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. …
The first-ever indigenous low-cost pathogen kit, use to check food contamination, is all set to hit the market. Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will inaugurate the kits this week. Developed by the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Hyderabad, the kit can be used for checking the quality of food …
Concerned over several posts lying vacant in medical services in scheduled areas, the Group of Governors recommended that ministries of health and tribal affairs should declare all tribal sub-plan (TSP) districts as 'high priority districts' under National Rural Health Mission. This would provide medical staff working there a lump-sum incentive. …
President calls for creating a polio-free world As India celebrates its victory over polio — completing three years without any case of the debilitating infection — the nation becomes entitled to polio-free certification by the World Health Organisation in March. On Tuesday, President Pranab Mukherjee received Rotary International’s highest award …
Contrary to the popular belief that India is becoming dumping ground for clinical trials, the recent data, in fact, shows that the number of clinical trials are on a downward spiral. As per the government data, in 2011 the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) received 306 applications for approval …
Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday said that there is a need to strike balance between the interests of all the stakeholders with regard to the country’s regulatory policy on clinical trials, noting that innovation should be encouraged. Pharma firms have complained that India's new regulations for clinical …
Order of the High Court of Delhi in the matter of Roche Products (India) Pvt. Ltd. & Ors. Vs. Drugs Controller General Of India And Ors. dated 05/02/2014 regarding launching, introducing, selling, marketing and/or distributing the defendants’ (Roche Products (India) Pvt. Ltd.) drugs, i.e. CANMAb and HERTRAZ or any other …
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has washed its hands of the clinical drug trials that took place on gas-victims at Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC). Some of the doctors allegedly involved in these trials have resigned from BMHRC in the past few weeks. According to ICMR director …
Even as the public health department claims to have effectively controlled major diseases in the state, Maharashtra has earned the dubious distinction of being home to the largest incidence of both drug-sensitive and multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) cases in the country in 2013. A senior bureaucrat told TOI that while the …
India on Monday completed three consecutive years without a single wild polio case being reported from any part of the country, thereby achieving the three-year milestone necessary to achieve polio-free certification from World Health Organisation. The last polio case was reported on January 13, 2011 from Howrah in West Bengal. …
The maternal mortality rate in West Bengal has dropped sharply by 20 per cent due to health reforms in the State, latest statistics say. Quoting a latest survey report prepared by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who also holds the Health …
Letter from Indian Drug Manufacturers' Association regarding banning of PET bottles for medicines, 20/12/2013. The letter says that the "DTAB recommendations are unjust as they seem to be based on neither robust scientific facts nor on established global practices". Original Source: http://www.idma-assn.org/pdf/20-12-2013-letter-to-dghs-on-pet-bottles.pdf
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare, present this Seventy-ninth Report of the Committee on the Drugs and Cosmetics(Amendment) Bill, 2013. In pursuance of Rule 270 of the Rules of procedure and Conduct of Business in the Council of States relating to the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committees, the Chairman, …
Pharmaceutical companies Quintiles and Sanofi have failed to follow norms while conducting clinical trials of their new drugs on Bhopal gas leak survivors, the health ministry informed the Supreme Court. During hearings on alleged flouting of norms by pharmaceutical majors in conducting clinical trials on humans, the court had ordered …
The Health and Family Welfare Ministry has expressed concern over the Supreme Court order that gay sex is illegal, saying the ruling will prevent vulnerable communities from accessing health facilities for fear of discrimination and stigma. “We are concerned that this will discourage people from seeking health care, and consulting …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Suresh Kumar Koushal & Others Vs NAZ Foundation & Others dated 11/12/2013 regarding the constitutional validity of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC). The respondents say that Section 377 creates obstacles in carrying out AIDS awareness …
All clinical trials in India will henceforth have to take subject consent audiovisually and preserve the records. Acting on a directive of the Supreme Court, the drug controller has issued an order making audiovisual recording mandatory for all trials. While industry has raised objections, officials in the Health Ministry say …
It’s official. This year’s dengue outbreak in the country was the worst in at least six years, with 55,063 cases reported till October 28. According to health ministry data, the number of dengue cases has been rising since 2008 — when the count was 12,561 — dipping only in 2011. …
Supreme Court Bench orders it to re-examine 157 GCT, including NCEs, by Apex and Technical Committees. The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Union government to conduct five clinical trials that were approved this year after ensuring proper mechanism and procedure to ensure the safety of patients along with audio-visual …
Even as the threat of importing polio from polio-endemic countries looms large over India, which has not reported a single polio case since 2011, the government stands by the international health regulations and has decided that it will not put any travel-related restrictions on travellers visiting India from these countries. …
Notification No. S.O.1519(E) dated 23rd August, 2007 is kept in abeyance for a period of six months i.e. upto 31st March, 2014 or until issue of further notification by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare regarding regulation of GM processed foods by the Food Safety and Standards Authority, whichever …
