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India’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rose past 100,000 on Saturday, only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the United States and Brazil, and its epidemic shows no sign...

At least five members of the Great Andamanese tribe in Andaman Islands (India) are reported to have tested positive for Covid-19 and two have been admitted to the hospital, claimed Survival International (SI), a London based...

The World Bank has approved $350 million grant for three projects to help Bangladesh cope with one of the world’s largest forced exodus. These grants will help Bangladesh address the needs of the host communities and...

Measles infected nearly 10 million people in 2018 and killed 140,000, mostly children, as devastating outbreaks of the viral disease hit every region of the world, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. In figures described...

While the number of new cancer cases in children and adolescents (aged 0-19 years) is relatively low at around 416,500 globally in 2017, treatment-related ill-health and disability and fatal cancer are estimated to cause around 11.5...

Rock legend Elton John is to be awarded France’s highest civilian honour this week as he passes through Paris as part of his farewell tour, the French presidency said. The Legion d’Honneur award will be presented...

Democratic rule, enforced by regular free and fair elections, appears to make an important contribution to adult health by increasing government spending on health and potentially reducing deaths from several non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and transport injuries....

Despite 1 in 10 people worldwide (an estimated 850 million people) having chronic kidney disease (CKD), treatment and prevention efforts to stem this potentially fatal condition are far from adequate in rich countries, and often near...

The International Conference on Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases (Epidemiology Congress 2019) is going to be held during September 16-17, 2019 in Seoul, South Korea. Epidemiology Congress 2019 will bring together professionals from every generation who share...

UNICEF warned that global cases of measles are surging to alarmingly high levels, led by ten countries accounting for more than 74 per cent of the total increase, and several others that had previously been declared...