The government is likely to announce setting up of a national programme to deal with the danger posed by Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) on Tuesday.

Officials in the Union health ministry disclosed that the GoM, which is slated to meet on Tuesday, is likely to announce the programme as had in-principle decided of it earlier.

Kerala is facing a shortage of Vitamin A, which is administered to children below five as a supplementation.

Faced with criticism on its clinical trial regulations, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has undertaken a slew of measures to streamline them, the most important being a proposed change in

Faced with an overall immunisation rate of 61 per cent and with even poster state Tamil Nadu steadily slipping, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare plans to designate 2012-13 as the year of “

Dismissing reports of the deaths of children after administration of pentavalent vaccine in Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Pakistan as unrelated, the Centre has decided to introduce this vaccine as part of

Wants to take control of medicine price regulator from the chemicals ministry.

Bezawada — Vijayawada is better known by that name — is the first feature film to carry health warnings on every smoking scene as required under the just notified second amendment of the Rules of t

Over five years after the Union health ministry finalised the draft of the HIV/AIDS Bill, it is likely to see the light of day.

“The HIV/AIDS Bill that is still pending with the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry should be tabled and passed in the ongoing winter session of Parliament.” This was a sentiment echoed by s

“We aim to immunise all children in the age group of nine months to 10 years irrespective of their immunisation status.