Cancer specialists and public health officials optimistic that incidence of cancer will come down
With the Union Health Ministry categorising pan masala and gutka as banned food products because they contain tobacco, there is fresh hope among cancer specialists and public health officials that incidence of cancer caused by these items will come down.

JAIPUR: India is close to eradicating polio, a dreaded disease of the 20th century. "Only one polio case was found in 2011, which means it will soon be eradicated," Dr Samlee Plianbangchang, regional director, WHO South East Asia Region (SEAR) told TOI.

South-East Asia Region Health Ministers meet in Jaipur
Meetings of the Health Ministers of South-East Asian Region (SEAR) and the 64th session of the regional committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) opened here on Tuesday with a call to the world to wake up to the challenges posed by overuse and misuse of antibiotics and the increasing threat to human health from non-communicable diseases.

The poor progress made by states in stemming the declining sex ratio (of the number of girls in the 0-6 age group for every 1,000 boys) in the country has prompted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to write to the 28 state chief ministers on the issue.

Even as the area around Parliament was swamped by crowds of Anna Hazare's supporters, demanding a stronger Lokpal Bill on Wednesday, a small group of environmental activists staged their own demonstration against a different bill, the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill, 2011.

New Delhi: Lesser children are now born in houses or outside hospitals in India with institutional deliveries picking up speed in the past two years.

The Uttar Pradesh government has served chargesheet to three senior officials of Department of Family Welfare for alleged irregularities in awarding contracts to Uttar Pradesh Small Industries Corp

Agartala: Tripura has witnessed a 23 per cent drop in the malaria cases as compared to 2009, a top health official said on Sunday.

ITANAGAR: Chief Minister Jarbom Gamlin has urged the Centre to give environmental clearances to various projects including numerous hydro power projects and the ambitious Trans Arunachal Highway pr