Road accidents top reason for adolescent deaths: WHO
HIV/AIDS, suicide among other top causes. The good news is that rates of cigarette smoking are decreasing in 10-19 years age group in some countries
Diabetes drug ban spells trouble for patients, doctors
Experts say pioglitazone difficult to substitute and health ministry has imposed ban without a back up plan
Allocate 3 per cent of GDP to healthcare, says Indian Medical Association
Recommendations for Union Budget 2013-14 include wooing private sector; public health experts sceptical
Superbug threat is for real
But Indian government does not think it is significant
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National plan on non-communicable diseases
No labelling for GM food
New food safety regulation ignores it despite a four-year-old law
Budget brings no relief to health sector
FM does not mention Universal Health Coverage, combines rural and urban health missions while making allocations
Assam’s rural health practitioners face uncertain future
High court derecognises their diploma; state yet to work out a plan to absorb them
After extensive lobbying, two-finger test finally removed from proforma for medical examination of rape victims
Uniform protocol and further research in forensic medicine required
Government's expert panel recommends 'first come, first served' policy for registering new drugs
Activists accuse panel of pitching for pharma industry and ignoring patients' interest
Lung infections to panic attacks: Those who ‘beat’ COVID-19, but did not recover
Amid studies hinting at long-term impacts of COVID-19 infection, the world, including India, has started monitoring people who recovered from the …
Deaths due to non-communicable diseases increased by 37 per cent since 1990
Kerala, Goa, and Tamil Nadu have the largest share of non-communicable diseases, according to the 2016 India State-level Disease Burden study
Parliament committee indicts drugs regulatory authority
Drugs which are banned in developed countries are approved in India without clinical trials
Supreme Court issues notices on unethical drug trials
1,727 persons have died during drug trials between 2007 and 2010, says public interest petition
Ads term gutkha ban unfair
Analysts call the ads misleading; health ministry plans action against industry
Audit of India's water bodies confirms their polluted status
CAG assessment reveals governments' inaction in curbing water pollution
Rising trend
Poor and the young are new victims of hypertension
Checks on drug trials
Court intervention prompts guidelines for drug trials. Pharmaceutical companies lobby to dilute them
Will appellate body uphold grant of compulsory licence to cancer drug?
Hearing on Bayer's appeal against manufacture of generic version of Nexavar to conclude this week
COVID-19: Centre doesn’t clarify basis for CDSCO authorising remdesivir
Government also does not provide clarity about whether remdesivir should be given to only severe patients
COVID-19: How distant laws, uneven measures afflict sanitation workers
The pandemic has further aggravated the dichotomy of livelihood and safety of sanitation workers
'Chhattisgarh's PPP model for diagnostic services flawed'
Team of experts deputed by Centre says state's plan could lead to denial of services to poor patients and filing of false claims
'South Asia, Africa show poor progress towards MDGs'
India fares worse than Bangladesh and Nepal, says report