The recently-announced "free drugs for all" initiative by the Centre could lead to the long-pending national pharmaceutical policy getting cleared.

The government and the MCI dither on a proposed course to provide better primary health care in villages.

Days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh proposed to launch an integrated health mission to pep up urban health, the Union health ministry has started giving final shape to the `17,000-crore National Urban Health Mission.

Senior officials in the health ministry revealed that EFC note has been finalised and will be circulated this week. The NUHM aims to benefit the urban poor in seven metros and 772 cities with a population of more than 50,000.

NEW DELHI: India will fail to achieve some of the most important Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets like reduction in maternal and child deaths, and increase in child immunization rates by 2

Agency won’t wait any longer for govt sanction.

JAIPUR: With an aim to strengthen the pregnancy and child tracking system (PCTS), which earned the state government a national award for e-governance for the year 2011-12 for its uniqueness and eff

The book highlights the challenges faced by users of the NRHM as well as those offering the delivery systems under the mission.

LUCKNOW: An NGO in Rae Bareli's Shivgarh area uses community mobilisation activities to save expectant mothers and neonates from untimely demise.

Even before the peak season of encephalitis, Acute Encephalitis Syndrome has already claimed 80 lives in Uttar Pradesh.

LUCKNOW: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has detected anomalies of around Rs 5,000 crore in the implementation of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in UP between 2007 and 2011 when