New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) There is an urgent need to spread awareness about cardiovascular diseases like stroke and diabetes, Minister of State for Health Dinesh Trivedi said here...More

Ranchi, March 12 (IANS) The child mortality rate in Jharkhand has fallen steeply over the last nine years, Health Minister Baijnath Ram said here Friday. 'T...More

New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) The government will fully reimburse families living below the poverty line (BPL) for treatment of heart and kidney diseases, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi ...More

Jaipur, March 12 (IANS) Amputees in Sri Lanka, who lost their limbs during the prolonged civil war in the country, will now be able to lead a near normal life with the help of the ...More

Bhopal, March 8 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh government Monday admitted in the state assembly that on an average 30,000 children die of various diseases in the state every year. ...More

New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) Treating cancer with just one injection? It may sound unbelievable, but an Indian medical institute is soon to start human trials to treat cancer in six w...More

Kolkata, March 6 (IANS) Members of a Congress-Trinamool Congress-led employees' union staged a protest at the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital Saturday and demanded better med...More

Kolkata, March 5 (IANS) Ayesha Ahmed, the seven-year-old Pakistani girl from Karachi who underwent a heart bypass surgery here last week, has been discharged from the hospital, he...More

Shillong, March 5 (IANS) In order to encourage private investors to set up medical institutes in the northeastern region, the central government Friday announced special concession...More

Shillong, March 5 (IANS) United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi Friday inaugurated the first postgraduate medical institute in northeast India here and stressed...More

New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) Assam in India's northeast has the country's highest rate of maternal mortality, as per the latest official data. According to experts, insurgency which a...More

New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Wednesday initiated a campaign to check mosquito-borne diseases like dengue, chikunguniya and malaria in time for...More

Shimla, March 3 (IANS) As many as 220 people in the Himachal Pradesh capital have tested positive for Hepatitis E in the past two months, state Health Minister Rajeev Bindal said W...More

Shimla, March 3 (IANS) A new swine flu case has been reported in Himachal Pradesh after a gap of over a month, a health department official said here Wednesday. ...More

New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) With the board examinations beginning next week, Class 10 and 12 students are a tense lot, busy with last-minute preparations. And the Central Board of Sec...More