High Premature Birth rate India: WHO report savita thakur thakur2 April 2017 9:33 AM ISTThe Minister of State (Health and Family Welfare), Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste has stated in a written reply in the Lok Sabha about the WHO report on...
India to tweak definition of blindness to meet WHO stipulation savita thakur thakur27 March 2017 1:35 PM ISTNew Delhi: The government is set to change a four-decade-old definition of blindness to bring it in line with the WHO criteria and ensure the Indian...
World Tuberculosis Day - prevention, management and treatment of TB Meghna A Singhania24 March 2017 3:49 PM ISTToday is World Tuberculosis Day- "Unite to End TB: Leave no one behind"-SLOGAN OF WHOWorld TB Day celebrated on March 24 each year to raise awareness...
Haryana notifies AYUSH policy savita thakur thakur23 March 2017 10:17 AM ISTChandigarh: The Haryana government notified the Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) Medicine Procurement Policy,...
Health Ministry sets up task force to combat glaucoma savita thakur thakur20 March 2017 5:07 PM ISTNew Delhi: A national task force has been set up by the Health Ministry to reduce the incidence of irreversible blindness caused due to...
Dr Soumya Swaminathan named to UN group on antimicrobial resistance Meghna A Singhania19 March 2017 9:26 AM ISTUnited Nations, Mar 19 (PTI)Â Indian Council of Medical Research director Soumya Swaminathan has been named to a high-level group set up by UN...
India joins 8 nations to improve quality of care around birth savita thakur thakur13 March 2017 10:02 AM ISTNew Delhi: India has joined eight other countries under a World Health Organisation initiative to improve the quality of maternal and newborn...
UK choice for World Health Organisation chief visits India savita thakur thakur8 March 2017 3:29 PM ISTAt the end of May health ministers of 194 nations will meet for their annual assembly. They will elect the person who will - on July 1st - replace Dr...
Many websites providing misleading vaccine safety info: WHO supriya kashyap kashyap5 March 2017 6:36 PM ISTNew Delhi : The WHO has warned about emergence of several websites providing "misleading" information about vaccines and asked people to rely only on...
Ebola nurse named Time magazine person of the year dies savita thakur thakur4 March 2017 1:32 PM ISTMonrovia: Salome Karwah survived Ebola after it killed both her parents and eight other relatives, then returned to her clinic to help countless...
WHO congratulates India on successful assessment of Indian National Regulatory Authority savita thakur thakur23 Feb 2017 10:58 AM IST“The successful outcome of the WHO conducted assessment of the National Regulatory Authority (NRA) of India is a big boost to the Government’s efforts...
Efforts to eliminate measles rubella by 2020: Health Ministry savita thakur thakur19 Feb 2017 10:41 AM ISTAccelerating efforts to eliminate measles and control rubella, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, convened a meeting of an Expert Advisory...
