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October 27, 2025 7:24 PM

J.P. Nadda administers Integrity Pledge as Health Ministry observes Vigilance Awareness Week 2025

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Jagat Prakash Nadda on Monday led the observance of Vigilance Awareness Week 2025 by administering the Integrity Pledge to senior officers and staff of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in New Delh...

October 25, 2025 3:42 PM

Health Minister J.P. Nadda highlights decade of medical advancements at AIIMS New Delhi’s 50th Convocation

Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda addressed the 50th Annual Convocation Ceremony of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi on Saturday, lauding the institution’s global stature in medical education, research, and patient care....

October 24, 2025 5:15 PM

PM-ABHIM: Strengthening India’s health infrastructure for a pandemic-ready future

The Pradhan Mantri–Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM), launched in October 2021, has emerged as one of India’s largest healthcare initiatives aimed at strengthening the nation’s preparedness for future pandemics and health...

October 24, 2025 3:09 PM

US reports highest measles cases since 1992

The United States has recorded 1,618 measles cases and three deaths so far this year — the highest number of infections since 1992, according to data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Of the total, 1,595 cases we...

October 23, 2025 9:39 PM

Thousands of children at risk of death in Sudan’s besieged al-Fashir, UN says

Thousands of children are facing an imminent risk of death as malnutrition rates skyrocket in the besieged city of al-Fashir in Sudan's Darfur region, four United Nations agencies said on Thursday. More than a quarter of a million civilians, about h...

October 22, 2025 5:51 PM

Over 7.4 lakh citizens engaged during Pan-India CPR awareness week: Ministry of Health

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has successfully engaged over 7,47,000 citizens during the Pan-India CPR Awareness Week held from October 13 to 17, with physical training provided to more than 6,06,000 participants across the country. The w...

October 21, 2025 4:00 PM

Food flows into Gaza still far below targets, World Food Programme says

The U.N. World Food Programme said on Tuesday that supplies into Gaza were ramping up after the U.S.-brokered ceasefire but were still far short of its daily target of 2,000 tons because only two crossings are open, and none to the famine-hit north o...

October 21, 2025 3:39 PM

EU considers banning ethanol in hand sanitizers over cancer risk concerns

The EU is weighing a ban on the usage of ethanol as an active ingredient in biocidal products, including hand sanitizers, over increasing risks of cancer, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. An internal recommendation on October 10 by one of th...

October 21, 2025 2:12 PM

France raises bird flu alert level to ‘high’ after new cases

France has raised its bird flu alert level to 'high' from 'moderate', requiring poultry farms nationwide to keep birds indoors as Europe faces a seasonal resurgence of the disease. Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, is a se...

October 21, 2025 12:51 PM

UN sounds alarm over collapse of health system in Congo

Eighty-five per cent of health facilities in North Kivu and South Kivu provinces in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are affected by shortages of medicine, while nearly 40 per cent have experienced an exodus of health staff, a UN sp...

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