Australia pulls out Indian gutka ad

Kamla Pasand had boundary line advertisements in India-Australia matches

Cap on trans fats

No infrastructure for universal health coverage in India, says report

Infrastructure for primary healthcare has decreased in the past decade

India bans import of animal-tested beauty products

Becomes first South-Asian country to go ‘cruelty free’

In the wrong ministry?

Biotech Regulatory Authority will have too much power, no checks

Get your own vaccine

Superbug prompts antibiotics policy

Standard treatment guidelines will determine drug prescription

Superbug threat is for real

But Indian government does not think it is significant

IN SHORT

In short

National plan on non-communicable diseases

No labelling for GM food

New food safety regulation ignores it despite a four-year-old law

Assam’s rural health practitioners face uncertain future

High court derecognises their diploma; state yet to work out a plan to absorb them

After extensive lobbying, two-finger test finally removed from proforma for medical examination of rape victims

Uniform protocol and further research in forensic medicine required

Government's expert panel recommends 'first come, first served' policy for registering new drugs

Activists accuse panel of pitching for pharma industry and ignoring patients' interest

Ads term gutkha ban unfair

Analysts call the ads misleading; health ministry plans action against industry

Audit of India's water bodies confirms their polluted status

CAG assessment reveals governments' inaction in curbing water pollution

Rising trend

Poor and the young are new victims of hypertension

'South Asia, Africa show poor progress towards MDGs'

India fares worse than Bangladesh and Nepal, says report

Who controls

Gutkha sympathiser

Enforcement agencies had a busy year. They were tough at times, lenient at others

Time to nail pesticides

Centre forms expert committee to frame policy to check residues in fruits, vegetables

Matter of life and death

Free food body of corporate influence

Supreme Court asks food regulator to form new scientific panels

Ganguly panel confirms pesticide in soft drinks