No lip service on junk food ban: Delhi HC
Asks Centre to file an action taken report by November 2
Government bans blood test for TB
Move comes a year after WHO said the test leads to misdiagnosis
Health ministry sets timeframe for keeping animals treated with antibiotics out of food chain
Antibiotics used for therapeutic purposes in animals to carry details of withdrawal period
Standard treatment guidelines soon
Will help streamline treatment procedures across government hospitals
Is India really open-defecation-free? Here’s what numbers say
15% of the total population in India defecates in the open in India, according to WASH report 2021
Doctors absent in flood-hit areas
Hospitals have not got green signal for deploying teams; state government unclear of medical help actually needed
Measles catch-up campaign falls short of expectation
Health ministry officials say impact of the campaign will show results later
Make unethical drug trials a punishable offence, say experts
Current laws do not fix penalty if such practices are found
India in midst of a nasty H3N2 outbreak — worst of seasonal flu viruses
Three deaths reported so far this season; the virus wreaked havoc in United States in 2018 as well
Court revoking ban on cough remedy worries health activists
They say continuing availability of the drug poses health risk
Clinical trials: illogical compensation formula
Health ministry finally drafts formula to compensate victims of drug trials. Experts wary; say formula is shoddy and ill-conceived
Health ministry hiding facts in Indore clinical trial case?
Only one patients’ consent was not available, says health minister in Rajya Sabha
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
Junk food in schools: high court asks FSSAI to frame rules
Food standards authority says it has invited proposals for developing guidelines for making available quality food in school canteens
ASHAs not enough to deliver healthcare to urban poor: study
'Women in urban slums need a basket of healthcare services to meet their needs'
New swine flu kit makes disease detection easier in India
Portable testing kit gives results within an hour
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
Totally drug resistant TB: government in denial mode
Health ministry deputes team to Mumbai; says neither WHO nor tuberculosis control programme recognise TDR-TB