Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
The alarming new trend of asking patients to undergo surgery they could do without With the burgeoning of hospitals, medical malpractice has only grown. While in the past, doctors were known to prescribe a host of tests for patients and take their own time in discharging them, a new and …
Cancer is often considered a disease of developed nations. In developing countries such as India, the focus has been on curbing communicable diseases. This has resulted in a dramatic improvement in life expectancy in India from 32 to 63 years in the past five decades. However, with the neglect of …
NewDelhi:India may, in a few weeks, officially acknowledge that malaria kills 40 times the current estimate of 1,023 people a year. A 16-member committee set up by the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme to gauge India’s actual malaria death burden has arrived at 40,297 as the average deaths per …
New Delhi The government has made it mandatory for pharmaceutical companies sponsoring clinical trials in the country to pay financial compensation to volunteers in case a trial-related death or injury is proved. Moreover, the onus of proving that clinical trials did not cause death or injury will now lie with …
A study on the apparent diabetes resistance of a tribal community in Rajasthan has found that they have the highest occurrence of the HLA gene, which makes the body predisposed to diabetes, in India, and possibly the world.The genetic profiling of the Raika community — a nomadic camel rearing tribal …
Kolkata, 26 Dec: The field of stem cell research and therapy has witnessed enormous expansion in basic and clinical aspects and much is expected from this rapidly growing sector of science which may alleviate sufferings of human kind, according to Mr V M Katoch, director-general of Indian Council of Medical …
NEW DELHI, 20 DEC: A World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendation to ban use of rapid test kits used to detect tuberculosis in developing countries notwithstanding, there is rampant use of this kit in India that gives “unacceptable levels of wrong results”. A recent study conducted by Indian Council of Medical …
Cites an ‘exhaustive’ survey conducted by govt in affected areas; PTU expert rubbishes claim Disparaging reports linking high prevalence of cancer to brackish water in Malwa belt of Punjab, Chief Secretary SC Agrawal has said a Health Department report had found that there was no link between water and the …
Ahmedabad: Cancer is on the rise in India, with an estimated 5.35 lakh people dying of the disease this year, minister of state for health Sudip Bandyopadhyay informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. In Gujarat, 26,588 people have succumbed to the disease. The minister said that figures recorded with the …
The scare abroad over the superbug or NDM-1 (New Delhi Metallo beta lactamase) in 2010 was deliberately created to tarnish India’s image as a medical tourism destination, says V.M. Katoch, director-general of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). “A hype to create some kind of a scare about the …
On a mission to take stringent action against those involved in milk adulteration, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent letters to 350 milk packaging units in the state warning them of surprise raids. “We wanted to caution the milk manufacturing units that we will not tolerate adulteration. The …
Karnal: “There is absolutely no evidence that pesticides are responsible for cancer in India, especially in the Malwa region of Punjab, Director-General, ICMR, and Secretary, Department of Health Research, Dr VM Katoch today said. Dr Katoch, who was the chief guest at the inauguration of a four-day international conference on …
High spending on medicines and health will push many Indians below the poverty line, the World Health Organisation has cautioned. “Due to the out-of-pocket spending of their income on medicines and healthcare services, about 3.2 per cent of India's population will come below the poverty line,” a senior WHO official …
Startling new documents show that weeks after the tragic Bhopal gas leak in December 1984, the Indian government mutely accepted a settlement offered by Union Carbide Corporation (UCC). Among other things, UCC's offer outlined the quantum of compensation to be paid out to victims and how injuries were to be …
Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat has requested Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to take action against those responsible for alleged violation of guidelines in the Human Pipillomavirus (HPV) project. In a letter to Mr. Azad, she drew his attention to an …
DIBRUGARH: The State Government has undertaken a mass campaign for Japanese Encephalitis Immunization in Sivasagar district, as a pilot project from Oct 9 this year. This programme would continue up to Oct 31 at various venues as per plan. Regional Medical Research Centre, NE Region, Dibrugarh, under the Indian Council …
With over 400 children dying of Japanese encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh so far this year, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has suggested the setting up a group of ministers (GoM) to deal with the dreaded disease that claims hundreds of young lives every year. After holding …
Nearly five years after approving it for free use as a IVF drug, the Health Ministry Monday suspended the use of Letrozole with immediate effect, citing “likely risk”. Letrozole — a Aromatose Inhibitor drug that blocks the action of estrogen — is used to prevent recurrence of breast cancer. The …
Bhopal : Just months after the 1984 gas leak at Union Carbide’s plant here, the Indian government agreed to the “terms” set by the company on compensation to be paid to victims, a Right to Information (RTI) activist has claimed. Not only that, the government treated the world’s worst industrial …
Vaccination for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) should be followed up by a second dose to provide strong immunity to children against these troublesome diseases. A single dose of MMR vaccine does not provide the required im-munity. According to a research study by senior resear-chers Dr G. Sunil, Dr Shukla …
