US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 10 directing federal health agencies to revise childhood vaccine recommendations. The order calls for breaking the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR)…
A new book, *Staying Alive: Dispatches from the Margins* by public health physician Dr Ramani Atkuri, documents how India's healthcare system fails its poorest. The narrative mixes patient stories with data, covering…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the 19 states and Union territories that have not yet done so to declare cancer a 'notifiable disease' for early detection and better care. A bench…
A study published in Nature Climate Change projects that a hot day by 2100 could have an extra four hours of extreme heat if high emissions continue. Researchers from Sun Yat-sen University…
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for sweeping changes to US childhood vaccination policy, including splitting the combined MMR vaccine into three individual shots and giving all childhood immunisations…
The Supreme Court has given the Centre and FSSAI two weeks to take a final decision on front-of-pack warning labels for packaged foods high in sugar, salt and saturated fat. The bench…
Karnataka's Food Safety and Drug Administration faces a severe manpower crunch, with 113 of 210 sanctioned food safety officer posts vacant, nearly 53 per cent. The shortage forced the department to draft…
A stray white dog allegedly bit over 130 people in Kalyan's Adharwadi area on Sunday evening, with victims arriving at the KDMC-run Rukminibai hospital every two minutes over four hours, officials said.…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday calling for the number of routine childhood vaccines to be reduced to 11 and for the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine…
The World Health Organisation has said that the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo, the fastest-growing on record, began in February, months before it was officially declared on May 15. Genetic sequencing confirmed…
