India may be an economic success story. But a Save the Children study says around a quarter of Indian children in the 0-6 age group go without food every day.

And nearly 30 per cent of Indian familie

New Zealand health authorities on Tuesday admitted they overreacted to an influenza scare on a flight from Japan by quarantining the plane on the tarmac at Auckland airport for several hours.

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A teenager who gorged on chocolates and junk food is on the road to recovery from a dreaded liver disease that could have killed her, says a report.

The report comes soon after another unrelated repo

This time, when the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP) chooses the new set of pictorial warnings for tobacco products they will have to be extra careful.

With the earlier photo —

US First Lady Michelle Obama triumphed at dodgeball, a potato sack race, and tug-of-war, in a television appearance marking the second anniversary of her ‘Let's Move’ childhood fitness initiative.

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The sorry state of affairs in West Bengal's government hospitals once again came to the fore when a eight-year-old boy was injected a cat-bite antidote instead of his mother at a medical facility on T

Pakistan on Tuesday evinced interest in importing the cholera vaccine tested and introduced in India in 2009.

"We did not know about such a vaccine. Now that we do, I will inform my government about

The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Centre's response on conducting an independent inquiry into alleged illegal clinical trials of untested drugs by pharmaceutical companies in various states.

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A nine-year-old girl is making what doctors described as a remarkable recovery on Sunday, days after surgeons transplanted six of her organs in a groundbreaking medical procedure.

The surgery perfor

Over sixty school children fell sick after eating food served under the mid-day meal scheme at Government Primary School in Maddevri village under Lakhnadoun block today, police said.

Upon inspectio