India has become the world hub for tuberculosis.

According to the latest World Health Organi-sation (WHO) report, India leads the world with around 25 lakh TB cases, ahead of China, which reports on

Most of the working mothers have unhealthy children with problems like obesity, while kids whose moms work part time are better off, a lifestyle study by Assocham said.

As many as 56 per cent of work

With one more child dying on Thursday, the number of crib deaths at Kolkata’s Dr B.C. Roy Memorial Hospital for Children in the past 48 hours rose to 13. The hospital authorities, however, claimed the

Four more babies died at Kolkata's B.C. Roy Children's Hospital, which has witnessed a series of crib deaths, besides 12 newborns in the Burdwan Medical College, taking the death toll in two governmen

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday permitted authorities in Pakistan's Punjab province to import 5,000 bottles of an infusion from India to counter a dengue outbreak that has claimed scores

Moms-to-be, make sure that you avoid packaged foods during pregnancy, for a study says exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), a common chemical used in plastic products, could cause behavioural problems in yo

Surrounded by hundreds of stretchers and anxious patients outside the bustling OPD canteen of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here, 17-year-old Shehnaz lies under the open sky on a

The Human Development Index (HDI) in the country rose by 21 per cent, says a report while cautioning that health, nutrition and sanitation remained key challenges for India.

India Human Development R

There has been over 20 per cent decline in the number of deaths from malaria worldwide in the past decade, but the mosquito-borne disease continued to haunt India with the country witnessing over 1,10

"It is like someone called me for sweets and then engineered a cold-blooded murder," 47-year-old Lalmati said at Chhattisgarh's largest government hospital here.

She was referring to a botched catara