29th June 2013

India has the highest number as well as proportion of children who are underweight and who suffer from stunting. And yet, India has no current data on the nutritional status of its population. The data available is almost a decade old since the national family health survey, which collects nutritional data, was last done in 2005-06. 


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Hyderabad: 29th June 2013

The recent changes in the regulatory framework for conducting clinical trials were aimed at ensuring safety and efficacy of drugs on humans, Deputy Drugs Controller of India S.E.Reddy said here on Friday. 
Speaking at a pharma conference organised by ASSOCHAM here, he said the rules were amended because the ethics committees were not functioning effectively.

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28th June 2013

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today approved the proposal of the Department of Health Research under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for the setting up of 10 regional labs, 30 State level labs and 120 medical college level labs under the scheme for establishing a network of laboratories for managing epidemics and natural calamities.

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New Delhi: 27th June 2013

The contentious issue of how prices of expensive patented drugs in the country should be controlled would now be decided by an inter-ministerial panel.  In addition to the department of pharmaceuticals, other likely members in this panel include ministry of health and family welfare, department of industrial policy and promotion, department of commerce. This group would either be headed by the Pharma department or the Planning commission

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Guwahati: 26th June 2013

The state social welfare department is going to start a nutrition mission to bring down the rate of women and children suffering from malnutrition in the state, which is around 39 per cent at present, to at least 25 per cent by 2016.

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New Delhi: 25th June 2013

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has set up an expert group work out a strategy to ensure eradication of wild poliovirus and minimise the risk of emergence and circulation of Vaccine-Derived Polio Virus (VDPV) in the country.

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New Delhi: 24th June 2013

Dismayed at the Census 2011 figures that highlighted the decline in child sex ratio (0-6 years) to 914 girls for every 1,000 boys as compared to 927 in 2001, over 200 civil society organisations this past week joined hands with the National Foundation for India (NFI) in launching a campaign against the trend.

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Koraput: 21st June 2013

The infant mortality rate (IMR) and maternal mortality rate (MMR) in 11 Maoist-hit districts including the Kalahandi-Balangir-Koraput (KBK) region were alarming, Union health secretary Keshav Desiraju said. Balangir tops IMR, among the 11 districts, with 98 per 1,000 live births followed by Kandhamal at 86 against the state average of 59.

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Thiruvananthapuram: 20th June 2013

The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has chosen Palakkad as a high priority district,followedby Wayanad and Malappuram in the state, to implement its Call to Action plan to addresschild mortality and maternal issues in the wake of Attapadi malnutrition deaths. The agency plans to take the programme forward after a meeting with the state government officials on June21.

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Coimbatore: 18th June 2013

Located about 25 km from the city in Anaikatti hillock, a highland in the Western Ghats where even the most essential of commodities is supplied only once a day, is a multi-specialty hospital that is providing healthcare, round-the-clock, completely free-of-cost to the tribal population of two States.

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