New Delhi: 31st August 2012

Four more cases have been registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the alleged irregularities in the use of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) funds in Uttar Pradesh. The agency, which has registered 18 cases so far pertaining to the alleged scam, conducted searches at over a dozen places in Delhi, Ghaziabad, Agra and Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, besides Rudrapur in Uttarakhand and Vapi in Gujarat.

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New Delhi: 31st August 2012

The Union Ministry for Women & Child Development has consulted the Planning Commission to re-look and re-haul its anganwadi centres and fine-tune them to meet the changing challenges of women and child welfare activities that it conducts across the country. 

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31st August 2012

The Planning Commission’s draft 12th Plan for health has attracted much debate and controversy. Critics have been quick to direct their attention at two issues in it — the proposed increase in government health spending from one per cent to 1.58 per cent of GDP, and the “managed care model.”

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New Delhi: 31st August 2012

The Congress and civil society groups on Thursday attacked Gujarat CM Narendra Modi for his controversial remarks attributing the high rate of malnutrition in his state to figure-conscious young girls.

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Kolkata: 31st August 2012

The number of confirmed dengue cases in West Bengal has gone up to 517, of which two patients including a nine-year-old girl have died, the state health department said Thursday. "Two people have died of dengue and the total number of cases is 517. In Kolkata alone, there are 323 cases of dengue," said a health department statement.

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New Delhi: 31st August 2012

Criticized for tardy probe progress coupled with acute shortage of officers to investigate cases, the CBI got a relief in National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam investigations as the Uttar Pradesh government has constituted a special court for all the health scheme fraud cases.

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New Delhi: 30th August 2012

Lok Nayak (LN) Hospital, in association with Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC), will start prenatal tests of foetuses for haemophilia — a first in any Delhi government hospital. Pregnant women will be first put through a genetic screening to check if they are carriers of haemophilia. After that, foetuses of those who test positive will be put through a DNA test to check for the disease that has no permanent cure.

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New Delhi: 30th August 2012

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that a consultant had been tasked to frame guidelines on making available quality and safe food in schools.

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30th August 2012

A team of U.S. scientists has identified a new and surprising way in which those with the gene that causes sickle cell disease are protected from the ravages of malaria. People who develop sickle cell disease have inherited from both parents defective versions of a gene for haemoglobin, the iron-containing protein in red blood cells that transports oxygen from the lungs to tissues in the body.

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Balaghat (Madhya Pradesh): 30th August 2012

In a startling revelation, official sources said here on Wednesday that 3,200 women went for sex determination tests to the neighbouring Gondia district in Maharashtra. The information was provided by the Maharashtra Health Department to Balaghat officials after reports that a large number of women were taking gender determination tests in Gondia.

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