Activists demand access to affordable oral hepatitis drugs
Giving patents to foreign-made medicines will add to patients’ woes, they urge
CAG report finds promotion irregularities at ICMR institute
Irregular payments of over Rs 2 crore at NICED; Promotions ante-dated by upto 34 months
Health ministry fumes over ads terming gutkha ban unfair
Calls them misleading and unjustified
Leprosy returns
Public health experts blame it on government complacency
Spending on junk food
Officials push five-in-one vaccine
Pentavalent vaccine linked to child deaths in Sri Lanka, Bhutan; ball in high court
How to cure corruption in healthcare
Rx: Only an effective governing body, which includes medical and non-medical members, can stop the culture of kickbacks
Health Act faces hurdles
Centre drafts guidelines to regulate clinical establishments; Indian Medical Association resists
Ban on pesticides: Plea in Supreme Court alleges restriction on reduced number of chemicals to protect companies
Next hearing on April 28; SC seeks reasons for the decision from Centre
Deficient programme
Centre wants to treat anaemia with iron tablets. Can pills substitute nutritious food?
Draft organ donation rules propose stiff penalty on illegal trade
Small health centres to get licence for organ retrieval
Illogical formula
Lopsided drug trial compensation plan marginalises the unemployed and homemakers
Centre confirms three pentavalent vaccine deaths
Union health ministry says 17 other deaths of infants reported in Haryana, Kerala and Tamil Nadu were not linked to five-in-one vaccine
`Many doctors are simply businessmen'
Samiran Nundy, chairperson of the department of surgical gastroenterology and organ transplantation at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and editor-in-chief …
As told to Parliament (February 12, 2021): CSE expose on honey adulteration taken note of by Centre
All that was discussed in the House through the day
Government launches new health programme for adolescents
Earlier schemes were confined only to sexual and reproductive health, say health officials
Get your own vaccine
Down To Earth filed an RTI application to find out the reason of vaccine shortage in India. The response revealed how a plan to promote private …
Clinical trials: compensation may be given only if injury directly relates to trials
Health authority says final decision on the matter may take time
Degree without honours
Parliamentary committee turns down a proposed three-year course in rural health
Curing the ills of pharma FDI
Foreign investment in existing pharma companies will be allowed with riders
Pharma companies determine what patients buy
Ivermectin for COVID-19: Mismatch between global and Indian policies
Union health ministry guidelines say the drug "may be" used for COVID-19 patients even as global agencies don't recommend
Don't ignore the deadly sign
Government buckles under pressure from tobacco industry and halts order on large pictorial warnings on tobacco products. Will profit prevail over …
CAG finds lapses in dental education
Slams health ministry for granting permission to dental colleges with inadequate infrastructure and faculty
Impatient to sterilise
In a hurry to bring down fertility rate, health officials are blatantly flouting government’s guidelines