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. …
Karnataka has joined the movement against the implementation of the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) which is to be tabled in the Parliament’s winter session. The Bill formulated by the Science and Technology Ministry is a blatant attempt to bulldoze public resistance and genuine concerns over genetically modified crops, …
The health ministry is planning to develop a foolproof mechanism to ensure recall of all faulty and banned drugs from the Rs 60,000-crore domestic pharmaceutical market. The move will strengthen the existing recall provisions under the Drugs and Cosmetic Rules. The current law, however, fails to prescribe time-bound recall formats. …
Dengue cases in the capital are nearing the 1,000 mark despite some signs of decline in recent days. In the past 24 hours, a total of 16 people have been diagnosed with dengue fever in different hospitals here. "Dengue cases gradually fall with the onset of winters. In the past …
Concerned over the large number of child deaths due to measles every year, the Centre has launched a massive anti-measles vaccination drive. More than 13 crore children are expected to be covered under the Measles Catch-up Campaign, irrespective of their previous measles vaccination status. The drive has been launched by …
Criticised for not doing enough to tackle the spread of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in parts of eastern Uttar Pradesh, where hundreds of children die or are disabled every year, the Centre has now approved the setting up of dedicated wards in seven hospitals in the …
The new National Vaccine Policy Draft 2011 by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare comes out openly in favour of public-private partnerships and suggests flexible governing and funding mechanisms to support vaccine development in the PPP mode. This article argues that our vaccine policy must look into the …
Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh, who also holds the Drinking Water and Sanitation portfolio, will work in concert with the Union Health Ministry and prepare an action plan to subdue the menace of Japanese Encephalitis raging in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh. Mr. Ramesh noted that encephalitis continued …
In Gorakhpur, thousands have become a burden on their poor families Lack of rehabilitation facilities for thousands of children, disabled here after a Japanese encephalitis attack, has made life a burden for them. Already reeling under acute poverty, these children are now an economic burden on their families. The monthly …
The NOTE India (National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication), body spearheading the anti-tobacco movement, on Sunday accused the Centre of investing Rs. 40,000 crore in tobacco companies in contravention of its anti-tobacco campaign. NOTE general secretary and cancer surgeon Shekhar Salkar said the Government of India and its undertakings had one-third …
Govt plans to fix and regulate prices of all 348 essential drugs & their combinations The new pharmaceutical pricing policy proposed by the chemicals and fertilisers ministry last week will create distortions in the market and hamper the industry’s growth, some drugmakers and regulatory experts have claimed. Under the National …
Medical facilities have collapsed as encephalitis epidemic continues to rage Even as the rest of India recovers from its Diwali celebrations, residents of Poorvanchal have been marking a grim time that descends on the eastern Uttar Pradesh region each year: a time local people call the season of death. Ever …
Concerned at the death of 13 babies in the past 48 hours at the B.C. Roy Children's hospital in Kolkata, the Union Health Ministry on Thursday sought a detailed report from the State-government run hospital. In June too, the hospital witnessed 18 crib deaths, provoking angry reactions from the parents …
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 …
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 …
New Delhi: The hero of India’s polio fight — the bivalent oral vaccine (BOPV)— is now being tested against the injectible one (IPV) to see which one boosts mucosal immunity (also known as gut immunity) the most and provides immunity to a child for the longest time. A first-of-its-kind study …
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 …
AGARTALA/AIZAWL: Incidence of cancer has been rising alarmingly in the hilly northeastern region of India, almost half the cases being attributed to consumption of tobacco products, experts say. According to experts, Mizoram tops the rate of cancer patients with an incidence of 200 in 100,000 each year. Though other northeastern …
An ambitious, large-scale HIV/AIDS public health programme prevented an estimated 100,000 new infections in parts of the country hit hardest by the AIDS epidemic, indicating that HIV prevention programmes that target high-risk groups can reduce HIV rates in the broader population. This is revealed by a new analysis by the …
Japanese encephalitis (JE) has claimed the lives of eight more children in the last five days in Bihar's Gaya district, taking the death toll in the epidemic to 62, a health official said Thursday. The two children died in the last 24 hours and six in the last five days …
With another person testing positive for Japanese Encephalitis, the number of people affected by the virus rose to five in the city. 30-year-old Ram Swarth, a resident of Inderpuri in southwest Delhi, is the fifth victim in the city to be diagnosed with the disease that primarily affects the central …
