A five-year-old girl has died of a mysterious fever while 17 other children have been admitted to hospitals in Modinagar area of this district.

The patients are showing symptoms of viral fever with r

Six specialised teams, each with a doctor, will criss-cross the Netherlands as of Thursday to carry out euthanasia at the home of patients whose own doctors refuse to do so, a pro-mercy killing group

A batch of birth control pills manufactured in India for US distribution has been recalled due to a packaging error that could make the pills ineffective, US health authorities said on Monday.

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India, which has been polio-free for over a year now, was on Saturday taken off the list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organisation.

This announcement was made by Health Ministe

India is hoping to be taken off the list of polio endemic nations with mounting evidence to show that the transmission of the virus is at an all time low.

For the first time since November 2010, mos

Vietnam says a large ongoing outbreak of a common childhood virus could worsen this year.

The hand, foot and mouth virus has sickened more than 6,000 and killed nine children since January. They died

Altogether 1,039 people been detected as HIV positive in Kishanganj district, a district AIDS control committee member said on Saturday.

"Out of the figure available there are 43 couple who have test

A collodion baby -- a rare inherited skin disorder -- has been born in Bhopal. Affected babies are born in a collodion membrane, a shiny waxy outer layer over the skin.

The disorder, lamellar ichthyo

An Indian woman has been rewarded for her 'bold' decision to leave her marital home within days of the wedding to protest the lack of a toilet in the household, an official said on Thursday.

Anita Na

India's battle against tuberculosis (TB) now has a superhero with a difference -- pot-bellied Bulgam Bhai with furrowed brows and thick moustache who will ask people 'Has it been two weeks?'.

"The cr