INDORE: While the Union government on Tuesday provided an updated list of 44 clinical trial victims compensated in between 2005 and 2012, experts have raised fingers over the institutional ethics c

The National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) will be launched in Bangalore on a pilot basis in the coming months.

The State Health department has already prepared the Project Implementation Plan (PIP) for Bangalore City and submitted it to the Union Ministry for Health and Family Welfare. With the Union Budget for the year 2013-2014 tabled on Thursday, the urban health mission launch process is expected to be accelerated.

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JAIPUR: A four-member team of health officials from Centre, who arrived in Jaipur on Tuesday, found the swine flu situation in the state 'alarming' but expressed satisfaction on the state's prepare

The good news is that the fall of vultures in South Asia, particularly India, has stopped and is even reversing in the case of some species such as the white-backed vulture.

A research paper in journal Science , titled “Pollution, politics and vultures,” says the 2006 ban on manufacture, import and sale of painkiller diclofenac for veterinary use, a cause for vulture mortality, and the timely response of the governments in India have helped.

110 deaths since January; 148 since April 2012; 586 since 2009

The Rajasthan Government on Monday cautioned about rising incidence of swine flu (H1N1) in the State and sought Central assistance even as the Bharatiya Janata Party accused the Government of not being serious about addressing the epidemic-like situation. The virus has claimed over 110 lives in the State this year while 148 people have died of the disease since April 2012. Since 2009, when the epidemic first broke out in the state, a total of 586 people have succumbed to the disease.

Forms four expert panels to draft permission guidelines

Following more than 2,200 deaths in clinical trials in the past five years, the government has finally set up four expert committees to streamline approvals and evolve standard operating procedures for marketing of drugs in India, which are discovered abroad. The move comes following Supreme Court's observation that the Ministry of Health was watching meekly as the unregulated clinical trial sector played "havoc" with the people.

A 27-year-old man from Delhi succumbed to the H1N1 virus at RML hospital on Wednesday, taking the death toll due to the virus to five in the national capital this year.

Doctors said the patient, who was referred from a nursing home to RML hospital in the first week of February, had developed a lung infection. According to doctors at RML hospital, the man had been kept at the isolation ICU in the hospital for the last few days. "The patient had severe accompanying lung infection, which complicated matters. We had put him on strong antibiotics, in addition to the Tamiflu dose for the H1N1 infection. But he died of multi-organ failure on Wednesday," a doctor at the hospital said.

Delhi reported 3 deaths this week, 132 persons died from January 1 to February 6

Even as H1N1 cases are on the rise, the Union Health Ministry has said the situation is well under control and is being monitored. Delhi has reported three deaths this past week, while 132 deaths took place from January 1 to February 6, besides over 700 cases of confirmed influenza across the country.
Rajasthan reported 65 deaths and over 300 confirmed cases of influenza during this period, while 23 deaths were reported from Haryana, 17 from Gujarat and 16 from Punjab. Some deaths have also been reported from Maharashtra, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

“Maternal and child health indicate the robustness of our health sector”

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday accorded due appreciation to the fact that the country’s under-five mortality rate has declined much faster than the global average, but agreed that the challenge was to bring down neonatal mortality. Speaking at the inauguration of a national summit ‘Call to Action — Child Survival and Development,’ Mr. Azad noted with pride that there was a quantum jump in the annual rate of decline in the recent past. Also, the decline in child deaths in rural areas and in the States with weak health indicators was both sharp and steady.