The Treasury will allocate Rs. 150 billion for the health budget in 2014, a Health Ministry spokesman said.

Recognizing Sri Lanka's need to meet the public health demands and challenges and government's efforts to improve health sector, the World Bank has granted a US$ 200 million loan to support the cou

Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) have commonly been known as rich people's disease, but a recent study in the state reveals how the NCD caseload in the state is more in rural pockets of Warangal, E

Preliminary findings of the first ever nationwide study undertaken on childhood obesity in urban areas of Bangladesh by International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) r

Ten out of every 100 children, aged 5-18 living in Bangladesh’s urban areas, are overweight while 4 per cent obese, says a new study.

To help urban poor go to health facilities after working hours, urban primary health centres, planned under the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM), will function from noon to 8 p.m.