Prolonged breast-feeding is widely believed to protect infants against developing eczema and other allergic diseases. But a new study has found no evidence for the belief.

Scientists have made a promising advance for controlling dengue fever, a tropical disease spread by mosquito bites.

KOKRAJHAR: The Japanese Encephalitis which has been spreading in a rapid manner has claimed the lives of seven people since July 13 in Kokrajhar district. Several patients have been admitted at RN Brahma Civil Hospital and many others have been referred to Bongaigaon for better treatment.

President Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Sadako Ogata and Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates recently announced a strategic partnership to ensure continue

Flood situation in southwestern Satkhira district remained unchanged Saturday with waterborne diseases spreading fast in the worst affected areas of Kolaroa upazila.

Hand, foot and mouth disease, a dangerous intestinal virus, has killed 81 children in Vietnam this year, prompting the prime minister to order ministries and agencies to redouble efforts to stop it

Oral vaccines have played huge part in the global battle to wipe out polio. When the WHO endorsed the goal of eradicating polio in 1988, some 350,000 children in 125 countries were being paralysed by the virus that caused the disease. That number has dropped precipitously and there were only about 1,000 cases of polio across the world last year.

Non-governmental organizations have to play a key role in the promotion of rural health care, especially at a time when the State is faced with an increase in the number of various lifestyle disease cases, said Prof P.J.Kurien, Congress(I) chief whip in the Rajya Sabha.

The government is drawing up a five-year health plan with focus on strengthening rural health care and bringing down the death rate of newborns and their mothers.