Should a state where the healthcare budget is perpetually in strain spend Rs 33,000 on every girl for a vaccine that

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on human resource development(HRD) in their 31st Report on the functioning of the central government hospitals under the department of health, had expressed concern about inadequate facilities for the treatment of poor patients for major illnesses.

Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: Brinda Karat, MP and Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member, has asked Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to look into the issue of shortage of vaccines in the country and take steps to procure them in adequate quantities to avert a

Anita Joshua

NEW DELHI: The Government is planning to make diabetes and hypertension check-ups mandatory for rural India. This was disclosed here on Sunday by Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad while addressing the SAARC Diabetes Conference.
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Likely To See 87,000 Additional Cases Every Year In Men By 2020

India

Five more persons succumbed to swine flu while 178 fresh cases of the disease were reported from across the country on Tuesday.

With this, the number of deaths due to swine flu has reached 308 while those affected have crossed 10,000, according to the Union Health Ministry.

Sept. 18: Union health and family welfare minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said that the Centre favours therapeutic cloning (cloning of human tissues and organs) on a case-to-case basis. The minister also said that the Centre would soon come out with a bill on stem cell research and its application.

Mumbai: Maharashtra has the largest number of HIV-positive children in the country with fresh cases increasing 10-fold in the last three years.

Data released by the health and family welfare ministry shows 11,938 new cases were registered between November 2006 and May 2009, or 22% of India