Delhi: 29th September 2012

After getting pushed by the apex court, the government has finally moved on fixing a policy for controlling runaway prices of essential medicines. But the recommendations of the Group of Ministers (GoM) are being called a Trojan horse by public health experts.

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New Delhi: 29th September 2012

Nearly 95% people with epilepsy in India don't receive any treatment. Anti-epileptic drugs aren't available to almost 50% patients in the public sector with less than 40% actually receiving generic medicines instead of the expensive branded ones.

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Rohtak: 28th September 2012

The 21-year-old hearing and speech impaired woman, who was a victim of sexual abuse at the notorious Apna Ghar shelter home in Rohtak, gave birth to a child at PGIMS hospital in Rohtak on September 16. The news was kept under wraps by the officers investigating the case and the shelter home owners at Bhiwani to keep the victim away from the media.

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New Delhi: 28th September 2012

The Group of Ministers (GoM), headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, on Thursday, gave its approval to the final pharma pricing policy, bringing 348 essential drugs under the government’s price control regime. 

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Bhubaneswar: 28th September, 2012

Alarmed by falling sex ratio, the Odisha government has decided to use pregnant women in sting operations for nailing clinics and nursing homes conducting sex determination tests and even selective sex elimination. Prenatal sex determination is banned in India.

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28th September 2012

Dr. V.M. Katoch, Secretary, Department of Health Research (DHR) and Dr. M.K. Bhan, Secretary, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India have signed an MoU paving the way for collaborative biomedical research and development of affordable technologies for health purposes. 

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New Delhi: 27th September 2012

Unspent funds declared by several State governments across the country released under the Central Government’s Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Schemes has now prompted the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development to consider sanctioning funds directly to non-government organisations working in the States.

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New Delhi: 26th September 2012

Hospital/health centre not more 30 minutes away with 30 vital services — from diagnostics to dialysis — and a hospital bed for every 2,000 Indians is what the government aims to provide over the next five years.

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26th September 2012

With an ally walking out charging it with being anti-poor and with the Food Security Bill hanging fire, there are hardly any surprises in the UPA’s efforts to package free drugs and universal health coverage as tickets to its return to “aam aadmi” policies.

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New Delhi: 24th September 2012

Taking up the cause of persons with mental illness, their families and care-givers, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has asked State governments to explore the possibility of identifying employment opportunities under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme that are particularly suitable for such people.

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