India is likely to miss the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) related to maternal health as one such death is being reported every 10 minutes.

India recorded around 57,000 maternal deaths in 2010, w

The Mexican government declared a national animal health emergency on Monday in the face of an aggressive bird flu epidemic that has infected nearly 1.7 million poultry.

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GlaxoSmithKline was socked with $3 billion in fines by US authorities on Monday over charges it marketed drugs for unauthorized uses, held back safety data, and cheated the government's Medicaid progr

It is not just dengue that has been on the rise, paediatric wards across city hospitals are witnessing an increase in the number of pneumonia cases as well. Changes in weather affect the immunity leve

Triggering a crisis, orders from the Food Safety Commissionerate (FSC) are reaching local bodies asking health inspectors not to inspect eateries including hotels and bakeries.

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Surgeons at a city hospital have successfully repaired the sliced food pipe, wind pipe and voice box of a jeweller’s wife after her throat was slit by a chain-snatcher.

Fifty-two-year-old Ms Shanthi

Mexican doctors say they have removed a 33-pound (15-kilogram) tumor from the body of a 2-year-old child who weighed only 26 pounds (12 kilograms).

Circumcising young boys on religious grounds amounts to grievous bodily harm, a German court ruled on Tuesday in a landmark decision that the Jewish community said trampled on parents' religious right

Two girls died and at least 150 others, mostly children, took ill in a village here after consuming contaminated supply water, an official said on Wednesday.

One and a half-year-old Deepti and 6-yea

Ernakulam district has witnessed an eight-fold rise in the number of dengue cases since the commencement of this monsoon, while the number of fever cases has gone up from 12,892 in May to 16,063 in Ju