GURUGRAM: The health department has vaccinated 3,500 children in the entire district under the Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) drive, thus achieving a target of 100 per cent.

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The data was brought out by a Right to Information query filed by activist Chetan Kothari.

The Chandigarh health department is also approaching the UT police so that one constable accompanies every team during the vaccination drive.

PATNA: The state government will launch measles rubella (MR) vaccination campaign in September this year. The central government had launched it in August last year.

Jaipur: From March, children of the state will get a shield to protect themselves from fatal pneumococcal pneumonia.

Junk food can make the body's defences more aggressive in the long term, according to a study which found that the immune system reacts similarly to a high fat and high calorie diet as to a bacteri

Clerics in Patna signing vaccination pledges, camps after sunset for children of migrant workers in Maharashtra, boat clinics in Assam taking the booster shot to remote locations

Cancer of the oral cavity is more prevalent among men in rural areas and lung cancer is more prevalent among males in urban areas.

The new vaccine was found to have given a longer immunity from typhoid than older vaccines and it required fewer doses for childhood immunisation.