A controversial tobacco ruling has been stayed by India’s Supreme Court, leading public health advocates to rejoice – and the tobacco industry to fume. Last year, the Karnataka High Court (KHC) ruled against a Union health ministry directive which said pictorial health warnings had to cover 85 percent of the display area on tobacco product …
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Controversy continues over the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine used to prevent cervical cancer in women. Reports suggest India’s health ministry will not include it under the country’s universal immunisation programme (UIP). Estimates suggest 1 in 53 women in India will develop cervical cancer in their lifetime. It is believed 423.2 million women aged fifteen and …
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Up to ninety percent of Indians suffering with mental health issues do not receive any kind of healthcare for the condition, says President Ram Nath Kovind. Without any kind of intervention for this, he believes India will be subject to a mental health epidemic in years to come. This comment comes amidst growing numbers of …
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In a remarkable feat of Indian innovation, electrocardiograms (ECGs) may now become more readily available to those in rural environments. This has the potential diagnose many people who would otherwise unknowingly suffer from heart conditions, without the need to travel to specialist hospitals. Scientists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center — a group of individuals …
India takes a defiant stance against patent laws proposed by the Regional Cooperation on Economic Partnership (RCEP) that could see it lose its trading advantage as the “pharmacy of the developing world”. Hundreds of Indian officials have taken part in RCEP negotiations in South Korea in late October. The negotiations covered a potential free trade …
Drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) is on the rise, threatening to make an already deadly disease near untreatable. While India may be formulating plans to combat the disease, is it providing the financial backing to make them a possibility? TB is causing ever more concerning headlines. 10.4 million new cases of TB were noted by the …
Can new genomic projects in India increase India’s practically non-existent presence in global gene databanks? The Genome India Project was launched on October 24 at the Institute of Bioresources & Sustainable Development (IBSD), Manipur. The project will involve comprehensive data resources mapping the genomes of Indians in the North Eastern Region (NER) with the intention …
Official figures on abortions in India underestimate the number of terminations by a factor of 20 according to a new study published in The Lancet. Almost eight in ten abortions happen because a woman takes a combination of medicines to end her pregnancy. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare reported 701,415 abortions in 2015, …
Only 22 percent of India’s abortions take place in health facilities Read More »
Indian pharmaceutical companies will face tighter scrutiny following an ‘unprecedented’ agreement between US and EU agencies. This does not seem to be worrying industry insiders, however. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) signed an agreement of mutual recognition with a number of European Union member states in October last year. This saw the …
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Delhi unveils its latest weapon in the fight against the city’s air pollution crisis: a smog cannon. It is an intervention that has failed everywhere else that it has been tried. A trial run of the anti-smog gun, which is manufactured by Haryana-based firm Cloud Tech, took place on December 20 in East Delhi. Imran …
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