Humane Society International (HIS)/India’s Be Cruelty Free campaign has submitted a petition signed by more than 70,000 people, supporting the proposed import ban on cosmetics tested on animals abr

44 children have died of the disease in Bihar over the past month

Dreaded Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) that has taken toll of 25 children in the last fortnight in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur continue to baffle the experts who have for the first time noticed absence

Announces "Green" Hospitals and more Public Health Institutes

Experts said that actions to curb air pollution has always been hampered by the lack of political will, irrespective of parties, to take decisions that might harm them electorally.

Companies conducting clinical trials in India will not be able to get away in case any untoward incident happens.

Pharma companies must specify whether risk involved in testing new formulations on human beings justified by benefits expected from exercise

The Supreme Court today directed the Union Health Ministry to make drug companies, which want to experiment with new formulations, to answer three queries in a format to be prepared by the technical committee.

In Delhi, 64% newborns die within the first 28 days

The National Capital had the worst Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) among the four metropolitan cities between 2010 and 2012 with 30 newborns dying for every 1,000 live births, a new report has said. A substantial 64 per cent die within the first 28 days of their birth.

Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has claimed that there is "no conclusive information" available with Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) regarding high prevalence of respiratory or other