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Dr Pragya Kumari is a postgraduate resident in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC), Delhi. Representing the new generation of doctors, the 27-year-old is training in one of the country's busiest government teach
Even as many of us reach for an antibiotic pill at the first sign of a fever, penicillin creator Alexander Fleming had warned decades ago that the misuse of these life-saving drugs could one day render them ineffective. On a stage in New Delhi, actor Alan Vica
Bengaluru, The Karnataka government has prohibited the production, storage, distribution and sale of 'analogue paneer' being sold as 'paneer' across the state for a year to safeguard public health, officials said on Saturday. "The Food Safety Division of the D
Chandigarh, The Haryana Public Health Engineering Department has sought detailed reports on locations where waterlogging during the monsoon took relatively longer to drain, with the government seeking to ascertain the reasons for the delays, an official statem
The Bombay High Court on Thursday restrained the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) from taking any further steps to alter the reservation of the Neville D Souza football ground at Bandra Reclamation from a playground to an exhibition centre. Miffed with
Calling it a calculated assault on public health , the Karnataka High Court has refused to set aside a cheating case against a company accused of re-labelling expired food products and reselling them as fresh. It held that it was not merely a food-safety viola
In the past, India's response to mosquito-borne diseases often came after an outbreak had arrived. For millions of Indians the risk never arrived on a schedule
The Maharashtra Public Health Department and Ruby Hall Clinic (RHC), Pune, have discussed a plan to expand access to specialised treatment, including cardiac and cancer care, for poor and needy patients under government health schemes. The meeting, chaired by
President Donald Trump's vaccine plan faces significant financial and logistical hurdles. Drugmakers must develop new manufacturing processes and conduct extensive clinical studies
LUCKNOW A severe fly menace in Hardoi s Atrauli area has sparked weeks of protests and two FIRs against villagers, with residents of around 15 villages alleging that waste from a poultry farm has made their lives miserable and created a potential public health
Maharashtra FDA has launched a statewide crackdown on Ayurvedic drug manufacturers. Inspections revealed serious violations of manufacturing and quality control standards at many establishments
Maharashtra has registered 627 court cases under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act from March 2024 to March 2026, of which 127 have resulted in convictions, while significantly stepping up decoy operations against illegal pren
Mumbai FDA suspended three restaurant licenses due to serious food safety violations. Inspections revealed significant hygiene issues despite prior warnings and opportunities
Observing that a medical practitioner practicing a particular medicine system without having its degree is a quack, the Allahabad High Court dismissed a man s petition to allow him to practise allopathy on the basis of a vocational certificate and run his clin
Moving to curb the practice of devotees throwing clothes, slippers and other ritual items into the Tamirabarani river after performing last rites and ancestral rituals, the Madras High Court has held that "no one has the right to pollute a water body even in t
A patient, wheeled in at a sub-divisional hospital in Haryana, died during treatment. Doctors suspected a cardiac emergency but, there being no electrocardiogram (ECG) machine at the hospital, they could neither confirm the diagnosis nor decide on an immediate
Summer and mangoes are synonymous in India. And with the onset of monsoon, ripe mangoes are readily available in the market
Gujarat is expected to have the first batch of its region specific anti-snake venom in around a year, a development that is expected to significantly strengthen snakebite treatment in the state and contribute to India s goal of reducing snakebite deaths by 50
Amid the ongoing record-breaking heatwave in Europe, the number of deaths recorded in France has increased by 30 per cent. The week also marked the hottest since the heatwave began last month
Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) raised contentious concerns during a June 2026 Senate hearing, questioning whether COVID-19 vaccine injury reports were properly reviewed and fully disclosed. The hearing, titled 'Plausible Mechanisms of COVID-19 Injections Causing C
Nearly two-thirds of infants below six months of age in Uttar Pradesh are not exclusively breastfed, according to data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-6. The findings place Uttar...
Many governments across the globe are stepping up screening processes and restrictions on travel to mitigate the spread of the Ebola outbreak that was declared a health emergency in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on May 17, reported Reuters. India has...