MMR vaccine linked to lower rate of infection-related hospital admissions

In a nationwide group of Danish children, receipt of the live measles, mumps, andrubella (MMR) vaccine on schedule after vaccination for other common infections was associa...

First Lady Charity announce support for breast cancer

THE First Lady Charity will soon deliver a Mammogram machine for breast cancer to the Ministry of Health and Medical Services.

A member and secretary of the First L...

Farm yields may drop if climate change impact not addressed

New Delhi: Agriculture yields are likely to decline to 9 per cent in the next 25 years if the climate change impact is not mitigated, Minister of State for Agriculture Tari...

Mission possible

The Centre gives India just about eight years to free its villages of open defecation. This seems unlikely. But the states of Sikkim, Haryana and Jharkhand in India, and Ba...

Farmers encouraged to follow sustainable agricultural practices

Field visit cum training programme at Lumami village and Sutemi village of Zunheboto district was conducted on March 3.The department of agriculture under the supervision o...

Uttarakhand safest for newborns: first annual health survey

The first ever annual health survey (AHS) released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on May 3 rates Uttarakhand as the safest state in India for child to be born...

Most infant deaths in India occur on first day of birth

In spite of reducing child mortality, deaths of infants in India on the first day of birth is still way too high and likely to hamper it from achieving the millennium devel...

Ex-Kansas congressman, Hollywood comedian testify about Alzheimer’s

Comedian Seth Rogen, who started the fund Hilarity for Charity after his mother-in-law was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s at age 55, testified on Capitol Hill...

Eliminating maternal mortality could extend life expectancy in reproductive ages

Maternal death rates represent the single largest health discrepancy between developed and developing populations, with nearly all – over 99%—maternal deaths wo...