New Delhi: It seems that another scandal is set to rock the Health Ministry. A CNN-IBN investigation has revealed that former Medical council of India (MCI) members, close to arrested former chief Ketan Desai, are being brought back into the Medical Council. The Board of Governors that was appointed to clean up the mess is under scrutiny. Two years after Ketan Desai's arrest and dissolution of the Medical Council of...
10:05 AM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: With cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis on the rise, the government has finally agreed to make this a notifiable disease. That means, every doctor will have to register each case. At least a thousand Indians die of tuberculosis every day. The biggest threat at this point is what experts call totally drug resistant TB, which is incurable, and highly contagious. Fifteen cases have been confirmed in Mumbai alone. But...
10:03 AM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Health Ministry has sacked Medical Council of India Secretary Sangeeta Sharma. This comes days after CNN-IBN reported how she was blocking investigations into the Medical council scam. "My appointment here is permanent. There is no question of deputation," Sharma earlier said. Days after Sharma made that statement on CNN-IBN - her services at the Medical Coucil of India office have been terminated. The decision comes close on...
06:47 AM, Mar 31, 2012
Home Ministry opposes gay sex, but Health Ministry says it will help HIV patients get medical help. ...
09:28 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Mumbai: British scientists conducting a study on superbugs in London have discovered that a highly rare genetic fusion is to blame for the superbug NDM1. This fusion has given NDM1 the power to easily jump between various species of bacteria at a superfast speed, consequently making it drug resistant. The scientists, who first reported the NDM1 last year, have now found that NDM1, by jumping between bacteria strains, can make...
10:06 AM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: The new regulations on onscreen smoking that were handed out ambitiously by the the Health Ministry have been stalled as the Information and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) has given in to the plea of the film makers, asking for their creative rights. The I&B Ministry has stayed the no smoking regulations by the Health Ministry. In a letter from the I&B ministry to the Health Ministry, it is clear...
09:49 AM, Dec 08, 2011
Mumbai: The Union Health Ministry has shelved for an indefinite period the much-awaited National Antibiotic Policy which would clamp down on the over-the-counter sale of antibiotics. After sitting on the proposed National Antibiotic Policy for more than an year, the Health Ministry has now decided to put it on hold indefinitely, citing concerns over access to medicines, in rural areas. Ghulam Nabi Azad, Health Minister, said, "It should me made...
09:47 AM, Oct 14, 2011
New Delhi: It's been a year since the Medical Council of India (MCI) was dissolved and its president Ketan Desai arrested. But it seems the rot in the MCI has yet to be cleaned out. A case in point is Dr Sangeeta Sharma, the senior most officer in the MCI. CNN-IBN accessed documents that prove that the Health Ministry raised questions about the validity of her appointment as secretary. In...
06:43 PM, Sep 09, 2011
New Delhi: Under flak for watering down pictorial warnings on tobacco products, and for coming under pressure from the tobacco lobby, for the first time the government is focusing on beedi smokers. It has planned a new ad campaign to start from Monday and wants to set up 5 labs to test beedi content. The Health Ministry's latest initiative to spread awareness on the ills of beedi smoking is a...
08:29 AM, Aug 01, 2011
New Delhi: Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday sparked off a debate by saying that homosexuality is 'unnatural' and a 'disease'. Speaking at an AIDS conference in New Delhi, Azad said that gay sex is unnatural and leads to more AIDS cases. He added that the phenomenon has been transported to India from 'foreign shores'. "The disease of 'Men having Sex with Men' (MSM), which was found more in...
07:11 AM, Jul 05, 2011
The Union Health Ministry has cleared a new set of pictorial warnings for tobacco products such as cigarettes, beedis, gutka, and cigars in India, which will be visible from December 1, 2011. ...
05:54 PM, May 28, 2011
New Delhi: After denying the existence of NDM-1 superbug in water in Delhi, ever since it was first mentioned in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, the government authorities have finally decided to conduct their own studies. The National Centre for Disease Control has planned to conduct a study on the drug-resistant bacteria. A high level meeting was held with top officials of NDMC, MCD and the Director General of Health...
03:29 PM, Apr 12, 2011
New Delhi: Union cabinet is likely to take a decision on a request from the tobacco industry to increase the duration of display of a set of pictorial warning in cigarette and other tobacco products. The Union Health Ministry approached the Cabinet for a direction in this regard to seek clarity about the demands being made by other ministries who are facing the brunt of decrease in tobacco production in...
03:24 PM, Dec 03, 2010
More than two lakh Indians require organ transplants every year but only ten percent manage to get them. ...
12:44 PM, Dec 02, 2010
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11:38 AM, Oct 29, 2010
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