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 …
Experts identified Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) as the biggest killer in NE and advised the states to go for massive prevention and control mechanism of the diseases. Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) scientist Dr Prabhdeaep Kaur said on Thursday that they have launched a study in the region covering each …
A committee set up by the Centre to look into growing health problems among school going children has recommended that vendors should be barred from selling junk food during school hours in a vicinity of 200 metres of a school. The committee has further suggested that the shops selling junk …
Guwahati: The Union health minister, JP Nadda, on Tuesday informed the Rajya Sabha that cancer cases in the country could cross the 15-lakh mark by 2025 according to estimates by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)'s National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research. Based on projections on data collected …
According to Central Pollution Control Board trends, air quality in Vijayawada is worse than in Vizag and Hyderabad According to a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the deaths due to lung diseases in India were on the rise accounting for 11 per cent of the total deaths. As …
The age adjusted incidence rate of pharyngeal cancers in females of Kamrup-urban area is highest in the world and age adjusted incidence of gall bladder cancer in females of Kamrup-urban is second highest in the world, next only to Chile in South America. The incidence of gall bladder cancer in …
It doesn’t get bigger than this, in size, scale and rigour — scientists from one of India’s top cancer institutes tracked 11,000 schoolchildren in Delhi for three years. They were drawn from 36 schools, each within 3 km of a pollution-tracking station. This unprecedented study, by the Kolkata-based Chittaranjan National …
Health experts called the new technology on innovative low-cost diabetes diagnostic kits an important breakthrough for the 60 million patients and 70 million pre-diabetics in India. They added that the new low-cost equipment will help all those who avoid checking the blood sugar levels due to the high cost of …
Antibiotic resistance data from four big hospitals s being studied and analysed or the first time in India to help forecast drug-resistance patterns that may surface in uture. The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has been on the resistance trail since last year. It had set up six nodal …
AIIMS, IIT-D Among 17 Top Bodies Asked By Centre To Probe Its Health Impact At least 17 top scientific institutions in the country, including AIIMS and IIT Delhi, have been commissioned by the Union government to address concerns about radiation emitted from mobile phones and phone towers causing illnesses. Sources …
In order to gain clarity and study the outcomes of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) research, the Gujarat health department has set up a panel of health experts. The MIT research has raised concerns over the H1N1 virus in India acquiring mutations and making it more severe than the …
A latest study by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said there is no conclusive data or evidence so far to show that radiations from mobile phone or towers have adverse health effects. However, doctors, mainly leading oncologists, maintain that in the absence of enough scientific evidence there is need …
A staggering 2,400 fresh cancer cases are reported in Hyderabad every year, according to preliminary data gathered under the centrally-funded Population Based Cancer Registry (PBCR). Greater Hyderabad happens to be the latest city to join 25 other PBCRs located across cities and towns in India. PBCR centres are already functioning …
High fluoride levels in water in 14,132 habitations in 19 States With drinking water in 14,132 habitations in 19 States still containing fluoride above the permissible levels, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry fears that a huge population is at risk of serious health conditions such as skeletal fluorosis. …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as fluoride contamination is known to cause a host of health problems in humans, its impact on reproductive system and fertility in the population of the affected districts of Odisha is set to become the subject of a comprehensive probe. The Centre for Human Reproduction (CHR) of IMS …
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has banned the use of plastic containers for primary packaging of drugs. The ministry has issued a draft notification on September 29 to invite objections and suggestions from the pharmaceutical industry within 45 days after which a final notification will be issued, banning …
The Centre on Tuesday unveiled a kala-azar rapid diagnosis kit as part of its strategy to combat the disease which predominantly strike Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh. The kit developed by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) was released by Union Health Minister …
Seven wards of Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) have been identified by the expert committee on National Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme (NVBDCP) as very high risk areas for malaria. The areas are categorised based on annual parasite index (API) per 1,000 persons. If the API is above five, then it …
Says poverty estimates are reasonable The latest official estimate of India’s poor, from a committee chaired by C Rangarajan, head of the former Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, is based on certain normative standards of food and non-food consumption, as well as behavioural aspects of classes concerned for consumption of …
