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. …
Rule Out Fault In Cold Chain System All four children who died after being administered the measles vaccine in Tamil Nadu on April 23 suffered severe brain haemorrhage resulting from an anaphylactic shock, an inquiry has found. This will be pointed out by the fivemember expert team sent by the …
For an outpost town with little hope, it's nothing short of a miracle. Just some 20 km away from the Nepal border, Narkatiaganj village is one of Bihar's dens of extortion and kidnapping. But a bit more reassuring picture emerges when you visit its primary health centre (PHC), buzzing with …
The Union Health Ministry will procure vaccines from private manufacturers at less than half the market price for a two-year period. The procurement will be at no extra cost to the government, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss told The Hindu. Written agreements were drawn up with private manufacturers to provide vaccines …
Four children, all below 10 months of age, died after being administered measles vaccine at Pennaloorpettai and Venkatapuram villages in Tiruvallur district near Chennai on Wednesday. Another 15 children have been hospitalised after developing anaphylaxis reaction after being administered the vaccine, sources in the Public Health Department said. "No problems …
Mercifully there is a law in place completely banning cigarette advertisements, or else, this Supreme Court judgment could have dented the campaign of health minister Anbumani Ramadoss against film actors smoking in public. It set aside a national consumer forum directive to Godfrey Phillips India to discontinue all advertisements featuring …
By the end of May smokers are going to find it difficult to find a safe place to smoke. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is finalising the new rules for restricting smoking in public places and proposes to publicise the same before No Tobacco Day on May 31. …
A review meeting is scheduled to take place on April 9 between Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry officials and Health Directors of northeastern States at Guwahati to discuss the recent outbreak of malaria in Meghalaya. An official of the health department here said the meeting is being held to …
Rupnagar, March 24 The Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice Vijender Jain has urged the people of the state to wage a joint struggle to eradicate female foeticide in Punjab. While addressing a seminar on female foeticide organised by the Health Department, Justice Jain said: "The people of Punjab …
Paving the way for setting up of an authority to regulate food items across the country, the Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed a Bill to amend the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. The Food Safety and Standards (Amendment) Bill will replace the
Minister for Information and Broadcasting P R Dasmunsi on Tuesday told Lok Sabha that the Government planned to take action against surrogate advertising resorted to by tobacco and liquor companies. According to a recent notification (dated February 25, 2008) that amended the Cable Television Network Rules, 1994, no advertisement would …
With the Union Health Ministry setting its sights on establishing a comprehensive vaccine manufacturing unit with World Health Organisation's licence, the three oldest government vaccine manufacturing units in the country have stopped production. Pasteur Institute, Coonoor, Udhagamandalam; BCG Vaccine Laboratory, Chennai; and Central Research Institute, Kasauli, Uttar Pradesh, have stopped …
In an effort to curb illegal organ trade and also overcome the massive shortage of organs for transplant, the health ministry is mulling a proposal to introduce the concept of
Health and Family Welfare Minister Ambumani Ramadoss informed the Lok Sabha the other day that 69.5 per cent of children in the age group of six to 59 months are suffering from anaemia of which 63 per cent are in the urban areas and 71.5 per cent in the rural …
A map, which pin-points the location of India's remote villages worst affected by malaria, will now spearhead the country's war against the vector-borne disease. After almost three months of extensive research, using the state-ofthe-art geographic information system, India's National Vector-Borne Disease Control Programme is now armed with the country's first …
On the lines of National Rural Health Mission, the National Urban Health Mission will be launched in 429 towns, having over one lakh population, within four months, Union Health Minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss has said. Inaugurating Dr Agarwal's Eye Hospital here today, he said the new project would improve all …
Key aspects of Tamil Nadu project may be replicated in other States National Urban Health Mission implementation likely in 3-4 months' time Tamil Nadu is the best performer in the implementation of the National Rural Health Mission, Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has said. Speaking to press persons after a …
This year's first P1 wild polio virus strain has been isolated in Delhi. Fourteen-month-old Gulnaz from Darbangia colony in Kirti Nagar area is the victim. Daughter of a rickshawpuller, the girl's family migrated from Bihar just six months ago. She was supposedly administered 10 doses of oral polio vaccine in …
Packs of cigarette and beedi or hand-rolled cigars will carry pictorial warnings but not grisly depictions of mouth ulcerations due to cancer, a group of ministers decided after a meeting here Tuesday evening. The ministers also decided that the size and the picture content - of a scorpion or lung …
A Group of Ministers (GoM) on Tuesday recommended using pictorial warnings on cigarette, beedi and tobacco product packs but did not set any time-frame for its implementation. Chaired by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the GoM also decided to tone down the nature of pictures and reduce the size of …
