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
PMO orders huge cuts in social sector spending for 2015-16
Employment guarantee, rural road and sanitation schemes among those likely to be affected
Troubled minds
In spite of a National Mental Health Programme being in place, very few people suffering from mental illnesses in India get treatment, either …
Push to create cadre of family doctors for rural India
Government's National Health Systems Resource Centre is finalising recommendations which are likely to seek inclusion of family medicine in MBBS …
Cradles of hope
A recent health survey throws up figures that defy logic. Some districts in India’s nine most backward states have curbed infant mortality …
Centre bans gutkha
Activists, health experts are sceptical; pin hope on Supreme Court’s verdict on smokeless tobacco
FSSAI's scientific panel reconstituted
But members of the panel now designated as “independent consultants” were a part of the panel as representatives of the industry till …
Fatal resistance
The strong and mighty bacteria are all around us. They have hardened themselves to fight back the antibiotics administered to patients. This is …
28 people tested positive in India for COVID-19: Harsh Vardhan
16 out of them Italian nationals, says Union health minister
COVID-19: Has community transmission begun in India?
Govt denies India in Phase 3 but experts not sure about its claim
COVID-19: Govt’s survey exposes lack of preparedness across India
Lack of PPEs, ventilators and overall hospital preparedness reported as major concerns
COVID-19: We will write to states to resume immunisation, says Centre
NCDC says 9 coronavirus disease hotspots in country, ministry says there are many
COVID-19: Health ministry says less, hides more on cases, deaths
ICMR doing a rethink on HCQ as a preventive drug, says Gangakhedkar
AIDS bill put on fast track
Non profits object to provisions in the changed draft
India issues guidelines for Zika virus
Suggests avoiding unnecessary travel to affected countries
Guidelines released for evaluation of nano drugs
Nano-pharmaceuticals are expected to be of great use particularly in cancer treatment
Push to prevent cancer, strokes
Government wakes up to threat of non-communicable diseases
Ventilators for COVID-19: Crisis looms in several states even after 50,000 allocated
More than 7,000 of the Centre-allocated ventilators are lying idle
Endgame begins
Experts say India needs to move beyond oral vaccine to battle vaccine-generated polio
ICMR to get more funds, power
Fight over non-existent biscuits
India reports 21 cases of COVID sub-variant JN.1, now a WHO ‘variant of interest’
We need to be on the alert, but there is no need to panic, says Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya
TB turns invincible
Discovery of a deadly form of TB in a Mumbai hospital underscores mismanagement
Over half of prescribed antibiotics in India can lead to AMR, finds National Centre for Disease Control
High use of antibiotics found; recommends defined policies and monitoring consumption
Budget banks on insurance; neglects deteriorating public healthcare
Stress on insurance poised to benefit the private sector