Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
To save the children from the scourge of killer encephalitis the state government has decided to start a massive vaccination programme in which children up to 15 years of age would be vaccinated with ante-encephalitis vaccines. “This year we want to minimize the loss of precious lives due to encephalitis …
Health minister JP Nadda on Thursday launched a campaign called HealthifyIndia, which aimed to help a million Indians to adopt better practices for a better life. As part of the campaign, the partners involved will deliver goods and services worth Rs 1000 to anyone who pledges to have a healthy …
Prices of branded drugs available in India should be brought down closer to the prices of their generic alternatives, requests a letter from the Indian Medical Association (IMA) addressed to the union health ministry. The letter, sent in the second week of April, also requests the ministry to assess the …
Faced with opposition from public health activists, the health ministry is set to intervene and may soon urge the finance ministry to distance itself from an upcoming international conference in New Delhi, being co-organised by a consortium funded by several transnational tobacco companies. The event - The 12th Annual Asia …
Around 11% of the people in Delhi are suffering from asthma the government said on Tuesday while attributing its causes to smoking and air pollution. "As per a survey conducted by the Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi, which covered 5,900 adults belonging to urban, rural and slum population in Delhi, …
The anti-tobacco health advisory , considered an irritant by most filmmakers, could be on its way out. The government instead proposes to replace the scroll with advertisements starring top actors that will be screened before the film or during the interval. The on-screen warning was first introduced in 2012 after …
The Health Ministry today postponed indefinitely the enforcement of tougher anti-tobacco pack warnings it had notified in October last year for implementation from April 1 this year. The postponement came in the form of a “corrigendum” to the ministry’s October 2014 notification which required the tobacco industry to print pictorial …
The Union health ministry’s decision to defer the implementation of a notification for increasing the size of pictorial health warning on cigarette packets and various other tobacco products has not gone down well with the public health experts and tobacco control advocates. In a letter to the Prime Minister, they …
With number of swine flu cases crossing 27,880, government on Tuesday said the virus would continue to circulate though no mutation was taking place. A total of 27,886 swine flu cases have been reported from different parts of the country since January 1 (up to March 11), Health and Family …
The Centre today rejected a research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US, which says the H1N1 virus responsible for over 1,500 deaths since late last December has a new and more infectious strain than the one witnessed in 2009 during the global swine flu pandemic. “We reject the …
The deadly swine flu claimed 40 more lives in the country, with the toll from the flu reaching 1,115 while the total number of cases breached the 20,000-mark. According to the Union health ministry 1,115 persons have succumbed to the H1N1 virus while the number of those affected by it …
The swine flu onslaught has claimed 34 more lives as the nationwide toll from the H1N1 virus so far this year touched 1,075 with the number of cases of the disease inching towards the 20,000 mark. Data collated by the health ministry said that altogether, 1,075 persons have now perished …
With cases of swine flu registering an increase in the Capital, the Delhi Government and the Union Government will submit their response within a week to the High Court here on the steps being taken to control the outbreak of the viral disease. A Division Bench on Wednesday issued notices …
Order of the High Court of Delhi in the matter of Uday Foundation for Congenital Defects and Rare Blood Groups Vs Union of India & Others dated 25/02/2015 regarding ban on junk food and carbonated drinks in schools and initiation of measurs to develop a comprehensive school canteen policy with …
As many as 216 people have lost their lives to swine flu across the country in the first ten days of February as the death toll due to the contagious disease mounted to 407 this year, mostly in states like Gujarat and Rajasthan. The latest government data said that 5,157 …
With 61 new cases of swine flu on Monday, the total number of cases in the city have crossed the 950 mark this year. With the rising number of swine flu cases, city health department reviewed the situation arising out of the spread of H1N1 (swine flu) virus in the …
With four more deaths on Sunday, the toll of swine flu deaths in the state has touched 38. While two persons died in Nagpur, Pune and Aurangabad recorded one death each. Of the 38 deaths, five have succumbed to the virus in Mumbai since January. Maharashtra has recorded 138 cases …
The rights perspective is missing in the draft of the National Health Policy-2015, said the National Human Rights Commission’s Core Group on Health. It also said that the public health system in the country needs to be made accountable and participatory. The reconstituted core group, which met here recently to …
2,038 cases reported this year across the country, 191 dead In the wake of a H1N1 (swine flu) outbreak, which has claimed 191 lives this year, the Centre on Monday said mortality on account of the flu can be contained with immediate medical intervention. There have been 2,038 cases of …
India’s maternal mortality rate has further dropped to 167 per one lakh live births, an indication that India will be able to achieve Millennium Development Goal 5 concerning maternal deaths — a feat that the World Health Organisation had earlier claimed would remain unmet. While the MMR in 2010-2012 was …