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. …
Why has a need of a National Health Research Policy arisen now? Though history of health research in India goes beyond 1911, when the Indian Research Fund Association, the precursor of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) was established, the country did not have a policy to guide research until …
An interim report by a committee set up to determine the reasons for suspension of licences of three public sector vaccine manufacturing units is said to have concluded that then Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss gave the order without a clear analysis of the matter. According to sources, the report …
Union health min ister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday informed Parliament that Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, would come into force in the next three to four months. The new Act makes adulteration an offence punishable with life imprisonment and also provides for penalty on manufacturers of adulterated food …
About two years ago, the Union health ministry suspended the licences of three state-owned vaccine-making facilities saying they were not complying with the who’s good manufacturing practices (gmp). The vaccine units have now been asked to resume work and get gmp compliance later. A February 26 directive of the ministry …
April 12: Union health minister Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday said Centre is in the process of making a comprehensive programme on population stabilisation. Mr Azad, however, clarified that government does not want any legislation to implement it but would be doing it through creating more awareness on issues …
If numbers are to be believed, the incidence of deadly H1N1 virus in India seems to be dropping. Health Ministry statistics have lately shown a marked fall in the number of swine flu deaths and infections in India. India reported only 12 cases of H1N1 virus on March 20 (maximum …
Azad asks young doctors to opt for postings in rural areas The vaccine has reached the human clinical trial stage 68 students receive degrees at NIMHANS convocation Bangalore:An indigenously developed vaccine against influenza could be a month away, according to Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad. …
In the capital to honour Health Minister Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad with Rotary's Polio Champion Award and to participate in the national polio immunization launch, Ms. Rajashree Birla of Aditya Birla Group announced to donate additional Rs 5 crore to Rotary International for polio eradication campaign. With an earlier contribution …
NEW DELHI: Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday launched the bivalent oral vaccine against polio in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh to mark the national immunisation day. The vaccine was launched in Bihar last month and offers protection from the P1 and P3 types of polio …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: With a view to providing access to good health care facilities to the common man, particularly railway passengers, the Ministries of Health and Family Welfare and Railways on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for developing health care infrastructure along the railway network across the …
The health ministry is planning to screen all people aged 30-40 in rural areas for lifestyle diseases like diabetes, Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Friday. Noting that there has been an increase in cases of noncommunicable diseases like cancer, cardio-vascular diseases and diabetes, Mr Azad at the …
With the pictorial warnings on tobacco products not making the desirable impact, the Union Health Ministry is considering replacing them with new hard-hitting images, which it expects to send the message home. Ministry officials have zeroed in on four different images
This study from the Prospective Studies Collaboration (PSC) is a meta-analysis of individual-level information shared by investigators of 57 primary prospective cohort studies to examine the relationship of body-mass index (BMI) with overall and cause-specific mortality.
The Union health ministry is for the first time undertaking a `pharmacological genetic study' to find out the effects of medicinal drugs on different races in India NEW DELHI The Union health Dec. 1: The Union health ministry is for the first time undertaking a "pharmacological genetic study" to find …
These rules may be called the Prevention of Food Adulteration (8th Amendment) Rules, 2009. They shall come into force on the date of their final publication in the Official Gazette.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on human resource development(HRD) in their 31st Report on the functioning of the central government hospitals under the department of health, had expressed concern about inadequate facilities for the treatment of poor patients for major illnesses. The committee felt that it was essential to explore all …
