The AIDS Society of India says low-cost HIV/AIDS drugs will soon be made available in India More...

On October 24, World Polio Day, India had something to cheer about. The country has reported “record low” polio cases in 2010 -- 39 as against 498 last year. The endemic states of Bihar and UP saw a drastic decline in the number of cases More...

Malaria is killing more Indians than estimated, says a study reported in the medical journal The Lancet, which puts malarial deaths at 2.05 lakh each year -- 13 times the World Health Organisation estimate of 15,000 deaths a year More...

In an open letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, health activists have asked him to intervene to stop the sale of Indian pharma companies to MNCs, and outlined steps the government must take to ensure access to medicines for the 65% of Indians who currently have no access to them More...

A new report by international agencies suggests that compulsory licensing may be the way forward for India to provide second- and third-line antiretroviral therapy to the over 1 million patients that are currently not covered More...

In a new commentary, scientists have reviewed the fates of previous pandemic influenza viruses in the years following a pandemic, and speculated on possible future courses for the 2009 pandemic H1N1 virus during the upcoming flu season and beyond More...

Sonography centres across the state will soon have to fall in line and install a special device called a ‘silent observer’ in pregnancy test machines to help curb female foeticide More...

The Delhi High Court has criticised the Union government for introducing “irrational” vaccines without conducting research, directing it to consider every aspect before including a vaccine into the national immunisation programme More...

The government’s licensing authority for medical drugs has served notice on Indian scientists involved in the ‘superbug’ study published last month, asking them to explain how they collected samples for the research and transported them abroad More...

Sickle cell anaemia, a blood disorder, can be extremely painful and cuts life expectancy drastically. The disease is on the rise and is affecting more families than before in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh More...

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is planning to form a specialised public health cadre comprising people specially trained to effectively deal with the prevention and management of both communicable and non-communicable diseases More...

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