Twelve pregnant women have died in 10 days in the city of Jodhpur in Rajasthan, with contaminated fluids administered during child birth suspected to be the cause, reports said on Friday.

Jodhpur: Police in this Rajasthan city swung into action after the death at least 12 pregnant women from allegedly contaminated IV fluids and seized samples of the particular batch from several shops,

New Delhi: Home to 20 per cent of the world's adolescent population, India has one of the worst track records in their health and education parameters, according to a new report by the UNCIEF.

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Boston: The US today charged over 100 doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, including some of Indian-origin, with involvement in a Medicare fraud totalling USD 225 million, in one of t

New Delhi: In what could be a cause of concern for the national capital, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has found the polio virus in the city's sewage. The Delhi government is on alert and has in

Mumbai: Male circumcision can be a preventive tool against the HIV, and government should find out if it would be acceptable to the society, experts feel.

Rate of HIV infections is coming down, but

Sydney: A prominent brain surgeon in Australia has startled the medical fraternity by auctioning tickets to let people watch him perform surgeries in the operation theatre.

Apalled by such an action,

Port-au-Prince: More than 3,900 Haitians have died of cholera since the outbreak of the disease in mid-October, the country's health officials has said.

The disease has spread across all 10 provinces

Kolkata: A 'savage preference for males' leads to the killing of 7 lakh girls by their parents in the mother's womb each year in India, according to a National Human Rights Commission member.

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Wellington: A Christ church doctor has reported a case where a Maori woman was left partially paralysed by a love bite from her amorous partner.

Dr Teddy Wu, who is currently working in the neurolog