About 33.6% of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) (DALYs) could be attributed to ambient air pollution, 25.8% to household air pollution and 21% to smoking.

Disability adjusted life years or DALYs are years of healthy life lost to premature death and suffering.

Task force set up on Monday to develop early warning system for air pollution in Delhi-NCR

Linda-Gail Bekker, president of the International AIDS Society and lead author of the Commission’s report, told The Indian Express, that current approaches to HIV control were not adequate to conta

As many as 126 cases of dengue have been reported from Bilaspur while 52 in Parwanoo in Solan, Joint Director, Directorate of Health Services, Dr. Ashok Kumar Gupta said.

NEW DELHI/ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Clearing the air on the origin of Nipah outbreak in Kerala, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has confirmed that fruit bats were the primary source of the vir

KOZHIKODE: Health minister K K Shailaja declared Kozhikode and Malappuram districts Nipah-free at a function organized by state health department at New Nalanda auditorium here on Sunday.

Chikungunya spreads round the year and is as prevalent as dengue, NIV finds after redefining symptoms

NEW DELHI: In the wake of Nipah virus cases in Kerala, the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has written to the Queensland government in Australia asking it to provide an antibody develope

NEW DELHI: Public health experts from different parts of the country have called on the Centre to include a mitigation and prevention strategy for the impacts of air pollution on health in the Nati