Chennai: Over 1,000 private matriculation schools in the state are likely to stop operating their buses from July 1 as they allege that the government had made them run from pillar to post to get the

Chennai: One per cent blood donation of the population is sufficient to meet a country’s basic requirements for safe blood, says WHO. Though India collects nine million units per year, the demand is

It is almost two years now since the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared India off the list of polio endemic countries.

However, according to the National Polio Surveillance Project data of the

The World Health Organization says the global target of 15 million people taking life-saving AIDS drugs by 2015 is just a first step.

With 8 million people in poor countries taking them now, WHO's Dr

April 25 is World Malaria Day and the World Health Organisation has prescribed the T3 (Test, Treat, Track) process to tackle malaria. Continuous investment in malaria control will propel countries re

Most mornings, Michael Odongkara takes his daughter Nancy Lamwaka outside and ties her ankle to a mango tree.

It's not something he likes to do. But the disease that gives the 12-year-old violent sei

India, which has been polio-free for over a year now, was on Saturday taken off the list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organisation.

This announcement was made by Health Ministe

India is hoping to be taken off the list of polio endemic nations with mounting evidence to show that the transmission of the virus is at an all time low.

For the first time since November 2010, mos

India is all set to be off the list of polio endemic countries. With India completing a year next week without the incidence of any polio case, experts say if the progress continues and all samples r

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