The Pakistani police were on Wednesday investigating how and why a parcel containing anthrax was sent to the Prime Minister's official residence in the capital Islamabad last month.

Fed up with his illness, a 42-year- old man on Wednesday allegedly killed his two children and later committed suicide, police said.

Santosh Alkar, a diabetic and unemployed, was found hanging at hi

Amid outrage over infant deaths in West Bengal, senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay today alleged that there is a conspiracy to blow out of proportion some of these cases in the

Bihar Health Minister Ashwini Chaube's warning to junior doctors against resorting to frequent strikes and punitive action against them has generated controversy with a section of the medicos threaten

Should gutka be categorised as a 'food product' and banned, or should it be regulated? Differences over the issue have surfaced within the health ministry, which, confused, is approaching the law mini

With six more babies dying at the Malda Sadar Hospital, the crib death toll in the hospital since Wednesday rose to 18.

Six more babies died in the Malda Sadar Hospital on Saturday.

Four babies die

With the Centre already slugging it out in court over regulation of content on Web portals, the Union health ministry appears to have hit a roadblock in its bid to block sex-determination guidance ava

With the detection of at least 30 cases, measles outbreak has been reported in remote villages of East Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh.

The worst affected villages in the district are Namchar Ba

In a bid to prevent 'unwanted pregnancy' among teenagers, the government has decided to clear the decks for advertisements of oral contraceptives in print and television media.

The advertisements wi

A recent paper published in the British Heart Journal has made a startling revelation that coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most common noninfectious disease in India, and is likely to affect over