Eighty-five percent of all births and 70 percent of deaths in the country are now being registered, the government said on Tuesday....
The requirement to print pictorial health warnings on 50 percent of the two sides of the packs of tobacco products is "excessive" and will adversely impact tobacco farming and industry, said a ...
Drug and narcotics related offences are on the rise in the country, with 1,699 deaths reported in 2014, parliament was informed on Tuesday....
Individuals who retire become more physically active, reduce their sitting time, are less likely to smoke, and have healthier sleep patterns, when compared with people who are still working, finds a new research....
In a world's first, a team of Swiss scientists has enabled an amputee feel smoothness and roughness in real-time with an artificial fingertip that was surgically connected to nerves in his upper arm....
Cochi Medi City and Tourism Pvt Ltd, promoted by a group of Qatar-based NRIs hailing from Kerala including medical professionals and businessmen, on Tuesday announced the setting up of a state of the art Rs.1,300 crore health care project here....
Playing "brain-training" video games may help improve some mental abilities of people with multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease of the central nervous system that can lead to weakness, muscle stiffness and difficulty in thinking....
Severe spinal pain and exhaustion in the mornings marked the period before he was diagnosed with tuberculosis way back in 2000, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan said on Monday....
A new breed of mosquitoes laden with bacteria has proven capable of controlling the spread of dengue fever and the Zika virus, said Vietnam's health officials on Monday. ...
A team of doctors at the Max Super Speciality Hospital, at Saket in the national capital, recently successfully removed what they believe to be the world's heaviest fibroid removed laproscopically. ...
