Indian Health News  

In a shocking incident, seven newborn babies have died allegedly due to faulty incubators at Old Government Hospital in Vijayawada city. The Andhra Pradesh government has ordered a probe int... Read more

The Election Commission of India has decided to allow eunuchs/transsexuals to indicate their gender as 'other'.

Besides the electoral roll, the decision also applies to ... Read more

A new live oral cholera vaccine from non-virulent innocuous strain, which was modified to formulate the vaccine, has been developed by scientists from three Indian institutes.

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Patients are facing the brunt of a three-day strike by junior doctors at the Patna Medical College Hospital (PMCH) here.

The interns are seeking an increase in their stipend from... Read more

In a commentary in Indian Pediatrics, a journal of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics, medical experts have slammed India's laggard attitude in the fight against measles.

The country... Read more

Eighty three people have tested positive for swine flu on a single day in Rajasthan, of which 71 cases are from Jaipur. Nearly 20 people have died due to swine flu in the state.

Of t... Read more

The Indian Health Ministry is likely to table in the next Parliamentary session the redrafted Clinical Establishments (healthcare and regulation) Bill 2007, requiring compulsory registration... Read more

The monthly pulse polio vaccination drive has begun in Mumbai and has already covered 8, 09, 000 children out of the total 13, 10,000 five year old children, in the first day itself.
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India has laid claim to the world's first nose job, which according to scriptures, was conducted by Sushruta.

Sushruta lived around 600 BC and is cited to have performed "sophist... Read more

Looks like an Indian doctor working in 600 B.C. might have been the world's first plastic surgeon, according to a new exhibition that challenges Western domination of the history of science ... Read more