Indian Dental Association Had First Moved HC

Lucknow: Giving no respite to the state government or gutka manufacturers’ lobby, the Supreme Court upheld ban on sale, consumption and manufacture of gutka in Uttar Pradesh. The ban on gutka imposed by the Allahabad high court, therefore, came into effect on Monday evening. Principal secretary and commissioner, department of Food And Drug Administration Pravir Kumar confirmed the news stating, “The notification is already in place and it is now the duty of field officers to ensure implementation.”

New Delhi: The new law making it mandatory for all tobacco products to carry stricter pictorial warnings came into force on Monday but its implementation was not visible on the ground.

The Delhi Government launched three new schemes on Sunday in an attempt to achieve zero deaths from tuberculosis in the Capital. Minister of Health and Family Welfare A.K.

India may have achieved a success rate of 88 per cent in treatment of tuberculosis — higher than the global treatment success rate of 85 per cent — but HIV-TB co-infection continues to be a cause o

Prabhmol Singh loves the sun. Every day, when the 20-year-old wakes up, he hurries through the morning with an eye on the lone chair out on the balcony.

Swine flu cases have reached epidemic proportions in Gujarat with 121 deaths, most of them females between 15 and 45 years of age, during the past two-and-a-half months.

Besides, at least 652 people have been detected positive for H1N1 virus. In comparison, only 30 deaths were reported last year out of 101 cases that were reported.

Move comes in the wake of repeated slamming by the SC and the Parliamentary committee on health and family welfare

The government is considering framing a separate policy for the approval of medicines, as well as clinical trials conducted in India - in a move that is expected to strengthen regulation on the pharmaceutical industry and ensure patient safety in the country. The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has constituted a committee, headed by Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, advisor in the health ministry, to formulate a policy "for approval of new drugs, clinical trials and banning of drugs".

AHMEDABAD: The H1N1 virus's new avatar has just got deadlier than its initial version in 2009.

Monsoon in Gorakhpur seldom brings cheer. For the past 30 years, rains in the region are synonymous with children dying of encephalitis. 2012 witnessed 557 encephalitis deaths.

INDORE: Madhya Pradesh government is all set to introduce a 'controversial' vaccine whose efficacy is still being debated in the country and elsewhere as some deaths of children were reported after they were administered the vaccine.

Much against caution by experts', Madhya Pradesh is mulling to launch pentavalent vaccine in National Immunisation Programme that targets five infections including diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis-B and HiB (haemophilius influenzae type B).