Six years after leprosy was declared officially eliminated in India, officials and doctors are warning that the disfiguring disease is spreading in poverty-stricken pockets of the country.

The head o

A World Health Organisation backed study has claimed that India has a higher rate of depression than any other country.

The study, ‘Cross-national epidemiology of DSM-IV major depressive episode,’ re

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has observed measles outbreaks in many European countries and has asked health authorities to scale up immunisation measures.

According to the WHO, 33 European cou

Moscow: The World Health Organisation has said that people of Moldova, an eastern European nation, consume more alcohol per head than citizens of any other nation.

The average Moldovan citizen consum

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

London, Aug. 21: The World Health Organisation has supported British scientists, who earlier this month had issued an urgent warning against the spread of drug-resistant bacteria in the Indian subcont