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Travel clinics typically specialize in providing advice, immunizations and preventive medications that are needed. (Photo: Pixabay)

Pregnant and breastfeeding women travelers underprotected from disease

Pregnant, breastfeeding women who travel to places with high risk of diseases like malaria and yellow fever are less...

25 Nov 2017 10:23 AM GMT

Both influenza and whooping cough are highly contagious, and babies who catch these infections often require hospitalization. (Photo: Pixabay)

Vaccinating pregnant mothers is safe for babies

Infants are much less likely to get influenza or whooping cough when their mothers were vaccinated during pregnancy.

22 Feb 2018 4:20 AM GMT

She has pioneered work on safe and effective rotavirus vaccines that are now being used to prevent disease in Indian children and which will soon be used in vaccination programmes around the world. (Photo: Dr Gag

Dr Gagandeep Kang, first Indian woman Fellow of Royal Society in 360...

She aims to get the best of vaccine to market and even push them into state immunisation programmes.

24 April 2019 8:38 AM GMT

Health workers don protective clothing as they prepare to attend to patients in the isolation ward to diagnose and treat suspected Ebola patients, at Bikoro Hospital in Bikoro, the rural area where the Ebola outbreak was announced last week, in Congo. Congos latest Ebola outbreak has now spread to Mbandaka, a city of more than 1 million people, a worrying shift as the deadly virus risks traveling more easily in densely populated areas. (Photo: AP)

Congo prepares for first Ebola vaccinations as 26 die from virus

UN's WHO put death toll at 26, with three new cases in country's sprawling northwest confirmed by the country's health...

21 May 2018 7:52 AM GMT

Sidd Coutto with the kids. (Photo: Mahi Ghia)

In tune with the strays

Mahi will be singing along with her brother and friends from Deutsche School of Bombay and Cathedral and John Canon...

25 Jan 2017 7:35 PM GMT

On average, breastfeeding babies cried for 38 seconds less than babies who didnt nurse during vaccinations. (Representational Image)

Breastfeeding may reduce babies' pain during vaccinations

Nursing appeared to be more effective at pain reduction than sugar water, pain creams or sprays at the injection site.

19 Nov 2016 6:29 AM GMT

The panic was visible mostly in minority dominated and remote areas of the state as several parents referred to messages coming on their mobile.

Social media rumour on vaccine sparks panic

Assam students avoid vaccination drive over fears it will lead to infertility'.

16 May 2017 8:38 PM GMT

Maharashtra govt to form 5-member committee to probe swine flu deaths

Sawant made the announcement after holding a review meeting with the health officials and MLAs from Thane, Pune and...

27 July 2017 9:38 AM GMT

We need a fundamental shift in the way we mobilise resources for health and human capital. (Photo: Pixabay)

Half of world's people can't get basic health services: WHO

Some 800 million people worldwide spend at least 10 percent of their household income on healthcare.

14 Dec 2017 6:33 AM GMT