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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ICMR plans second dose of measles vaccine
More than two decades after it was introduced in the National Immunisation Programme, the
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This malaria parasite has a liking for women
BHUBANESWAR: Malaria infection in Orissa, where the disease has long been a major public health issue, lately is showing an interesting change in its distribution, prevalence and of course,
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The needle of suspicion
Off Sarkhej highway on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, Solapur highway in Pune, NH 7 near Whitefield in Bangalore, Ambala-Chandigarh highway at Lalru--steel-and-glass buildings dot the landscape. From the outside they look like archetypical expressions of new-age planning.
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Clinical features of fever in State different, says ICMR chief
Shastry V. Mallady MADURAI: Indian Council of Medical Research Director General V. M. Katoch has said that
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Flu shot trials come to India
To Be Tested On 100 Volunteers; In April, Local Version At Rs 80 Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: Clinical trials of the first H1N1 vaccine to be used on Indians from mid-February will start on Wednesday. Three medical institutes in Delhi, Chandigarh and Pune will test the H1N1 vaccine made by French vaccine manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur in a three-week bridging study on 100 Indians.
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18 succumb to mystery fever in tirunelveli
J Jayasingh Satyaraj | ENS Places like Melapalayam and Kadayanallur in Nellai district are the worst affected PANIC gripped people in Kadayanallur area as 18 persons have succumbed to an unknown viral fever during the past 45 days. Though clinical symptoms resembled chickungunya such as severe temperature, body pain, swelling in the joints, health officials denied it was chickungunya.
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ICMR to form expert group to study chikungunya-type fever
Shastry V. Mallady MADURAI: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) will study fever cases with chikungunya symptoms reported in various districts of Tamil Nadu. An expert group will be formed soon to find out the root cause of this fever, which results in joint pains and cripples the victims
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Ongoing tragedy
The victims are yet to be adequately compensated or given proper medical help; their water sources are yet to be decontaminated. At Arif Nagar slum, a toxic waste yard next to the boundary wall of the factory. The accident polluted the soil and groundwater in the neighbourhood to dangerous levels.
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How Bt brinjal was cleared
A coalition of organizations opposed to genetically modified food in India has written to the minister of state for environment and forests seeking withdrawal of clearance given to Bt brinjal. The Coalition for GM-free India alleged the expert committee that cleared the genetically modified brinjal for commercial cultivation in the country was neither impartial nor thorough.
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Is the H1N1 vaccine required, ask doctors
ICMR Cites Nerve Disorder As Side-Effect New Delhi: India will receive its first batch of H1N1 swine flu vaccine from Sanofi Pasteur by the end of January. But does India at all need a vaccine to combat H1N1? And will these vaccines, that have primarily been tested on foreign shores, be safe for Indians?