Chennai, The Madras High Court has directed the Union government and the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities to undertake appropriate steps to provide four per cent reservation for ...

It has been one month since Baloch student Mahjabeen Baloch was "forcibly disappeared", yet her location remains unknown ...

Shaheed Benazirabad, Abdul Samad Nizamani, chaired a meeting Monday to review the monthly performance of the District Surveillance Programme, Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), and the Sindh ...

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund has launched a statewide immunisation campaign aimed at vaccinating over one million children against polio in Taraba State.The campaign was ...

Polio is in the news, with vaccination under threat and recent outbreaks. This makes Alan Marshall’s classic disability ...

During his Senate confirmation hearings, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested he wouldn’t undermine vaccines.

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As fired and retired scientists rallied outside in the Atlanta heat, an advisory panel that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. handpicked ...

Before the vaccines, such illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

Today, Smith, Ferguson and other polio survivors like John Nanni, of Delaware, spend a lot of time educating others about polio disease, the long-term complications of post-polio syndrome and the ...