Good news does not always flow freely in India. Too many children still go hungry. Violence against women endures. Inflation is soaring, and gay sex was just criminalized, again. But today India got a ...

A child receives polio drops during an Indian polio eradication programme in Jammu. Picture February 19, 2012. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta If India, with all its problems, can eradicate polio, any country ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Vijay Yeldandi was an energetic and rambunctious toddler when he was ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) - India may be winning the fight against the most dangerous strain of polio, with no cases reported this year in a badly hit region seen as a key global battleground against ...

As the people living in a densely populated slum here begin their morning chores, drawing water for their animals and sweeping out the dust that has settled overnight, hundreds of student volunteers ...

The World Health Organization has just prequalified an additional novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2),a breakthrough in ...

A Jan. 23 Instagram video (direct link, archive link) shows a woman talking about polio and claiming the disease has been renamed. As proof of this, she points to increased cases of other diseases in ...

After press reports flagged the possibility of an inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) shortage in India, Sanofi says it's ready to supply the nation with a newly approved shot. Thursday, after the company ...

Fifteen years ago, a child in West Bengal was diagnosed with what would become India’s final case of wild polio. India — a nation that shouldered 60% of the world’s polio burden at one point — had ...

NEW DELHI, March 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The World Health Organisation declared India free of the crippling polio virus on Thursday, making the country's almost two-decade-long, ...

NEW DELHI — Two years after it was declared polio free, India said Wednesday it was launching an emergency vaccination drive after discovering a strain of the disease that is not covered by its ...