Are tea and biscuits unhealthy for us? The answer is yes, if you want to believe the new circular issued by health ministry. According to the note, tea and biscuits will be replaced by healthier snacks like gram, almonds and dates.
He also wrote to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday in this matter.
Going tough on Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS), including e-cigarettes, the health ministry has proposed to classify such alternative smoking devices as "drugs" under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, in a bid to ban their manufacture, sale, distribution and import.
"The proposal to convert 75 district hospitals into medical colleges in the third phase of the scheme has been sent for approval to the Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC), after which it will be sent to the Cabinet," a source said.
The court was hearing Johnson & Johnson's plea challenging the formula approved by the Centre for determining the compensation to patients who received faulty hip implants.
The committee is of the view that the premier medical institute has to have sufficient and most-efficient manpower.
The ministry had earlier this month made NEET, which was introduced in 2016 for admission to government and private medical colleges in India, mandatory for even those who wished to pursue medical courses in foreign universities.
Stents have been added to the National List of Essential Medicines and we are trying to put more medical devices in this list to ensure medicines and medical devices remain affordable, Health minister JP Nadda said
Kerala has been famous as the most literate state in India. But the godly state has defeated all other states of India in saving the newborn children. This means, the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) in Kerala has been brought down to 6
1,850 samples of drugs sold in India are found to be Not of Standard Quality (NSQ) while 13 were found spurious, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
In a move aimed at getting central government-run hospitals across the country to focus on adopting the Khadi culture, the government has asked hospitals including AIIMS to opt for purchase of Khadi products -- from soaps to doctors’ coats and bed an
The Health Ministry will start an awareness campaign on dengue and chikungunya in the wake of rising cases of the vector-borne diseases across the country, an official said on Wednesday. West Bengal has recorded
Over seven lakh Indians could succumb to cancer in 2016, with the figure expected to rise to 8.8 lakh by 2020, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed Parliament today. In a reply to
The government's ambitious ‘Mission Indradhanush’ programme, which provides immunisation against seven life threatening diseases, is all set to be re-christened as four new vaccines have been added into it.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court abstained from passing an order on the appeal to legalise passive euthanasia and Living Will (the Constitutional right of terminally-ill persons to elongate their lives with the aid of life
New Delhi: The Union Health ministry has approved the Medical Council of India's (MCI) recommendation to amend Medical Council of India Act, 1956, paving the way to decide on the common entrance test format.The amendments
India is the abode of 60 % of world's leprosy affected people. Leprosy is an infectious disease that causes severe, disfiguring skin sores and nerve damage in the arms and legs.According to the National Leprosy
New Delhi: Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda on Friday launched a number of e-health initiatives, including 'Kilkari' that will provide information on child care through mobile phone.A family expecting the birth of a child can
New Delhi: Stating that "over-involvement' has in the past led to "crisis" for AIIMS, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said that the Health Ministry should play a supportive role to encourage the institution without getting
New Delhi: The NHRC has issued notice to the union health ministry and the Delhi government over a 10-year-old boy losing his leg after he was denied timely treatment, an official said on Friday.A shard
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