49 news articles10 Dec 2025 to 04 Nov 2026
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The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has proposed amendments to Schedule M of the Drugs Rules, 1945, vide G.S.R. No. 953(E) dated 28 October 2026, to…
The 10th edition of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change report, produced by 146 researchers from 30 countries and published ahead of the COP31 cli…
$2.1 tnThe All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA), New Delhi, reported encouraging findings from a community-based Ayurveda programme promoting physical and mental hea…
International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week 2026 runs from 18 to 24 October. The 2026 campaign theme is 'From Detection to Prevention'. The campaign aims to ra…
French authorities confirmed the first documented human case of the Shamonda virus, previously found only in animals, in a severely immunocompromised patient tr…
World Mental Health Day is observed every year on October 10. The theme of World Mental Health Day 2026 is 'Lived Experiences Heard: Real Voices, Real Change'. …
50%Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Shri J.P. Nadda launched JOSH (Joint Squad for Health) Teams under the TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan at a national event at B…
21%Cervavac, India's first indigenously developed gender-neutral quadrivalent human papillomavirus (qHPV) vaccine from the Serum Institute of India (SII), received…
25%As per the WHO Global Health Estimates (GHE), road traffic injuries ranked 10th among causes of death for both males and females in India in 2023, while road in…
14%WHO's Global Health Estimates show India's life expectancy at birth was 71 years in 2023, compared with 68.2 years in Pakistan, 72.7 years in Bangladesh, 78.5 y…
62%In 2025, about 50 million Indian schoolchildren attended schools with no sanitation service, the highest absolute figure of any country, followed by Nigeria (34…
The Ghana Health Service, through its Family Health Division, officially launched National Family Planning Week and commemorated World Contraception Day 2026. T…
India dispatched about 3 tonnes of anti-tuberculosis medicines to Colombo aboard an Indian Air Force C130J aircraft to support Sri Lanka's public health system.…
34%Union Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava reaffirmed India's commitment to eliminating Hepatitis B and C as public health threats by 2030 at a UN General A…
The Indian government launched the Biovigilance Program, led by the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC), to monitor adverse events linked to medicines and bio…
World Alzheimer’s Day is observed annually on September 21 as part of World Alzheimer’s Month, held every September. The 2026 theme is “The Earlier You Know, Th…
70%Union Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare and Chemicals & Fertilizers, Anupriya Patel, launched the 7th Edition of the National Formulary of India (NF…
The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 16 September as the International Day for Interventional Cardiology in September 2022 to raise public awareness o…
32%The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa confirmed the closure of poliovirus type 2 outbreaks in Burundi, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Republic o…
The Technology Development Board (TDB) of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, signed an agreement with Griva Healthcare to supp…
50%The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have classified hydrochlorothiazide, voriconazole, and tacrolimus…
World Breastfeeding Week is observed annually from August 1 to 7. The week is organized by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) in collaboration w…
World Hepatitis Day is observed globally on July 28 every year. The World Health Organisation (WHO) named the 2026 campaign as 'Hepatitis: Let’s Break It Down'.…
90%World Drowning Prevention Day is observed annually on July 25. The theme for World Drowning Prevention Day 2026 is 'Unite to Turn the Tide'. The International L…
The State Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Snakebite Envenoming (SAPSE) aims for zero snakebite deaths and disabilities by 2030, aligned with WHO and n…
The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) granted market authorisation to Takeda's QDENGA, the first dengue vaccine approved in India. QDENGA is indicated fo…
80.2%The Omicron RF.5 sub-variant was detected in four COVID-19-positive samples from Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh, following genome sequencing at a Pune virology…
The Gates Medical Research Institute (Gates MRI) and the Serum Institute of India (SII) have partnered to manufacture the M72/AS01E tuberculosis vaccine candida…
$100 mnDr. Soumya Swaminathan has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, an institution established in 1660. She is the first Indian in the institution's 365-y…
The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) launched the 'Strategic Roadmap for Making Ayurveda Global' to transform Ayurveda into a globally r…
$2.16 bnThe World Health Organization (WHO) has added the first molecular diagnostic test for the Bundibugyo Ebola virus to its Emergency Use Listing. The diagnostic te…
The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA), in collaboration with Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), launched AIR SUVIDHA 2.0 to strengthen public health su…
India has activated the Air Suvidha portal for passengers arriving from or transiting through Ebola-affected countries, requiring a mandatory online Self-Declar…
$10 mnThe Embassy of the State of Palestine to the Republic of India has requested the Government of India for life-saving medical supplies valued at 100 million USD.…
World Dengue Day is observed each year on 15 June. The theme for the observance is One World Against Dengue. Dengue is a viral infection caused by the dengue vi…
World Blood Donor Day is observed worldwide on 14 June 2026. The official theme for the 2026 observance is One Drop of Humanity. Give Blood. Save Lives. The the…
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar have developed a portable, handheld device named ArsenSafe to detect arsenic contamination i…
Researchers from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) institutes, and the International Agency f…
95%World Food Safety Day is observed globally on 7 June 2026. The theme for 2026 is 'From Burden to Solutions – Safe Food Everywhere'. The event is facilitated joi…
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