PATNA: CM Jitan Ram Manjhi has said the state government would take support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for complete eradication of kala-azar.

Latest estimates announced on Friday have revealed some worrying findings about the growing burden of cancer in India.

The latest figures published in the British medical journal The Lancet show that around one million new cancer cases are being diagnosed in India each year, projected to nearly double to 1.7 million new cases in 2035.

About 1000 tuberculosis ( TB) patients are dying every day in our country and we are also generating 5000 patients daily,” District nodal officer Dr Vijay Chhajlani said here on Tuesday.

The survey points out that the rural-urban divide is highest in Assam for infant mortality rate

Even as infant and maternal mortality rates dropped significantly in nine states, which account for half the country’s population, the disparity between these rates in urban and rural areas as well as between different states hasn’t decreased, according to the Annual Health Survey (2012-13) released by the Office of Registrar General & Census Commissioner.

ALLAHABAD: With an aim to set up a quality assurance system in state health facilities, NRHM authorities will organize a two-day workshop on January 27 and 28 in Lucknow for district women hospital

Friday, January 03, 2014 - Islamabad—Islamabad Capital Territory Administration on Thursday launched mobile health services for the remote rural areas of Islamabad.

Social activist Jacqueline Lundquist tells Madhur Tankha that “in the U.S., people get drinking water even in their bathrooms”

Jacqueline Lundquist, a social activist and the wife of the former United States Ambassador to India Richard Celeste, is now on an ambitious mission to provide unadulterated water to people living across the country, especially in rural areas.

Project director of Jharkhand Rural Health Mission (JRHM), Dr Manish Ranjan has issued notice to all district civil surgeons in the state asking them to launch awareness campaigns underlining the p