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: Health ministry says less, hides more on cases, deaths

ICMR doing a rethink on HCQ as a preventive drug, says Gangakhedkar

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

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

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

Push to prevent cancer, strokes

Government wakes up to threat of non-communicable diseases

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

Chikungunya kills three in Delhi

Municipal authority claims four deaths due to dengue, but the number may be higher

Policy draft backs new vaccines

Health experts say new vaccines not essential enough to be in the national programme

Trial and error

Recent notifications offer no security to clinical trial participants

No two-finger test for rape

Health ministry does away with the controversial test; medicos demand use of rape kit

SC slams health ministry for unchecked clinical trials

Says trials of all new drugs must be supervised by health secretary

Govt neither denies nor accepts adverse event in Serum Institute COVID-19 vaccine trial

Health secretary claims all procedures followed but refuses to divulge details

Kerala's Pathanamthitta district has highest number of diabetics

All men and women above 30 to be screened for diabetes in 100 districts by March 2021

Pentavalent takes its toll

The vaccine is suspected to have killed at least 13 infants. Experts want data analysed

Health ministry invites bids for plastic-wrapped mosquito nets

Environmentalists oppose; say plastic not good for environment

Leprosy looms

Latest survey dismisses government’s claims of disease elimination  

CAG report finds promotion irregularities at ICMR institute

Irregular payments of over Rs 2 crore at NICED; Promotions ante-dated by upto 34 months