Ahead of the World No Tobacco Day to be observed tomorrow

Ahead of the World No Tobacco Day to be observed on May 31, several top-notch schools in the Capital have declared themselves

The steep decline in the country

The government may make it mandatory for all doctors to write the generic or chemical name of drugs they prescribe, a move that can cut medicine costs by more than half.

Last year, the health ministry had asked doctors in over 300 central government hospitals, clinics and autonomous institutions under it to write the name of the generic equivalent along with the brand.
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Volunteers dispense naturally-prepared medicines

Namakkal: Volunteers trained under the AYUSH-Isha Organic Health System, a pilot project launched by Isha Outreach in collaboration with the department of AYUSH under the aegis of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, have been treating villagers in Kolli Hills for common diseases, using naturally-prepared medicines.

Delhi Health Minister A. K. Walia has said that the State Government would be enforcing the new Food Safety and Standard Act-2006 within the next three months, thereby ensuring heavy fine and punishment of up to life imprisonment for adulteration.

With 40 per cent health related problems caused by tobacco consumption in the country, the worried Union Health Ministry is seeking to introduce the tobacco cessation and control programme as part of the MBBS curriculum.

The Ministry has written to the Medical Council of India (MCI) for the first time with a perception that doctors can play a significant role in tobacco cessation among the affe

Expressing concern over the declining child sex ratio as indicated in the provisional figures of the Census 2011, civil society groups have asked the Centre to take cognisance of the increasing challenges in this area of sex selection and undertake urgent measures to overcome these.

As per the figures, the child sex-ratio has further dropped to 914 from 927 in 2001, registering a decline of 13

As climate change warms up the North East, malaria-causing mosquitoes threaten to open the disease