With the rapid population growth and the ever-increasing number of vehicles on the roads, the Pink City of Jaipur is witnessing an alarming rise in the pollution levels. A recent study conducted by
A recent strike by hospital workers in the Capital has brought into focus the dangers posed by hazardous hospital wastes to public health and environment. There is no law to deal with the problem and
The WHO Director General, Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, today called on the Finance Minister, Mr. Yashwant Sinha, and made out a cause for placing health at the core of the development agenda. The WHO
While the spread of dropsy has been contained after it claimed 49 lives over six weeks, largely due to ban on sale and consumption of mustard oil, experts have adviced restraint for some more time,
A medical team, comprising a skin specialists, a Professor of Social and preventive Medicine, a micro-biologist and the District Medical and health Officer, left Visakhapatnam on Monday for
The Delhi High Court today issued show cause notices to the Union Health and Environment Ministries and the Delhi Health Department on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) Petition seeking a blanket
A new surgical technique to save gangrenous limbs has been developed by the Jalandhar based Tagore Heart Care and Research Centre. Surgeons in the department of cardiac surgery had used the technique
The 16th annual meeting of Health Ministers of the World Health Organisation being held in Delhi, India concluded on Saturday, appealed to the WHO to take steps to ensure that the valauable
The India office of the UNFPA has proposed to hold a series of consultations to review the progress of the various elements of the national population and reproductive health and other social
