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

Where's the fire alarm?

Most hospitals in India fail the fire safety test, yet they take no corrective step

Gutkha sympathiser

Enforcement agencies had a busy year. They were tough at times, lenient at others

Madhya Pradesh bans gutkha and other chewing tobacco products

Licences of two gutkha manufacturing companies were cancelled in March

Bihar bans gutkha on World No Tobacco Day

The ban is already successful in Madhya Pradesh and Kerala

Australia pulls out Indian gutka ad

Kamla Pasand had boundary line advertisements in India-Australia matches

Ranbaxy launches new anti-malarial drug

It has an efficacy rate of over 95 per cent, claims company

Most cancer patients in India die without medical attention: study

'It is a myth that cancer is prevalent only in urban areas'

Risk of diabetic women delivering abnormal babies quantified

They have a seven per cent chance of having babies with birth defects

Endgame begins

Experts say India needs to move beyond oral vaccine to battle vaccine-generated polio

Out of pocket health spending has risen in rural India: study

Even after adjusting inflation, spending has increased 25 per cent in six years

TB turns invincible

Discovery of a deadly form of TB in a Mumbai hospital  underscores mismanagement

Arsenic just got dirtier

Exposure to arsenic also increases risk of hypertension

Leprosy looms

Latest survey dismisses government’s claims of disease elimination  

Cancer kills 400,000 each year, but screening for the disease yet to take off

Lack of trained manpower main hurdle, says health secretary

Developing countries outshine G7 nations in health aid

Study shows aid by BRICS 10 times higher than by developed countries

15 doctors went on foreign jaunt sponsored by pharma company, says Lok Sabha member

Doctors and pharma company deny charges

Almost half of doctors in US from lower-income countries

India has spent around $1,850 million on 53,000 medical graduates practicing in the US

Out of control

Parts of India still struggle to stabilise population growth

Unicef ranks India poorly in child mortality

Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh fare better

Sub-standard drugs bigger problem than counterfeit drugs: health activists

Problem of poor quality drugs cannot be solved with technology alone, they say

World Population Day: call to end India's target-based approach to family planning

Two-child norm is endangering women's lives and skewing sex-ratio, say activists

SC gives Centre six weeks to file response on illegal clinical trials

Around 2,000 people who underwent clinical trials in India have died since 2008

Organ transplantation act to regulate tissue transplantation too

 New Act expected to improve quality of treatment

New swine flu kit makes disease detection easier in India

Portable testing kit gives results within an hour