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. …
New Delhi: While the Union Health Ministry waits for May 31 to put in practice its ambitious plan of pictorial warnings on all tobacco products, the move to ban smoking in public places seems to have paid rich dividends. Hefty fine amounts collected since the ban was imposed from October …
There are immediate and long-term needs for tobacco control capacity development in India. In the short term, the development of in-person and virtual training programmes aimed at increasing the number of people educating the population about tobacco offers a critical and cost-effective approach to expanding the knowledge-base regarding tobacco. For …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked for the records of a meeting of Group of Ministers on the issue of pictorial health warnings on cigarette and beedi packs to examine the charge of former health minister Anbumani Ramadoss that the minutes of the meeting were changed to benefit …
Govt Decision To Stock 10 M Doses Means Rs 250-Cr Biz For Pharma Cos THE ministry of health & family welfare will stockpile 10 million doses of anti-viral drug oseltamavir in the next seven days as a precautionary measure against a possible outbreak of swine flu, which has been officially …
New Delhi: Even as the deadly H1N1 swine flu virus claimed its first victim outside Mexico (in Texas) on Wednesday and Germany became the latest country to report an infection, India started gearing up to have the capacity to protect 30 lakh people in case of a flu outbreak. The …
In the wake of swine flu outbreak, the State Epidemiological Cell of Directorate of Health Services on Tuesday in a meeting, decided on different measures to be adopted, including posting of three to four doctors at the Dabolim airport to screen patients coming in from infected countries like Mexico and …
Vanaspati ghee manufacturers unhappy with proposed standard THE oils and fats sub-committee of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (mohfw), on March 18, agreed on a 10 per cent ceiling on trans fats in vanaspati ghee sold in the country. Members of the sub-committee also agreed trans fat levels …
Ahmedabad : Talk about virility and there is nothing that can beat Gujaratis. A new study on review of family welfare programmes in the country by Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare states that Gujarat has the second highest number of condom users among men and Intrauterine Device (IUD) …
New Delhi: With Anbumani Ramadoss resigning from the Union Health Minister post recently, the plan to introduce pentavalent vaccines from April 1 is unlikely to take off. The pentavalent vaccine
Integrated Disease Vector Control (IDVC) project had its beginning in Kheda district of Gujarat way back in 1983. With the demonstrated success of malaria control using environmental approaches in select villages of Nadiad Taluka, the project jointly funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research and Ministry of Health and …
MUMBAI: The 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCOTH) was inaugurated by Maharashtra Governor S.C. Jamir at the National Centre for the Performing Arts on Sunday. Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, who addressed the gathering said that despite the efforts of the government and many non-governmental …
Is not cool, it increases risk of various diseases, says report THE rich and the middle class are spending more on unhealthy food, according to the quick estimates of the national consumption expenditure 2007-08. The study measures the amount of money that consumers spend on food. This has led to …
Rema Nagarajan TIMES INSIGHT GROUP New Delhi: The government might have reversed its decision to shut down three public sector vaccine manufacturing units following a public furore, but what
Shutdown Led To Shortage And Spiralling Of Prices: PIL TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Health minister Anbumani Ramadoss may have been able to get away without a political cost for his controversial decision to close down three public sector units manufacturing many life-saving vaccines, but he has run into the …
In a face saving exercise after it was rapped for discontinuation of vaccine production in public sector units, the Health Ministry announced selective and phased-manner re-starting of vaccine production at the three public sector undertakings, which had been directed to stop production one year ago. Answering questions in the Lok …
