Health News

Polio rears its head again in western Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh health authorities will launch special rounds of the polio eradication drive, especially in Badaun and its adjoining district, after the reappearance of the highly infectious polio strain virus - P1 - for the second time, officials said Monday.10:30 PM on July 28

New sex education module to stress on abstinence: NACO

Condom and safe sex are terms that will find no mention in the new sex education module being devised for school students in India. It will instead stress on abstinence, the National Aids Control Organisation (NACO) announced Monday.10:02 PM on July 28

India, Brazil, South Africa to push for health cooperation

The health ministers of India, Brazil and South Africa will meet here Monday and Tuesday to push forward their cooperation in the health sector.8:33 PM on July 27

Attacks on hospitals inhumane, say Delhi doctors

The medical community here has termed as an 'inhumane act' the targeting of hospitals in Saturday's serial blasts in Ahmedabad, and has condemned the attacks.6:30 PM on July 27

The sorry state of Delhi's women labourers

They live and work in the capital, but the city's 200,000 women labourers - most of whom work at construction sites - along with their children are some of the worst sufferers when it comes to health indices.11:00 AM on July 27

700,000 pain-relieving tablets seized in Himachal

Over 700,000 pain-relieving tablets were seized from a drug manufacturing company in Himachal Pradesh for using a name and packaging material similar to a well-known pharmaceutical firm's product, the police said Saturday.6:33 PM on July 26

Harkishen Singh Surjeet in hospital again

Former Communist Party of India-Marxist(CPI-M) general secretary Harkishen Singh Surjeet was admitted Saturday in Noida's Metro hospital for the second time in the last two months.3:30 PM on July 26

Eye surgeon bags international fellowship

Aligarh Muslim University lecturer Ali Raza Rizvi, an eye surgeon, has bagged the international fellowship of the International Council of Ophthalmology, Britain, an official said Friday.5:07 PM on July 25

Malnutrition deaths in Madhya Pradesh continuing, say activists

As many as 13 malnutrition deaths have taken place in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh in the last two months, say child rights activists.10:31 AM on July 25

Doctors take out long, rusted nail from skull of youth

In a medical marvel, surgeons at a Meerut hospital successfully removed an eight-cm-long nail from the skull of a youth that he had himself rammed into his head in order to end his life.1:01 AM on July 25

Government approves National Mission on Medicinal Plants

The government Thursday sanctioned Rs.6.3 billion for creating a National Mission on Medicinal Plants.9:30 PM on July 24

Haryana to train more nurses for foreign shores

Responding to the increased demand for Indian nurses in other countries, the Haryana Overseas Placement Bureau (OPB) has decided to start three more training centres for nurses in the state.8:01 PM on July 24

Government to set up stem cell research unit in Bangalore

Giving a fillip to regenerative medicine, the union cabinet Thursday decided to set up an Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine in Bangalore.7:31 PM on July 24

Spurious liquor kills three of a family in Chhattisgarh

Three members of Chhattisgarh's Pahari Korba tribal community, all from the same family, died after drinking spurious liquor in the state's Surguja district, an official said Thursday.2:31 PM on July 24

Uttar Pradesh to deliver AIDS medicine home

The Uttar Pradesh State AIDS Control Society (UPSACS) will establish new anti-retroviral therapy centres (ARTCs) in 25 districts to deliver AIDS medicine to sufferers at home, said an official here Wednesday.8:31 PM on July 23