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 Third People's Health Assembly was held in July in Cape Town, South Africa with its theme of "Health for All Now". Developing countries which transformed public health systems under the structural adjustment policies into insurance-based health models have failed in providing healthcare to the poor. Where does India stand …
The mothers of endosulfan victims of Kasaragod district have temporary withdrawn their agitation; but the struggle continues both at home and against the government. Assistance for life-long care of disabled, which takes most of their time, is still a trickle though it is far better than some years ago. Availability …
This report contains the results of performance audit of the Bureau of Indian Standards and the Dental Council of India as well as the academic activities of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata.
The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notices to the Union Ministries of Information & Broadcasting and Health & Family Welfare and the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) on a petition filed by the producer of an upcoming Hindi film, Heroine, challenging a direction to display a static anti-smoking …
14 New Drug Molecules Approved Between Jan & July 2012, Only 9 Tested: Azad New Delhi: Drugs continue to be approved in India without having undergone proper clinical trials on the local population. Just months after the parliamentary standing committee on health exposed how the country’s highest office on drugs— …
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the city government to examine and decide in two weeks a plea to ban oral tobacco products like ghutka, supari, pan masala and zarda in Delhi. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw gave the …
Lack of compensation norms for clinical trials results in exploitation of poor patients Drug companies paid as little as . 50,000 as compensation to families of volunteers who died during clinical trials for new medicines last year, leading to sharp criticism about the paltry sums being handed out and growing …
New Delhi: India aims to meet the much-awaited goal of reaching the total fertility rate (TFR) — the average number of children born to a woman — to 2.1% by the end of 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-17). The Planning Commission is likely to set the TFR target of 2.1 in …
New Delhi: As many as 211 people died between January and June 2012 due to serious adverse events (SAE) during clinical trials. Investigations are now on to ascertain how many of the deaths were caused by drugs administered to the trial subjects. Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on …
Accusing that the Planning Commission ignored suggestions of the Working Group while preparing the draft chapter on health, the Union health ministry has sent out its reservations and have suggested major changes in the health chapter to the Commission. In a recent communication to the Planning Commission, the health ministry …
India had witnessed a sharp decline in the number of new HIV cases — a 56 per cent drop — in the past 10 years. “HIV infections have declined by 56 per cent during the last decade from 2.7 lakh in 2000 to 1.2 lakh in 2009 in our country,” …
Scheme coming for free distribution of medicines through public hospitals and health centres The government will expand the scope of the NRHM to all towns and cities, by converting it into a National Health Mission (NHM), Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced on Wednesday. In his Independence Day speech from the …
The tussle between the Planning Commission and the Health Ministry on a countrywide health mission instead of two separate initiatives in urban and rural areas was decisively settled when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his Independence Day speech announced formation of a National Health Mission. The Health Ministry had been …
It wants health booklets and smart cards issued to patients To ensure proper implementation of the relief and rehabilitation programme and regular health care facilities for the Bhopal gas leak victims, the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that all medical records of patients be computerised and health booklets and smart …
PANJIM: Twenty-five percent of children under the age of five in Goa are underweight and 38.2% are anaemic a study by the National Family Health Survey of the Ministry of Health Government of India has revealed. According to a written reply to the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, by Krishna Tirath, …
Supreme Court gave six months to the Central and the Madhya Pradesh governments to dispose of toxic waste lying in and around the abandoned Union Carbide factory in Bhopal for the past 28 years. Read this order. Supreme Court order on Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster dated 09/08/2012. See Also Feature: …
Health Ministry Strongly Opposes Corporatization Of Sector. New Delhi: In a move that has angered the health ministry, the Planning Commission has asked for reversal of the longstanding public health policy from the 12th Plan onwards, ending the governments’ dominant role in providing health services and transiting to greater privatization …
New Delhi A formula to determine the financial compensation that victims of clinical trials would be entitled to has been proposed by the health ministry. In case of death resulting from clinicals trials, the deceased’s age, income, seriousness and severity of the disease he was suffering from at the time …
Mandatory ethics panel oversight, explanation within 30 days of a death & compensation rules coming The Union health ministry and the drug regulator’s office are preparing to introduce norms and notifications to monitor clinical trials in a better way. In the wake of criticism of the existing guidelines, the ministry …
