Death toll in Tharparkar from drought continued to go up as a total of 59 children had so far been a victim of acute starvation.

Making malaria vaccine available for routine use will be a major milestone, researchers say

Experts say the world's first malaria vaccine could be approved for use in 2015.

Alittle girl balances a bag of donated rice on her head as she begs for her family of eight. Other children play in fetid, trash-clogged pools of water.

The figures say it all. As many as 206,000 children under the age of five die due to diarrhoea every year.

A new report by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has rightly called for a ban on junk food in and around schools.

Deadly Japanese encephalitis has so far taken the lives of 75 people since its breakout in the eastern part of the state, officials of the National Health Mission, said on Sunday.

DEHRADUN: To curb malnutrition in Haridwar, the district administration has set up a number of health camps, in which over 3087 children in rural areas have been screened in the last two months.

More than 1.42 lakh children under the age of five year are being targeted in a diarrhoea prevention campaign that is going to be taken up by the Public Health Department and the Integrated Child D