To save the children from the scourge of killer encephalitis the state government has decided to start a massive vaccination programme in which children up to 15 years of age would be vaccinated wi

Faced with opposition from public health activists, the health ministry is set to intervene and may soon urge the finance ministry to distance itself from an upcoming international conference in Ne

Prices of branded drugs available in India should be brought down closer to the prices of their generic alternatives, requests a letter from the Indian Medical Association (IMA) addressed to the un

Health minister JP Nadda on Thursday launched a campaign called HealthifyIndia, which aimed to help a million Indians to adopt better practices for a better life.

Around 11% of the people in Delhi are suffering from asthma the government said on Tuesday while attributing its causes to smoking and air pollution.

The anti-tobacco health advisory , considered an irritant by most filmmakers, could be on its way out.

The Union health ministry’s decision to defer the implementation of a notification for increasing the size of pictorial health warning on cigarette packets and various other tobacco products has no

The Health Ministry today postponed indefinitely the enforcement of tougher anti-tobacco pack warnings it had notified in October last year for implementation from April 1 this year.

With number of swine flu cases crossing 27,880, government on Tuesday said the virus would continue to circulate though no mutation was taking place.

The Centre today rejected a research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US, which says the H1N1 virus responsible for over 1,500 deaths since late last December has a new and more