If numbers are to be believed, the incidence of deadly H1N1 virus in India seems to be dropping. Health Ministry statistics have lately shown a marked fall in the number of swine flu deaths and infections in India.

Azad asks young doctors to opt for postings in rural areas

The vaccine has reached the human clinical trial stage

68 students receive degrees at NIMHANS convocation

Bangalore:An indigenously developed vaccine against influenza could be a month away, according to Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad.

In the capital to honour Health Minister Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad with Rotary's Polio Champion Award and to participate in the national polio immunization launch, Ms. Rajashree Birla of Aditya Birla Group announced to donate additional Rs 5 crore to Rotary International for polio eradication campaign.

NEW DELHI: Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday launched the bivalent oral vaccine against polio in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh to mark the national immunisation day.

The vaccine was launched in Bihar last month and offers protection from the P1 and P3 types of polio strains.
Azad honoured

Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: With a view to providing access to good health care facilities to the common man, particularly railway passengers, the Ministries of Health and Family Welfare and Railways on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for developing health care infrastructure along the railway network across the country.

The health ministry is planning to screen all people aged 30-40 in rural areas for lifestyle diseases like diabetes, Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Friday.

With the pictorial warnings on tobacco products not making the desirable impact, the Union Health Ministry is considering replacing them with new hard-hitting images, which it expects to send the message home.

The Union health ministry is for the first time undertaking a `pharmacological genetic study' to find out the effects of medicinal drugs on different races in India
NEW DELHI The Union health Dec. 1: The Union health ministry is for the first time undertaking a "pharmacological genetic study" to find out the effects of medicinal drugs on different races in India.