Probiotics market thrives sans regulations
Indian food safety authority yet to specify deadline for notifying regulations for food products containing 'friendly' microorganisms
Supreme Court issues notices on unethical drug trials
1,727 persons have died during drug trials between 2007 and 2010, says public interest petition
Convalescent plasma therapy may go off Indian protocol for COVID-19: ICMR
PM Modi urges citizens to follow precautions during upcoming festive season
India launches vaccine against Japanese encephalitis
Can the indigenously developed JENVAC curb spread of brain fever?
India’s diabetes burden likely to increase
First phase nation-wide study finds diabetes prevalence highest in Chandigarh
Rising trend
Poor and the young are new victims of hypertension
COVID-19: SC asks Centre for way to make tests free at pvt labs
Solicitor General says private labs roped in since government labs insufficient; contradicts ICMR’s position
Checks on drug trials
Court intervention prompts guidelines for drug trials. Pharmaceutical companies lobby to dilute them
Ethics on trial
Five per cent of the clinical trials conducted across the world will be in India by 2012. They are vital for confirming the efficacy of a new drug,…
Bihar deputy CM stirs up a storm with remarks on asbestos
Minister misquotes court ruling; gives views that contradict party stand
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
‘Policies will infuse objectivity in health research’
Several health and research policies in the country are either in draft stage or just recommendatory in nature. This hampers regulation of …
Joint committee favours endosulfan exports
Cites lack of pesticide disposal facility
Drug trials: Irked NHRC issues notices to Centre and Andhra Pradesh government
Says respond else face action
Kerala becomes second state to ban chewing tobacco
Those who violate ban may be fined up to Rs 5 lakh or imprisoned up to six years
India’s mysterious diseases: What is NCDC doing?
There is enough evidence to show that National Centre for Disease Control on diseases is not equipped to deal with the country’s …
SC bans endosulfan, for now
Committee to submit report on the pesticide's toxicity in eight weeks
Madhya Pradesh bans gutkha and other chewing tobacco products
Licences of two gutkha manufacturing companies were cancelled in March
New swine flu kit makes disease detection easier in India
Portable testing kit gives results within an hour
No community transmission of COVID-19 in India, health ministry repeats
Silent on deadline for Indian COVID-19 vaccine; says human trials yet to take off
HPV vaccine deaths: Parliament panel indicts PATH, health officials
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded agency bypassed ethics and rules while conducting clinical trials for vaccine which was administered to …
Hepatitis afflicts many HIV/AIDS patients, but there is no policy for them
Health ministry and AIDS control body keep shifting responsibility; no statistics available on patients with co-infection
Health ministry forms committee to investigate charges by parliamentary standing committee
It will also suggest ways to improve grant of statutory approvals for drugs and functioning of the CDSCO
Bhopal gas leak: curative petition downplays number of deaths
Victims threaten rail roko agitation if government fails to correct death and injury figures in a month
Chidambaram visits Bhopal on June 5
Gas disaster victims say they would like to present actual injuries, death reports