The Indian government denies that the country has ‘missed the bus’ in the ongoing global trial of H1N1 flu vaccine, while announcing that one company has positively responded to its proposal for conducting human trials on Indians for ‘bridge study’ so that the vaccine could be made available in the country sometime between December 2009- February 2010 More...

Only a quarter of those in need of HIV treatment in the Asia-Pacific region are getting it. Around 4,000 experts have gathered in Bali to discuss and strategise on how to take the fight against AIDS further More...

A 14-year-old girl in Pune, Maharashtra, has become the country’s first swine flu-related death. Overall, India has reported 558 cases of swine flu, says the health ministry More...

The Maharashtra government has been slow in enforcing patients’ rights and legislation to regulate nursing homes, leaving it to NGOs like the Jan Arogya Abhiyan to set up a patients’ forum and draw up a charter of rights More...

The spread of the H1N1 virus to 74 countries, including India, has raised the alert level sounded by the world health body, which is a signal to governments to intensify efforts to deal with the disease More...

The National AIDS Control Organisation and the Transport Corporation of India have teamed up to launch a programme in 131 locations to raise awareness and promote safe sex among truck drivers More...

A new proposal that will bring down the cost of HIV/AIDS drugs requires patent holders to voluntarily offer their intellectual property to a “patent pool” for use by manufacturers of generic drugs, under a licensing arrangement More...

A recent article in The Lancet argues that the sheer reach and size of donations by the Gates Foundation to various health initiatives worldwide gives it enormous policy leverage and power in setting the health agenda in many countries More...

The smoke seems to have finally cleared over the issue of warnings that will display a picture of a scorpion, indicating cancer, and a diseased lung on tobacco products with the Supreme Court taking an undertaking from the Union government that the law will be implemented from May 31 More...

Children whose mothers are shorter than four feet, nine inches are 70% more likely to die than those whose mothers are at least five feet, three inches tall says a study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health More...

A parliamentary panel has rubbished sex education in schools, slammed the Ministry of Human Resource Development’s Adult Education Programme and denied that children between 14 and 18 years are at high risk of contracting HIV, despite evidence to the contrary More...

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