New Delhi A formula to determine the financial compensation that victims of clinical trials would be entitled to has been proposed by the health ministry.

In case of death resulting from clinicals trials, the deceased’s age, income, seriousness and severity of the disease he was suffering from at the time of enrolling into the trial is expected to be taken into account. In case of an injury that has resulted from clinical trials, an additional factor — the percentage of permanent disability — would be measured to arrive at the financial compensation that the clinical trial victim is entitled to.

Mandatory ethics panel oversight, explanation within 30 days of a death & compensation rules coming

The Union health ministry and the drug regulator’s office are preparing to introduce norms and notifications to monitor clinical trials in a better way. In the wake of criticism of the existing guidelines, the ministry has planned to make it mandatory for every clinical trial site to have an internal ethics committee. It wants these committees to be registered with the drug regulator. The ministry is also working on norms for payment of timely compensation to victims in such trials.

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Union Ministry for Health and Family Welfare and the Department of Telecommunication on a pubic interest litigation seeking a direction to remove mobile phone towers from residential premises and public places and ban their installation at these sites in future.

A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw asked the Ministry and the Department to file replies to the petition by August 9, the next date of hearing.

New Delhi: The National Family Health Survey, India’s primary source of health and nutrition data, is back on.

KOHIMA: Nagaland State has earned the unenviable position of being ranked second among Indian states in terms of tobacco consumption, next to another small North-eastern State Mizoram.

According to latest survey conducted by Global Adult Tobacco, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW), every second man and every third women in Nagaland is addicted to tobacco.

A suo motu study on drug pricing by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs has revealed exorbitant profit margins on 21 common drugs manufactured by Indian companies.

New Delhi A suo motu study on drug pricing by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs has revealed exorbitant profit margins on 21 common drugs manufactured by Indian companies.

Even as the Health Ministry has introduced a series of amendments to the organ transplant Act to give a boost to the national programme, the budget for the National Organ Transplantation Programme

Phone towers in India emit very strong radiations. With rising concern about their role in certain types of cancer, government has decided to cut radiation limits to a tenth from Sept 1.

Delhi High Court notices to AIIMS, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre on researcher's petition

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the Union Ministry for Health and Family Welfare, the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences and the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) on a petition by a researcher seeking a direction to the BARC to perform a scan to measure the extent of nuclear radiation in his body.