Negotiators for producers and state attorneys-general in US held secret talks in recent weeks to try to craft a new tobacco settlement proposal, said state officials and lawyers familiar with the

Despite the tremendous stride made over the past two decades in immunisation of infants against the "big six" diseases , measles remains the number one vaccine-preventable killer of children under

Driven largely by prosperity and freedom, millions of women throughout the developed world are having fewer children than ever before. They stay in school longer, put more emphasis on work and marry

After a sojourn in Washington, DC, the tobacco industry is now back in the courts. How well-manned are its defences? : a

A stagnant air pattern, oppressive summer heat and urban pollution formed a smog cocktail over greater Tokyo which is suspected of sickening hundreds of school children, the Tokyo government said on

Over 12,000 gastroenteritis cases, including over 6,000 among children, were reported in various hospitals of Delhi this year, but the Health Ministry informed Rajya Sabha that no significant

Union Health Minister Dalit Ezhilmalai told Parliament on Friday that 28 children had died of acute renal failure in April and May this year in

The United Nations Population Fund will implement the biggest country programme in India with a support of $100 millions to the Population and Development programmes of the Union Ministry of Health

The state governmetn was making all-out efforts to provide better and improved services to the people of Punjab and for this purpose Rs 126 crore had been earmarked

A group of Ugnadan elders credited with helping reduce the practice of female genital mutilation and the head of Jamaica's family planning board have been jointly awarded the 1998 UN population