Ban on smoking in public from October 2

The government on Tuesday announced that smoking would be banned in all public places from October two. The ban would include hotels, restaurants and offices, Union Health Minister Anbumani......

Ramadoss' smoking ban is year's highlight

A dogged Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss overcame stiff resistance from the tobacco lobby to press ahead with a ban on smoking and stepped up his campaign during the year against junk food. The......

India's silent killer: Time to wake up

It has always been perceived that cancer is generally restricted to the more affluent class in comparison with the poorer people. This is a myth and a recent report in Lancet has busted it. Sriram......

Northeast tops cancer charts

Certain pockets of the northeastern region have the highest cancer incidences rate compared to that of the rest of the country, a study done by the National Cancer Registry Programme has shown.......

Smoking? Nations lose over $30 billion a year

Love for nicotine is weighing heavily on developing nations with top ten smoker countries losing more than $30 billion annually which is more than 6.5 per cent of their gross national income. 1.......

Farming: Maharashtra shows the way in pest control

NCIPM's awareness-cum-surveillance project helped reduce the pest-infected area in Maharashtra by 67 per cent, writes Surinder Sud. Maharashtra, especially the Vidarbha region, is infamous for......

Free medicine plan remained on paper only

Many health policy initiatives of the government could not be rolled out for various reasons in 2012 during which the country faced fresh challenges on disease prevention as dengue and Japanese......

Confused about the Budget proposals? Please read this

Extends fiscal deficit reduction roadmap by one year to 2017-18 Raises services tax, to implement GST by April 2016 and cut corporation tax from 2016-17 to 25% by 2020 The Government has presented......