According to Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director WHO South-East Asia Region, the year 2020 saw a dip in coverage of childhood immunisation programmes globally and...
World Breastfeeding Week 2021: A balanced diet including a variety of fruits and green vegetables along with drinking lots of fluids and performing light exercises can...
According to Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Virendra Kumar, a total of 58,098 manual scavengers have been identified across the country
World Breastfeeding Week: Instead of avoiding contact with her child because of the fear of the infection, a lactating mother who has tested Covid positive should...
Experts have warned that there may be a worsening of COVID-19 outbreak as soon as this month. How is India preparing for the third wave?
The Union Health Ministry on Tuesday (July 20) informed that the fourth round of the National Sero-survey has been conducted and the overall seroprevalence in the...
According to the World Health Organization, the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 has shown higher transmissibility than other mutant variants of concern (VOCs) identified to date
According to Dr Manju Puri, Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, pregnant women must take all possible precautions...
Children may express psychological distress (sadness) by acting out in a different way like some may become silent while others may express anger and hyperactivity, said...
Sustainable Development Goals: Odisha ranked number one in Goal-14 relating to conservation and sustainability of the use of ocean, sea and marine resources
According to a data compiled by UNICEF on immunisation of children against vaccine-preventable diseases, 1.7 crore children worldwide have not received even a single vaccine during...
According to Dr Aditi Hazra, Associate Epidemiologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, genome sequencing by countries help in keeping up...