CONCORD, N.H.: Prompted by the health care overhaul law, several states are updating their rules for insurance networks to better reflect who is covered...
BERLIN: The risk of death following surgery is the highest on weekends, in the afternoons and the month of February, a new German study...
WASHINGTON: As governors, businesses and environmentalists brace for new limits on power plant pollution, President Barack Obama is casting his unprecedented effort to curb...
NEW DELHI: Health Minister Harsh Vardhan will write to Chief Ministers of all the states seeking their cooperation in fulfilling BJP's ambitious poll promise...
NEW DELHI: On the occasion of World Tobacco Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked the countrymen to say 'no' to tobacco and lay...
JAIPUR: Hundred per cent tax should be imposed on tobacco products to reduce their consumption significantly, health activists here have said.
"An increase in tax...
NEW DELHI: Highlighting the need for preventive measures to tackle the "diabetes epidemic sweeping" the country, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has said that...
CHICAGO: New drugs are making a dent against some hard-to-treat cancers, but some results raise fresh questions about whether the benefit is worth the...
GENEVA: The UN health agency warned countries to bolster their guard against the MERS virus, which has killed 152 people in Saudi Arabia and...
NEW DELHI: Sun Pharma has inked a settlement pact with Novartis Pharmaceutical Corporation over cancer drug Gleevec, paving the way for the Indian drug...