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Centre: Symptomatic travellers must report to airports authorities

New Delhi, May 22 -- Union ministry of health and family welfare has issued an advisory directing symptomatic travellers coming from, or transiting through, high-risk countries for Ebola Virus Disease... Read More


Centre: Symptomatic travellers must report to airports authorities

New Delhi, May 22 -- Union ministry of health and family welfare has issued an advisory directing symptomatic travellers coming from, or transiting through, high-risk countries for Ebola Virus Disease... Read More


Centre holds meet to assess ebola response

New Delhi, May 21 -- Union health secretary Punya Salila Srivastava held a high-level review meeting with the states on Wednesday to assess preparedness and response measures regarding the Ebola Virus... Read More


Centre issues Ebola advisory for travellers from high-risk nations

India, May 21 -- The Union health ministry has issued an advisory directing travellers arriving from, or transiting through, Ebola-affected countries to immediately report to airport health authoritie... Read More


Frequent infectious disease outbreaks becoming more damaging: Report

India, May 18 -- As infectious disease outbreaks become more frequent, they are also becoming more damaging, with widening health, economic, political and social impacts, and less capacity to recover ... Read More


World Health Assembly opens on Monday amid global financial constraints

India, May 17 -- The Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly will take place from May 18 to 23 in Geneva against a backdrop of global financial constraints and the need to sustain progress towards Health ... Read More


22.1 million excess deaths during Covid-19: Report

New Delhi, May 14 -- The latest World Health Statistical Report again underlined higher volumes of excess deaths during Covid-19 pandemic with the report estimating 22.1 million excess deaths having o... Read More


Roche launches subcutaneous lung cancer immunotherapy, cuts delivery time to 7 min

India, May 14 -- Pharma major Roche on Thursday announced the launch of the immunotherapy drug Tecentriq that can, for the first time, be administered subcutaneously, reducing drug delivery time to se... Read More


Bridging Boundaries: Senior WHO official's memoir launched

India, May 13 -- In her memoir, Bridging Boundaries: Memoirs of a Public Health Journey, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, the first woman regional director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) South-Eas... Read More