Dallas, Feb 3 (JEN): A person in Texas, United States, has been infected with the defect-causing Zika virus after having sex with a person who apparently caught the virus while visiting Ven ...

Lyon, France/Kolkata , Feb 2 (JEN): Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, announced today that it has launched a vaccine research and development project targeting the prevention ...

New York, Feb 2 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Meeting on Monday on the Zika virus outbreak, the World Health Organization announced that the recent cluster of neurological disorders and neonatal m ...

Geneva, Feb 1 (IBNS) WHO is calling on governments to rate movies that portray tobacco use in a bid to prevent children and adolescents from starting to smoke cigarettes and use other forms ...

New Delhi, Jan 29 (JEN): Union health minister J P Nadda, on Friday, held a high level meeting with his senior officials and the All India Institute of Medical Science to take stock of the s ...

New York, Jan 29 (Just Earth News/IBNS): The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday called an emergency meeting for Monday on the “dramatic” rise in Zika virus infection – strong ...

New Delhi, Jan 28 (IBNS): Union minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan dedicated to the nation on Thursday a low cost motorized wheelchair, called Locomo, developed by the Department of Biotechnology un ...

New Delhi, Jan 28 (JEN) Consumption of tobacco has come down by a little more than 11 per cent in West Bengal, according to the recent reports released by the National Family Health Survey.

Kolkata, Jan 28 (JEN): More than 60 percent women in the 15-49 year age-group in West Bengal suffer from anaemia, reveals the National Family Health Survey 2015-2016.