Days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described malnutrition as national shame, the Centre’s move to pump in massive resources into hunger-related schemes are pending the Planning Commission’s approval.

Major trouble is brewing at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) with more than 10 top doctors threatening to quit the premier institute after its governing body, headed by Union health

Should gutka be categorised as a “food product” and banned, or should it be regulated? Differences over the issue have surfaced within the health ministry, which, confused, is approaching the law ministry to get a final opinion.

Should gutka be categorised as a 'food product' and banned, or should it be regulated? Differences over the issue have surfaced within the health ministry, which, confused, is approaching the law mini

The department of biotechnology’s (DBT) offer to the Union health ministry to take over its vaccine production unit seems to have hit the wall with the health ministry expressing its inability to bear the “losses”.

After much dilly-dallying, the Centre has finally agreed to do away with Stavudine, having long-term irreversible side-effects, with a safer drug for HIV patients, even though the switchover will cost the government double the amount.

For a country with an alarming decline in its child sex ratio as per the 2011 Census — 914 females per 1,000 males — a new device called the “silent observer” could be the answer to checking the rampant practice of aborting the female foetus in India.

The government is putting in place safety standards for honey after it has been found that lots, even those sold by top brands, had traces of antibiotics and pesticides in them.

With the Centre already slugging it out in court over regulation of content on Web portals, the Union health ministry appears to have hit a roadblock in its bid to block sex-determination guidance ava

With the Centre already slugging it out in court over regulation of content on Web portals, the Union health ministry appears to have hit a roadblock in its bid to block sex-determination guidance available on numerous websites.