Almost 20,000 people die every year of rabies in India, making it the country with highest rabies fatalities in Asia and the second highest in the world, according to Association for Prevention and Co

Australian officials were on Saturday working to isolate potential victims after uncovering two more cases of the deadly horse-borne Hendra virus, which has erupted in a second state.

Spread to human

Nearly 250 to 300 angry demonstrators gathered in front of the gates of the B.C. Roy Hospital for Children in the eastern part of the city to protest over the death of three children this morning.

Six people have died of cholera while 56 have been hospitalised with diarrhoea in the tribal hamlets of Kerala's hilly Wayanad district, a legislator said on Wednesday.

The issue was raised in the Ke

In a rare case, a 38-year-old mother who has been brain dead for four months has given birth to a baby boy in Saudi Arabia’s eastern Al Khobar province.

A Gulf News report said that the baby boy was

Women around the world feel stressed and pressed for time, but women in emerging markets are more stressed than their sisters in developed nations - and Indian women say they are the most stressed of

A 55-year-old patient was tonight burnt alive after an oxygen cylinder blasted at the ICU room in government PGIMER hospital here, police said.

"Kindar Singh, a cancer patient, was burnt alive after

Leaking information on the health of an individual may earn a term in prison for six months and also a fine up to Rs one lakh.

According to the new Privacy Bill, 2011, which is slated to be tabled in

The mystery disease that has rocked Bihar and killed six more children by Thursday morning, has at last been identified. It is encephalitis, an official on Thursday said. The latest deaths have pushed

A medical facility in Singapore offering fertility procedures has been fined after a different person's sperm was used in an in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) process, Channel NewsAsia reported.

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