Union Health Minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss on Monday slammed Bollywood and PepsiCo -- the former for celebrating smoking in its movies and the latter for promoting junk food and drink in India.Ramadoss didn't spare the media, saying, "The media in India is sensationalised and Kareena Kapoor wearing brown shoes is breaking news in India."Ramadoss said another burgeoning problem in India was junk food.
Unfazed by IT industry body Nasscom's attack for his comments on the health of BPO workers, Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss on Friday said his ministry is planning to come out with guidelines for people working in the BPO and IT industry.
The Health Minister had recently written to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry seeking action against companies like Bagpiper soda, Johnny Walker soda and Kingfisher mineral water, saying they were using surrogate methods of advertising, which needed to be stopped.
In yet another move in his battle with the health minister, AIIMS Director P Venugopal on Saturday shot off a letter to Registrar V P Gupta asking him to "report to a rural health centre".
Asked whether dengue situation had been brought under control, he said that the government has been quite active and a meeting of the Health Ministers of states affected by the disease had been convened by the Centre.
A first look on the heatlh minister Dr A Ramadoss examaning a patient.
Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Anbumani Ramadoss has sent a communication to Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh to take appropriate measures to check this increasing trend in all nniversities and educational institutions.
China and India, the world's two most populous nations, have initiated discussions on stabilising the global population, Beijing's top official on family planning said in Beijing on Tuesday.
The government is currently working on formulating the guidelines for supervising conducting clinical trials in the country and soon it would come up with the details in this regard, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said. Phase I clinical trials are the first stage of test of safety and efficacy of new drugs on humans after passing trials on animals.
Concerned over reports of pesticides in soft drinks, the government on Thursday said it was working on comprehensive standard formula for testing pesticide contents in such beverages.
The campaign was started in the wake of government's decision to withhold the salaries of doctors who participated in the anti-reservation strike last month.
A bench of Justices Tarun Chatterjee and H S Bedi upheld the appeal filed by Venugopal challenging the impugned law as being discriminatory and malafidely brought to superannuate him. Venugopal had contended that the amendment was brought with the sole purpose of removing him from his office due to his differences with Ramadoss.
The forum, which constitutes 40 OBC lawmakers, including Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, Dausa MP Sachin Pilot and JD-U leader Sharad Yadav, termed the creamy layer criterion put forward by the Supreme Court as a 'conspiracy'.
T D Dogra, who heads Forensic Medicines and Toxicology Department and is next to Venugopal in seniority, was appointed AIIMS' acting chief.
The IMA says this move will 'dilute' the standards of medical education.
A delegation led by Egyptian Minister of Health and Population Dr Hatem El Gabali met Union Minister of Health Anbumani Ramadoss on Wednesday and discussed about the reforms in health care and pharmaceutical sector in both the countries. Both sides will work in the field of combating infection, reform in health sector, transfer of vaccine technology and Information Technology area.
Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has lost the battle to make depiction of skull and cross-bones on all tobacco products mandatory with Cabinet on Friday declaring it would be optional.
Private hospitals, nursing homes and diagnostic centres will soon require mandatory registration with the government.
Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss on Saturday said the Centre would enact legislation to eradicate discrimination against HIV/AIDS-affected people in the country.
'Tobacco Kills/Smoking Kills' -- such health warnings would be mandatory on all tobacco products soon failing which the sellers would attract stringent penalty including imprisonment.\n\n
The 27 per cent quota for the Other Backward Classes will be implemented in Central government-run medical institutes over a period of two years, with 18 per cent seats reserved for students from backward castes, in this academic session. The institutes include the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, PGI, Chandigarh, JIPMER, Puducherry, Ram Manohar Lohia and Lady Hardinge Medical Colleges in Delhi.
Baba Ramdev drug sample had human parts: Govt\n
The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Centre on a petition by sacked All India Institute of Medical Science chief P Venugopal, challenging the controversial law fixing 65 years as the superannuation age for the post of the institute's director.
Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, who inaugurated the new Rs 24.70 crore unit with an added capacity of 283 million pieces to the plant's exisisting capacity, said the public sector unit with production facilities here and Belgaum with an annual production capciaty of 1.32 billion condoms already possessed ten per cent of the global share.
Trauma care services in India will soon get a facelift with the government proposing to set up special facilities along the country's highways.
Several Mumbai residents were affected with the disease after the rains in July.
The pills have been available on medical prescription since 2001. Over 100 countries already have EC pills available as over-the-counter drugs.
The direction came from Justice S Ravinder Bhatt who also apparently disapproved of the running battle between the minister and the eminent cardiac surgeon telling them, "You are using the court as a tool, which I won't allow."
The government on Friday announced that all places of work in the country will be declared smoke free and those found flouting the law will be strictly punished.
A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan sought the reply as both AIIMS and Venugopal filed their appeals against the High Court order.
Singh received the letter on Saturday from AIIMS Administration Officer R K Dabral stating that 'the re-examination will not be counted as an attempt nor it will be quoted as precedence in future.'
Kerala has not yet recieved any details of the package announced by Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss for prevention of diseases like chikungunya, Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan said on Tuesday.
Under the deal, the PMK will be supporting the AIADMK in the bypolls expected to 21 assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu, he said.
The health minister rubbished reports that a person has died due to bird flu.
Three containers with about 65 tonnes of wastes were found by Kerala Pollution Control Board officials to contain prohibited municipal wastes from New York including plastic and biodegradable substances as well as hospital wastes, sanitary pads and surgical gloves. A shocked Board has recommended to the Customs authorities that the shipments be sent back to the place of origin.
One of the hot discussion at the meeting will be the alleged irregular appointment and subsequent promotion of 164 faculty members.
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