among children where the polio viruses are no longer

Here is good news: vaccines to cure deadly Ebola will be available by the end of this year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.

Bedaquiline is in use in US and EU against multi-drug-resistant strains

Days after the Prime Minister stepped-in directing the Cabinet Secretary to assess country’s preparedness to tackle Ebola, the Union health ministry has beefed up preparations to keep the virus at

Even as deadly Ebola continues to spread its wings, pharmaceutical companies developing the vaccines are committed to ramp up production capacity for millions of doses to be available in 2015.

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