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. …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Brinda Karat, MP and Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member, has asked Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to look into the issue of shortage of vaccines in the country and take steps to procure them in adequate quantities to avert …
Anita Joshua NEW DELHI: The Government is planning to make diabetes and hypertension check-ups mandatory for rural India. This was disclosed here on Sunday by Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad while addressing the SAARC Diabetes Conference. Formulating scheme According to Mr. Azad, his ministry was …
An Act to provide for the constitution of the National Council for Human Resources in Health for prescribing standards with a view to the proper planning and co-ordinated development of medical and allied health education throughout the country, the promotion of qualitative improvement of such education in relation to planned …
Five more persons succumbed to swine flu while 178 fresh cases of the disease were reported from across the country on Tuesday. With this, the number of deaths due to swine flu has reached 308 while those affected have crossed 10,000, according to the Union Health Ministry. Delhi reported the …
Sept. 18: Union health and family welfare minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said that the Centre favours therapeutic cloning (cloning of human tissues and organs) on a case-to-case basis. The minister also said that the Centre would soon come out with a bill on stem cell research and its application. Mr …
Mumbai: Maharashtra has the largest number of HIV-positive children in the country with fresh cases increasing 10-fold in the last three years. Data released by the health and family welfare ministry shows 11,938 new cases were registered between November 2006 and May 2009, or 22% of India
MUKESH RANJAN Sept. 16: The government is likely to approve on Thursday the amendment proposals of the health ministry in the Transplantation of Human Organs Act 1994, which will enhance jail term for wrongdoers from present five years to 10 years, along with a monetary fine of Rs 5 lakhs …
Swine flu virus is mild; unpreparedness resulted in panic fifteen-year-old Preshita Padhye tested positive for H1N1 virus on July 27. She spent the next five days at the isolation ward of the Aundh general hospital in Pune.
Civil society and the media are unfairly blaming a government nutrition programme I have been a political journalist for over three decades. Only recently have I become familiar with the nitty gritty of development reporting. The manner in which malnutrition is covered by a section of the media has come …
The worst is still not over for India as World Health Organisation has warned of an increasing trend of the pandemic in the country. The H1N1 virus has spread to 28 States and claimed over 175 lives so far. Health Ministry sources report that WHO has termed the number of …
Aug. 27: Union health ministry on Thursday said its "limited analysis" on deaths due to H1N1 influenza virus has revealed that most of the patients were brought in for treatment at a very late stage. The ministry also feels that 14-44 years is vulnerable age-group to be affected by the …
Most people who died due to swine flu in the country reported to hospitals with very severe cough and breathlessness. This was revealed in a study of the first 33 out of the total 78 deaths in the country. Meanwhile, swine flu has claimed three more lives, taking the countrywide …
Namrata Biji Ahuja Aug. 25: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has found deficiencies in the 18 laboratories nominated by the health and family welfare ministry for testing suspected swine flu cases. The apex body for disaster management in the country, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, has asked the …
From Mexico to Pune, swine flu is spreading more fear than disease. DIVYA GUPTA maps the hysteria Cautious? A Mumbai school teacher helps kids with masks given by the Shiv Sena WHILE DEALING with global pandemics, it is best to dispel the biggest myths surrounding them first. The
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday expressed concern over the increase in polio cases in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and asked the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry to closely monitor the situation while taking steps to eradicate the disease. Dr. Singh made the statement at a meeting …
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday said Ayurveda and Unani interventions could be used for increasing the immunity to fight various flu-like conditions. These could be adopted by normal healthy persons as well as those with mild symptoms such as cold, cough and body pain. However, in the case of …
NEW DELHI: The Union government will soon issue a fresh set of guidelines for schools to help them contain the spread of A (H1N1). It includes asking the authorities to avoid holding the morning assembly, cultural gatherings and any other kind of congregation. Sources in the Union Health and Family …
Feed malnutrition with policy India has eight million malnourished children. Yet the country has no policy on what food should be given to treat malnutrition. Lack of policy has led international development agencies to adopt varied approaches like giving highly nutritious ready-to-use food. Such measures have often led to confusion …
