Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Congress candidate from East Delhi constituency Sandeep Diskhit on Tuesday said the Congress is committed to ensure food security as it has promised to enact a Right to Food law. Interacting with citizens in Vishwas Nagar area in his constituency, he said the Congress has pledged that every family living …
Anti-snake venom processing laboratory will soon start production at National Institute of Health (NIH), said Health Minister Mir Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani on Friday. He was addressing groundbreaking ceremony of the country
Gandhinagar: State health minister Jaynarayan Vyas has clarified that the draft Gujarat Public Health Act is "not a final document" and that it has been put on the web for triggering a public, debate, "making tie entire process most transparent". Vyas made the statement in view of wide-scale protests by …
INSURANCE executives held out hope to the afflicted late last month by announcing their willingness to end a notorious industry practice: charging higher premiums to people with health problems or denying them coverage altogether. But don
The National Rural Health Mission provides a large canvas and platform for health action, but Shyam Ashtekar (EPW, 13 September 2008) misses many issues and does not make his critique from the right perspective. During the short period of its existence there is ample evidence to show that the mission …
The experience gained by the integration of the leprosy eradication programme with the general health services has many lessons to offer in the context of the National Rural Health Mission
A smoking law was passed by the Spanish Parliament in December 2005 and was enforced by 1 January 2006. The law bans smoking in all indoor workplaces but only in some hospitality venues, because owners are allowed to establish a smoking zone (venues > 100 m2) or to allow smoking …
When it comes to linking cigarette smoke to heart attacks, one might assume that such a link would apply only as long as one is smoking or being exposed to secondhand smoke. That's not necessarily true, however, at least according to a follow-up study of people living in and around …
Increasingly, voices across the world are questioning the narrow approach to a single disease, especially the huge financing for AIDS over all else in basic healthcare. Though welcome and long overdue, this debate must now move further.
Last November in Beijing, government officials representing member states of the World Health Organisation adopted a declaration that provides a powerful endorsement of traditional medicine and may one day become the foundation for a legally binding resolution.
This study specifically addresses the issue of low level of health insurance coverage with special reference to private health insurance. The study analyses the rational behavior of insurance agents in the scale-up process of health insurance in an imperfect market. Moreover, the study discusses the impact of such rational behavior …
In a bid to inject fresh life into Bihar's rural medicare system, the State Government has taken a major policy decision by upgrading the existing 533 primary health centres into community health centres equipped with all modern medical gadgets. Bihar Health Minister Nand Kishore Yadav told PTI today that the …
Prior to the 2004 Philippines Measles Follow up Elimination Campaign, measles caused an estimated 6000 deaths among Filipino children. After the campaign, cases and deaths decreased by 96.4% and 99.2%, respectively. The Nationwide Rapid Coverage Assessments, with an extensive system of feedback, was the prime factor in reaching the under-immunized …
