"We will be carrying out verbal autopsy into each deaths. We will carry out a scientific study, before confirming the deaths," he said.
Last year, the minister had proposed the compulsory rural postings for all MBBS students. The announcement met with stiff resistance.
The health minister rubbished reports that a person has died due to bird flu.
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".
India has 5.13 million estimated cases of HIV.
Ramadoss said a digital library of traditional knowledge of various plants and medicines in the Indian system was being prepared for classification and patenting.
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.
Ramadoss said the Delhi government is doing well in containing the situation and his ministry is providing medication and chemicals to all affected states.
To be called Central Drug Administration or National Drug Authority, it will have 10 sub-authorities to deal with areas like cosmetics, blood safety, medical equipment, etc.
It would be a violation of fundamental rights, Ramadoss said.
India's biggest bio-tech show, Bangalore Bio-2005, opened on Friday as the government promised more investment in biotechnology
A Chennai-based biotechnology firm on Monday said it is working on developing a chemical for application on mosquito nets, which would keep the pest away for a period of at least three years.
The list of the 314 MPs, however, does not include Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, who is also a BJP MP, they said. The majority mark is 268.
When asked to comment on his party's stand on premarital sex and the impact it may have on issues such as AIDS, he said, "There is nothing wrong in talking about safe sex, but it is wrong to say that pre-marital sex is alright."
The Union health ministry has decided to ask the Maharashtra government for comments on the reported presence of harmful chemicals in baby products produced by Johnson & Johnson, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said in New Delhi on Thursday.
There is no case of bird flu in the country but government has decided to stockpile ten lakh doses of the drug, Tamiflu, which helps in treating the infection.
The deaths brought back the focus on NEET in the state, with all political parties but for the BJP opposed to the qualifying exam.
In view of the enormous potential of health tourism in creating jobs and raking in foreign exchange, ministries of health and tourism on Wednesday decided to get started by setting up a Web site and a database.
Ramadoss said at present 500,000 to one million vaccines are being imported from countries like Japan, Thailand and Korea.
The minister alleged that 76 % of all movies made in a year depict smoking scenes.
The Union health minister has announced that the government is considering a ban on scenes showing smoking on screen.
The known cases of AIDS are only 91,080 as the practice before 1998 was to report only confirmed cases.
Health minister Anbumani Ramadoss said some 2 to 2.5 million cancer cases were reported every year.
Stalin has started campaigning in the name of father Karunanidhi as the party's CM's candidate, but does not seem to have given up hope.
Karunanidhi was convinced that using the 2G cases against the DMK and reopening the fodder case against Lalu Prasad Yadav were products of the Congress leadership's short-sightedness. A revealing excerpt from A S Panneerselvan's Karunanidhi: A Life.
The sub-quota scheme may now lead to a ganging up of non-Vanniyars in individual constituencies against the Vanniyars just as in the past, such ganging up against SC-ST candidates was seen in the non-quota constituencies, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
By aligning with the BJP, even if they were arm-twisted into doing so, the AIADMK leadership has yielded their political space in the state to the aunt-nephew duo of Sasikala-Dinakaran, and the parliamentary election to the DMK-Congress combine, says A Ganesh Nadar.
However, the tilting factor still remains: Can the rivalling 'Modi brand' of 'soft Hindutva' and 'hard-sell nationalism' garner more votes for the NDA in Tamil Nadu, asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
The AIADMK bagged 134 seats as counting of votes was taken up for 232 of the 234 assembly constituencies. Polling in two constituencies has been postponed to May 23.
The Madras High Court Bench in Madurai on Thursday dismissed a couple of public interest litigation petitions filed against the supply of Tamirabarani surface water to industries set up by co-packers of Pepsi and Coca Cola at the Industrial Growth Centre established by SIPCOT at Gangaikondan in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu.
If the AIADMK falls short of the 117-mark required to form a government in the 234-member assembly, will it strike a post-poll deal to form Tamil Nadu's first coalition government? N Sathiyamorthy analyses.
The announcement was made by AIADMK coordinator and deputy chief minister O Panneerselvam and Union Minister and senior BJP leader Piyush Goyal, party election in-charge for Tamil Nadu, who described it as a "mega alliance".
The incident that came to light on Saturday came days after a farmer was beaten up by the police in the state over non-payment of loan.
Two more infants, shifted from Dharmapuri Government Hospital to Salem, died on Wednesday pushing the toll of toddlers to 13, as the opposition parties called for a probe in the incident.
The DMK has Stalin and Stalin alone as the key campaigner. The rest of them all, including half-sister Kanimozhi, are tied down to their own constituencies while those like party treasurer and former minister S Duraimurugan, to those of their children's constituencies.
