New Delhi: With the samples of a nine-year-old boy, who arrived in Hyderabad on Sunday night from New Jersey through London, testing positive on Tuesday, the number of confirmed cases of H1N1 virus in India has gone up to 31. The boy was detected with flu-like symptoms at the Hyderabad airport and sent to the isolation ward at the chest hospital in the city.

Allaying Fears, Minister Says Enough Stock Of Tamiflu Available In Country

New Delhi: A concerned health ministry reiterated its plea to Indians asking them to desist from travelling to swine-flu affected countries till the pandemic was brought under control.

Aarti Dhar
NEW DELHI: Though the World Health Organisation on Thursday declared an A (H1N1) influenza pandemic, putting the affected countries on the highest alert, India continues to be in the

New Delhi: While the Union Health Ministry waits for May 31 to put in practice its ambitious plan of pictorial warnings on all tobacco products, the move to ban smoking in public places seems to have paid rich dividends. Hefty fine amounts collected since the ban was imposed from October 2 last year indicate the strict enforcement of the ban.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked for the records of a meeting of Group of Ministers on the issue of pictorial health warnings on cigarette and beedi packs to examine the charge of former health minister Anbumani Ramadoss that the minutes of the meeting were changed to benefit the tobacco industry.

Legal Correspondent

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned the Centre

In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former Union health minis- ter and Member of Parliament Dr Anbumani Ramadoss has highlighted his

Govt Decision To Stock 10 M Doses Means Rs 250-Cr Biz For Pharma Cos

THE ministry of health & family welfare will stockpile 10 million doses of anti-viral drug oseltamavir in the next seven days as a precautionary measure against a possible outbreak of swine flu, which has been officially reported in 11 countries so far.

New Delhi: Even as the deadly H1N1 swine flu virus claimed its first victim outside Mexico (in Texas) on Wednesday and Germany became the latest country to report an infection, India started gearing up to have the capacity to protect 30 lakh people in case of a flu outbreak.