This time, when the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP) chooses the new set of pictorial warnings for tobacco products they will have to be extra careful.

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This time, when the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP) chooses the new set of pictorial warnings for tobacco products they will have to be extra careful.

An embarrassed health ministry has shifted the launch date of one of its flagship programmes, the country’s first nationwide round of pulse polio immunisation, having failed to procure adequate quantity of polio vaccine. The scheme, that is launched in January every year with much fanfare by the President, will now kickstart on February 19 instead.

As the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) roped in forensic experts at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) it is now confirmed that RTI activist Shehla Masood was murdered in Bhopal.

Over 500 doctors who were not eligible to be enrolled as medical practitioners in India as they had not obtained medical degree from a single country, will now be able to practise in India.

Days after a report in the British Medical journal the Lancet indicated malaria mortality almost double than previously estimated by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the international health organ

Doctors of Indian origin who are settled aboard may soon be allowed to undertake volutary health services in India.

The Medical Council of India is set to extend the duration of the MBBS course by a year. One year’s rural postings for doctors has also been made compulsory by the ministry.

In what could be a major setback to the on-going CBI probe into the Bhanwari Devi murder case, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) experts have found that most of the remains of bones sent to it to ascertain if they belonged to the slain auxiliary nurse actually belong to animals. Just two of the several bone remains sent to AIIMS for forensic examination belong to a human being.

Hallmark pottery dating back to 1900 BC has been recovered during the recent excavations in Ropar (now Rupnagar), Punjab. The Archaeolog-ical Survey of India, which recently started excavating the site after a gap of 56 years, has recovered fragments of “geometrical designs” belonging to the Harappan era.