Uttarakhand safest for newborns: first annual health survey

Survey will help measure progress of development goals and formulate district-level plans better, says health ministry

No infrastructure for universal health coverage in India, says report

Infrastructure for primary healthcare has decreased in the past decade

Elderly & lonely

India has more elderly people than ever before. Most of them have little social security and cannot afford healthcare. While the government seems …

India bans import of animal-tested beauty products

Becomes first South-Asian country to go ‘cruelty free’

In the wrong ministry?

Biotech Regulatory Authority will have too much power, no checks

Get your own vaccine

Superbug prompts antibiotics policy

Standard treatment guidelines will determine drug prescription

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

IN SHORT

In short

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

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

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