With over 2,000 people in India said to be dying every day from tobacco-related diseases, the government’s notification for more graphic pictorial health warnings on tobacco product packs from December 1, 2011, is long overdue More...

A report on ‘superbugs’ in Delhi’s water supply and warnings from the World Health Organisation about the growing incidence of drug resistant bacteria mark World Health Day More...

Tobacco products are still being sold outside schools and colleges in defiance of the law, a PIL alleged, prompting the court to order better policing, and directing the government to increase awareness about the dangers of smoking More...

In the absence of legislation on the controversial issue of euthanasia, the Supreme Court has stepped in and ruled that ‘active euthanasia’ or administering a lethal injection to end life cannot be permitted. The court was ruling in the case of 60-year-old Aruna Shanbaug who has been lying in a vegetative state for 37 years after being brutally attacked and raped More...

HIV prevalence has gone up from 28.1% to 34.9% among female sex workers in Mumbai and a few other districts in the country, according to a study of six vulnerable Indian states More...

The government has postponed a move to mandate dire warnings on cigarette packs by a year even as the Supreme Court orders it to do more to contain the tobacco menace More...

UNAIDS Global Report 2010 claims a 20% drop in the HIV/AIDS infection rate and death rate, with India halving its infection rate in the last 10 years More...

Expressing disappointment over the dismal rate of organ donation in the country, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has asked religious leaders to promote this noble cause More...

India carries the highest burden of tuberculosis in the world, with 2 million new cases in 2009, though government and NGOs have “remarkably scaled up their intervention,” says the World Health Organisation More...

The country’s drive to eradicate polio has been impressive -- reflected in a 95% reduction in the number of cases -- says a top official at the World Health Organisation More...

Inaugurating centenary celebrations at the Indian Council of Medical Research, one of the country’s oldest medical research bodies, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said that as the country moved from being a developing nation to a developed one, it had to face the challenge of communicable, non-communicable and re-emerging diseases More...

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