The Centre will soon include Third Line therapy for persons living with HIV in the government’s Anti-Retroviral Treatment programme.
Preliminary work has begun in this regard and the process is expected to be completed in eight to 10 months, Lov Verma, Secretary, Department of AIDS Control, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, said on Saturday. Source: The Hindu Read more
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The Union Cabinet has sanctioned the setting up of 71 stand-alone cancer care institutes throughout India at a cost of Rs.6,650 crores in order to tackle the problem posed by the increasing incidence of cancer and the increasing deaths due to cancer in the country, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad has said.
Source: The Hindu Read more Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday admitted that the recent Supreme Court ruling on, and stringent regulations for, clinical trials had set drugs research back in India. But he was hopeful that the sector would gather pace again.
“We received a setback because not many pharmaceutical companies are coming forward for clinical trials now. There has been a 50 per cent drop in clinical trials after stringent regulations were put in place, but we are hopeful that they will pick up in the coming days,” he told The Hindu. Source: The Hindu Read more Punjab’s war on cancer will receive a fillip when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh lays the foundation stone for a super specialty treatment and research centre at Mullanpur town on the outskirts of Chandigarh on December 30.
The Rs. 450-crore state-of-the-art facility is being established by the Bhaba Atomic Research Centre on the lines of the Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. Source: The Hindu Read more The fourth round of National Family Health Survey (NFHS), to be launched early next month, will provide district level data on India’s demographic and health indicators covering all 640 districts. District level estimates from all States and Union Territories will be included in the Survey for the first time.
Consequently, the sample is expected to be 5,68,200 households, up from about 1,09,000 households in the previous round of NFHS in 2005-06 which provided only national and State level estimates. This is expected to yield a total sample of 625,014 women and 93,065 men. In these households information on 265,653 children below age 5 will be collected in the survey. Source: The Hindu Read more The department of obstetrics and gynaecology, Father Muller Medical College is organizing a continuing medical education programme on maternal medicine 2013' at the college here on December 8. The maternal mortality rate in India is still one of the highest in the world at 212/1 lakh live births. The millennium development goal stresses need to reduce this by 2015, Dr Prem D'Cunha, organising chairperson of the CME said.
Source: The Times of India Read more he Supreme Court has asked Parliament to bring in proper amendments to the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, or enact a suitable legislation so that women and children born out of live-in relationships are protected, though those types of relationship might not be a relationship in the nature of a marriage.
Making this suggestion, a Bench of Justices K.S. Radhakrishnan and Pinaki Chandra Ghose said: “Parliament has to ponder over these issues, and bring in proper legislation or make a proper amendment of the DV Act.” Source: The Hindu Read more With rising incidence of breast cancer in India, women must seek facts and not delay decisions11/19/2013 Sarla was 32 years of age when she felt a lump in her breast. Since it was painless she ignored it; annoyingly, it refused to go away. After a week she decided to visit a gynaecologist who suggested a mammogram. A few days later, she underwent a fine needle aspiration to establish whether she had a benign or malignant tumour.
The cancer was detected early because the radiologist insisted that an ultrasound be done as well. As Sarla had dense breast tissue, little could be discerned from the mammography film which was white and opaque. Source: The Times of India Public interest groups, which moved the Supreme Court over the unethical trial of HPV vaccine by PATH, have sought re-examination of the current ethical and legal framework to conduct drugs/vaccine trials in India to secure stronger protections for human subject participants.
The groups-- SAMA, a resource group for women and health, Locost, Drug Action Forum, Karnataka and Delhi Science Forum – also claimed that the existing laws proved to be inadequate to protect the subject participants. Source: http://www.pharmabiz.com Read more The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the government’s plan for the creation of a specialised cadre of health care workers for rural areas by instituting a three-year-course in State universities.
The Bachelor of Science (Community Health) course will create a cadre of Community Health Officers who will be posted at sub-centres, functioning under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, where they can provide basic health care. Source: The Hindu Read more |
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