Faced with a steady decline in registered births and a rapidly ageing population, the Tamil Nadu government has initiated measures to integrate infertility care into its family welfare programme, becoming the first state in the country to take such a step....
More than 7,200 confirmed Ebola cases have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as sustained transmission continues in several provinces despite an overall downward trend of the epidemic, according to governmental data released Tuesday....
A fake doctor was arrested after his chamber in the Sonarpur area of South 24 Parganas district was raided, a senior police officer said on Tuesday....
India on Tuesday dispatched 10 tonnes of Antiretroviral medicines to Botswana to support their public health system for HIV-AIDS treatment, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar said highlighting New Delhi's commitment to strengthen health cooperation with Global South partners....
A 17-year-old girl donated her stem cells to give her 10-year-old brother a second chance at life after he battled leukemia, a type of blood cancer, as Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre near here successfully conducted its first allogeneic bone marrow transplant (BMT)....
The secretary of the Association of Private Hospitals and Nursing Homes (APHN), Rajeev Pandey, has lodged a complaint with the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate seeking an investigation into senior officials of the West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) over the alleged increase in registrations of fake doctors in the state...
The V.D. Satheesan government is working to bring in comprehensive legislation for the care and protection of senior citizens in the state, as it moves to fast-track the proposed Kerala State Senior Citizens (Care and Protection of Rights) Bill, 2026....
The government on Wednesday announced plans to formally allow the use of abortion pills by women up to nine weeks pregnant, as related regulations remain unrevised following the Constitutional Court's 2019 striking down of the abortion ban....
The Council of Homeopathic Medicine, West Bengal, has cautioned the state government over the continued operation of several unrecognised institutes offering courses in homeopathy and biochemistry across the state, warning that many are also illegally issuing registration numbers to graduates....
As millions of children in Pakistan remain nutritionally vulnerable despite years of interventions, malnutrition can no longer be treated as an occasional emergency in the country, according to a new report....
