Clean chit for drug minus monitoring
The government may clear Nimesulide, used commonly for providing relief in pain and fever, as a safe drug, with doctors also willing to give it a clean chit. However, Bangladesh has decided to ban
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Tribal, rural people lack access to basic healthcare
The lop-sided development of the country,where people in rural and tribal areas continue to live without basic access to education and health care, was the main concern raised at the national
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State focus on healthcare system
The West Bengal government is trying to regain its fame in healthcare, state health minister Dr Surya Kanta Misra said at the inauguration of a spiral CT scan centre at the SSKM Hospital. The
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Mission to control population makes headway
The Rajasthan government has succeeded in providing a sound support base to the agencies implementing the population stabilisation programmes to enable them to achieve the goals and objectives of the
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CM inaugurates telemedicine network
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa inaugurated a 'telemedicine network', connecting the Chennai based Anna University and about 35 engineering colleges round the state, to extend high
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New hospital hope for cancer cure in Howrah
A comprehensive cancer treatment centre will start operations in Howrah. With the induction of separate oncology wing to the People's MediTreat Private Ltd. as 65 bed hospital on Netaji Subhas Road
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Focus on disease burden in preparing report: WB
The World Bank advised the consultative group involved in preparing the 'State of environment' report for Andhra Pradesh to take note of disease burden due to traditional and modern environmental
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CS to monitor polio drive
Polio has been controlled to a large extent in the Madhya Pradesh state. In 2000-2001, the state considered as medium burden state in terms of spread of polio virus and only two rounds of polio
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UN award for promoting herbals
Forest and Environment Minister R Vaithilingam announced that Tamil Nadu, along with four other Southern States and the Bangalore based Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Tradition, has
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Strategy to curb iodine deficiency disorders
Initiation of programmes to control iodine deficiency disorders on a large scale in all districts of the Andhra Pradesh state, strict regulation of the production and sale of non-iodised salt and
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Noida gets icu for liver, digestive diseases
"To make Noida a 'Hepatitis-B free zone' and for the eradication of liver related diseases, vaccination must be administered on mass scale," said Dr Anurag Tondon while speaking on the second Annual
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Bayer gets FDA nod for Cipro pill
Germany's Bayer AG said the US Food and Drug Administration had approved a new once-a-day version of antibiotic Cipro, its single biggest pharmaceutical product. Bayer said the new formulation of the
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Public health units use banned vaccines to treat dog bites
There has been no increase in the incidence of rabies in Belgaum district, Karnataka. People bitten by street dogs are the most unfortunate as there are no modern anti-rabies vaccine available here.
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Pesticide behind killer disease?
Saharanpur district has been in the grip of a mysterious disease for the last two months. Some call it Japanese encephalitis spread by the mosquitos, but now there is another dimension to the
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Brazil's new agriculture minister sees GM corn imports
Brazil's new agriculture minister Roberto Rodrigues said Monday that Brazil would need to import corn next year from transgenic growers, such as the United States and Argentina, to feed its
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There is no money for giving bonus to farmers
At a meeting with the mandarins of the finance department, Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh is said to have directed the officials to ensure availability of funds for the cotton monopoly
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Japan tightens rules on Astra's cancer drug
Japan's health Ministry has said it is imposing stricter rules on the use of the lung cancer drug Iressa, which it says has been linked to 124 deaths as of December
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HC directs MCD to give tags to cattle
Apart from posing a threat to motorists, stray cattle that throng the roads in the Capital speak volumes of negligence and apathy from their owners. The High Court came to the rescue of these animals
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After drought, shortage of fodder hits farmers
The after effects of drought this year are still being felt by the residents in the Faridabad region, especially the farmers. The farmers, whose khariff crop production has been adversely affected,
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Prez for second Green Revolution
President A P J Abdul Kalam, called for a second Green Revolution in the country to feed millions of hungry bellies and create food security in the wake of depressing predictions that the total