Dietary Guidelines for Indians- A Manual
<p>The dietary guidelines emphasize promotion of health and prevention of disease, of all age groups with special focus on vulnerable segments of the population such as infants, children and adolescents,
Indian Council Of Medical Research (ICMR)
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Child mortality: Punjab among six states expected to achieve target
Only six states in the country, including Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, are likely to achieve the Millenium Development Goal (MDG) on reducing child mortality by 2015, says an official report. Except
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‘Ganga basin becoming India’s cancer centre’
Increasing amounts of industrial waste are being pumped into the Ganga river, transforming its waters into killer pollutants. A survey conducted by the National Cancer Registry Programme (NCRG) under the
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Panel to go into all aspects of endosulfan
Court asks Centre to spell out its stand The Supreme Court has appointed an expert committee to go into all aspects of the ban on endosulfan and the disposal of the existing quantity of the pesticide. The court has asked the Centre to spell out its stand on the manufacture and use of endosulfan in the country. A Bench comprising Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice Madan B. Lokur, hearing a writ petition filed by the Democratic Youth Federation of India on Tuesday, said the committee to be headed by the Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) would have the Member-Secretary of the Centre Pollution Control Board, two scientists, and the Joint Secretary of Plant Protection from the Agriculture Ministry on it.
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At 2, 1-minute diabetes test to be ready by Dec
New Delhi: Testing blood sugar levels will now take just about a minute, cost less than Rs 2 and require 1,000 times lesser blood than what glucose meters currently use. In what will be a real boon for
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Healthy intervention
The Supreme Court directs the Central and Madhya Pradesh governments and the ICMR to address the health needs of the Bhopal gas victims. THE Supreme Court of India has passed on August 9 a major judgment
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Urbanisation one cause of dengue rise
KOLKATA, 16 SEPT: Constant travelling and rapid urbanisation of rural areas have contributed to a nearly 50-fold increase in dengue cases over the last 50 years, say experts. "Aedes aegypti was known to
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CM sets up panel to look into radiation risks of mobile towers
A month after the Delhi High Court issued notices to the Delhi government and the Centre in a petition to stop installation of mobile towers near residential areas, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has formed
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Why do we need food security bill, ask Right to Food Campaign activists
Press for universal public distribution system Right to Food Campaign—a conglomeration of civil society groups — on Tuesday held a day-long protest at Jantar Mantar here, raising seven questions with MPs on the proposed National Food Security Bill, particularly in relation to people going hungry when the country has surplus food stocks. Rejecting the proposed amendments to the Bill that might reduce beneficiaries and entitlements under the Public Distribution System (PDS), they sought to know why a food security bill is needed.
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Clinical trials in dock in Kerala
Kerala Health Minister V.S. Sivakumar may have constituted a high-level panel to probe allegations of illegal drug trials on humans, but it may not just be enough to deal with clandestine clinical research. Recently a private centre near Thiruvananthapu- ram medical college hospital was sealed following reports that the institution had carried out more than 40 unauthorised tests.
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NHRC mulls guidelines for clinical trials
Alarmed by the rise in illegal drug trials in the country and the lack of effective laws for their monitoring, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is mulling guidelines for clinical trials. The NHRC has written to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and other premier medial institutes in the country to suggest the names of experts to assist the commission in framing the guidelines. Recently, the unauthorised drug trials had caused great concern in the country after the Drug Controller-General of India (DCGI) revealed that 2061 persons died during drug trials between the period from January 2008 to January 2012.