Union Health & Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad launched the National AIDS Control Organisation's Red Ribbon Express Phase III here on Thursday.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Azad said it was satisfying that the innovative initiative of multimedia and multi-sectoral mass mobilisation project of Red Ribbon Express was commended globally as a unique example of its kind.

Mass public campaign a success but experts warn of need for continued vigilance

The Central government cannot prohibit or restrict “junk food” or “proprietary food” such as samosas, jalebis, pizzas and burgers, but will come up with guidelines to make available only healthy fo

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Food Safety Standards Authority of India to frame an effective policy and guidelines to ban sale of junk food and carbonated drinks in and around educ

“However, no dangerous adulterants found; it is safe for consumption”

NGOs have claimed that recent reports suggesting that one of the pictorial warnings for tobacco products resembles footballer John Terry could be an attempt by the manufacturers to scuttle the pictorial warnings once again.

In a recent RTI filed by the Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI), the issue was brought to the notice of Union health ministry earlier in November by Philip Morris, manufacturer of the leading cigarette brand Marlboro. “However, digging the issue once again now could be a deliberate move by the manufacturers to put the warnings in trouble.”

With the ministry of health having given the green signal for allograft or the transplanting of tissues from one person to another, a major push for tissue transplant was given at the 99th Indian S

With the “non-communicable diseases” high on agenda both at international and national level, the theme is widely publicised in 2012 wall calendar of the Union ministry of health and family welfare

The central government’s plans to introduce a new rule under the existing Drugs and Cosmetics Act to compensate clinical trial victims has been challenged before the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad

The infant mortality rate (IMR) has shown a 3 point decline, dropping from 50 deaths per 1,000 live births to 47 and moving a step closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) target