The World Health Organisation (WHO) has put in place a mechanism to define counterfeit medical products.

The set of definitions of sub-standard, spurious, falsely labelled, falsified and counterfeit products will be globally accepted and help to bring about uniformity in identifying such drugs, without interrupting worldwide supplies. The decision to establish a member state mechanism was taken at the World Health Assembly, the WHO's policymaking body, at a meeting held recently.

The Madras High Court has upheld the validity of a notification issued by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on March 16 last year banning the manufacture, sale and distribution of Gat

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is considering creation of National Commission for Human Resource in Health (NCHRH), an over arching regulatory body for the health sector, with the

GUWAHATI: the World Health Organization (WHO) will observe the 12th World No Tobacco Day. This year WHO has selected ‘Tobacco Industry Interference’ as the theme.

Article 5.3 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) requires all parties when setting and implementing their public health policies with respect to tobacco control “to protect these policies from commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry in accordance with national law”.

The government is planning to make cancer a “notifiable disease”, which will mean every case will have to be reported. Till now infectious diseases like polio, plague, H1N1, H5N1 (bird flu) figure in the list of notifiable diseases. Recently, tuberculosis was made a notifiable disease. Cancer would become the first non-communicable disease to be included in the same category.

Officials in the Union health ministry disclosed that government is seriously considering to make cancer a notifiable disease and the decision in this regard will be taken very soon.

LUCKNOW: National Rural Health Mission's Project Approval Board has given UP more than what it asked for.

LUCKNOW: The state government will make a presentation on the National Rural Health Mission before the Union health ministry's project approval board on Thursday.

Under attack over the functioning of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare today claimed to have “already taken several steps” to plug the loopholes in the system.

Reacting to a standing committee report on the functioning of CDSCO, tabled in Parliament yesterday, the ministry said it was examining the observations. “After receipt of inputs from CDSCO on the report and thorough its scrutiny, appropriate action would be taken by the ministry wherever required,” the statement said.

With cases of MDR and XDR tuberculosis being reported from various parts of the country, the Union Health Ministry has decided to make TB a notifiable disease.

Even as some States have reported outbreak of A(H1N1) influenza, the Centre has said that since the virus is circulating in the community, border control measures, such as entry screening at airports, ports and railway and bus stations, is not essential.

The influenza has been reported from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu, and some of these and their neighbouring States are resorting to screening at entry points.