A fact-finding team from the Union Ministry of Health will start assessing the swine flu situation in Kerala which has reported 17 deaths and 207 laboratory confirmed cases since May 15. The deaths include nine pregnant women More...

The Centre plans to bring in regulation to reduce arbitrariness in private medical practice and to hold private hospitals and doctors accountable for every stage of the treatment they prescribe More...

The challenge is to honour every household’s right to quality healthcare. The Mission, which has set up a community monitoring system in nine states, now needs to make it universal before the end of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan so that local communities begin to demand healthcare as a right, says a review More...

A study to gauge the long-term effects and acceptability of the controversial cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil has run into trouble in India More...

Assam is possibly the first state in India to make it mandatory for all hospitals, including private hospitals and nursing homes, to provide free treatment, at least for the first 24 hours, to emergency patients. The government passed a Bill on March 31 to this effect More...

India has asked the World Health Organisation to explain media reports that swine flu was a “false pandemic”. Union health secretary K Sujatha Rao pointed out in Geneva that such news reports were adversely impacting the public health measures being undertaken by various countries More...

Acknowledging the scarcity of qualified doctors in rural India, the central government has decided to introduce a three-and-a-half-year medical course for doctors who will be posted at primary health centres and sub-centres that are currently manned by only one auxiliary nurse midwife More...

Project Concern International has gone beyond talking about HIV/AIDS to helping affected people earn a living. Forty-five per cent of its staff is HIV-positive More...

India has slipped behind all of Africa and Asia in combating measles, delaying action to bolster immunisation against the infection that kills an estimated 160,000 children in the country every year, say medical experts More...

It has been a year since former Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss put his foot down about smoking in public and made it a punishable offence. But, neither has there been an effective ban nor has the awareness programme brought about any significant change among smokers More...

A large human trial for the AIDS vaccine in Thailand has, for the first time, prevented HIV from spreading in 31.2% of those vaccinated More...

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