Spending on programmes to control India's three main communicable diseases—malaria, tuberculosis and leprosy—increased...

Chandigarh, India's first planned city--known for wide roads laid out in geometrical precision and large, green spaces...

Substandard medicines could be three times more prevalent than the government says, two new studies show. These...

With four in five deaths in India not certified by medical professionals, according to a new census report, many more...

A 17-year-old Kolkata boy was prescribed Dapsone, an antibiotic, for a skin problem, and developed severe, potentially...

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory, reported India's lowest infant-mortality rate (deaths per 1,000 live...

The north eastern state of Mizoram has reported a 13 percentage-point decline in stunting (below normal height for the...