Health & Life Sciences GS2 · GS3
- Balaghat child deaths: Centre’s outbreak team finds no district lab, vacant epidemiologist post, absent ASHA
9 October 2026 Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh. An investigation by the Centre’s National Joint Outbreak Response Team (NJORT) into the deaths of about 32 tribal children…
- Centre to cap trade margins at 30% on non-scheduled cancer drugs after NPPA finds 170% mark-ups
9 October 2026 New Delhi. The Union government will cap trade margins at 30% of the maximum retail price (MRP) on non-scheduled anti-cancer drugs, The Hindu and The…
- India Urged to Lead Global South as Pandemic Agreement Awaits Its Pathogen-Sharing Annex
8 October 2026 New Delhi, October 8. Writing in The Hindu, Priyadarshini Singh of the Centre for Social and Economic Progress notes that India spoke on the…
- Leprosy Transmission Halted in Only 148 Districts Against 300 Projected, Programme Report Shows
7 October 2026 New Delhi, October 7. Citing the 2025-26 National Leprosy Elimination Programme report, a Hindu editorial says only 148 districts have achieved…
- Centre weighs central licensing of all sterile drugs after courts limit CDSCO inspectors’ powers
6 October 2026 New Delhi. The Centre is considering a legal opinion before bringing all sterile drug products under the Central Licence Approving Authority (CLAA)…
- Lung cancer is India’s biggest cancer killer, yet national screening covers only breast, oral and cervical
5 October 2026 New Delhi. Lung cancer was India’s leading cancer killer in 2024: 98,687 deaths, 10.9% of cancer deaths, up from 75,031 in 2022, per Global Cancer…
- Rabies: Health Ministry surveillance logged 54 deaths in 2024 against an ICMR-NIE estimate of 5,726 a year
5 October 2026 New Delhi. The Health Ministry’s Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme-Integrated Health Information Platform (IDSP-IHIP) reported 21 rabies…
- CSIR-CCMB builds India-specific severity score for sickle cell anaemia from Indian children’s data
3 October 2026 Hyderabad. Scientists at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) have developed an India-specific score to predict how severely…
- Karnataka finds hospitals billing near MRP on drugs bought up to 52 times cheaper
2 October 2026 Bengaluru. Karnataka has asked the Centre to curb steep mark-ups on cancer drugs, medical devices and hospital consumables, The Economic Times…
- NFHS-6: Men Still Carry Almost No Contraceptive Burden as WHO Sets Male-Method Benchmarks
29 September 2026 New Delhi. The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued new guidelines on expanding contraceptive options and, for the first time, benchmarks for a…
- Kerala High Court: Centre May Invoke Patents Act Section 100 for Unaffordable Cancer Drugs
29 September 2026 Kochi and New Delhi. The Kerala High Court held on Monday, September 28, that the government can intervene when patented medicines are prohibitively…
- Supreme Court Rejects FSSAI’s Front-of-Pack Warning Timeline; Madras High Court Keeps the Micro/Nano-Plastics Warning
29 September 2026 New Delhi and Chennai. The Supreme Court on Monday, September 28, questioned the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) over its…
- CDSCO Told to Close Gaps That Let Narcotic Medicines Leak Into Drug Markets, as Hospitals Face National Quality Grading
28 September 2026 New Delhi. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), the national drug regulator, is reviewing its framework to stop the illegal…
- India to Pilot a BRICS Network of Mental-Health Centres of Excellence, With NIMHANS as Coordinating Centre
26 September 2026 New Delhi. A newly established BRICS Network of Centres of Excellence (CoEs) in mental health will be piloted by India, with the National Institute…
- FSSAI Drafts Rule Barring Non-Dairy ‘Analogue’ Products From Being Sold Under the Name Paneer
25 September 2026 New Delhi. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), the country’s apex food regulator, has proposed a draft amendment to the Food…
- J&K and Ladakh High Court Lets 11-Year-Old Sexual-Assault Survivor End Pregnancy Beyond 24-Week Limit
24 September 2026 Jammu. The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Tuesday, September 22, allowed an 11-year-old girl to terminate her pregnancy. It held that…
- NHRC Recommends a National Drug Registration Certificate and QR Track-and-Trace to Fight Spurious Medicines
24 September 2026 New Delhi. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has recommended a centralised registration system for medicines sold in India, a portal to…
- FSSAI Tells Supreme Court It Will Bring Red-Hexagon Sugar, Salt and Fat Warnings in One Phase
24 September 2026 New Delhi. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) told the Supreme Court on Wednesday, September 23, that it will bring in…
- Delhi Seizes 481 Counterfeit Abhayrab Rabies Vaccine Units, Traces Supply to Kanpur Agency
23 September 2026 New Delhi. The Delhi Drugs Control (DDC) Department has seized counterfeit rabies vaccine worth ₹2 lakh from a firm in Central Delhi’s Bhagirath…
- CDSCO Circular Warns Against Self-Medication With Antibiotics and Painkillers, Citing Risk of Kidney Damage
23 September 2026 New Delhi. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), India’s national drug regulator, has cautioned against the indiscriminate or…
- Supreme Court Calls Tenfold Markup on Cancer Drug ‘Broad Daylight Dacoity’, Faults Silent Regulators
23 September 2026 New Delhi. The Supreme Court on Tuesday, September 22, expressed shock at the overpricing of essential cancer medicines, terming it a “broad daylight…
- Health Ministry Drafts Mandatory CCTV at Chemists to Stop Prescription-Drug Sales to Children
22 September 2026 New Delhi. The Union Health Ministry has proposed mandatory CCTV surveillance at medical stores to curb the abuse of prescription drugs, The Indian…
- Centre Moves to Let Regulators Halt Sale and Order Destruction of Unsafe Medical Devices
22 September 2026 New Delhi. The government is considering amending the Medical Devices Rules, 2017 to make it easier for regulators to stop the manufacture and sale…
- Indian Study Finds 90% of Candida auris Isolates Resist Azoles, Exposing Gaps in Dosing Tests
22 September 2026 Hyderabad / Bengaluru. A study published in Nature Communications by Kaustuv Sanyal and his research associate Aswathy Narayanan of the Jawaharlal…
- LASI Data Put Dementia at 8.8 Million Older Indians as Geriatricians Push Early, Home-Based Care
21 September 2026 NEW DELHI. India is looking at an “old age pandemic” of cognitive decline, geriatrician Dr Prasun Chatterjee told The Indian Express in a health…
- Device Makers Seek Trade-Margin Caps as MRPs Run 10-30 Times Above Cost on Pacemakers and Valves
21 September 2026 NEW DELHI. India urgently needs a distinct regulatory framework for pricing medical devices, separate from drugs, Rajiv Nath, forum coordinator of…
- Tamil Nadu Plans First Statewide Urine Survey and Salt Cut in Government Kitchens to Curb Hypertension
21 September 2026 CHENNAI. Tamil Nadu Health Minister K.G. Arunraj has announced in the Assembly plans for a multi-pronged mission to reduce salt intake in the State,…
- Two Caesarean Deaths in Bundi Take Rajasthan to Nineteen Maternal Deaths in Three Months
19 September 2026 Two women who underwent caesarean sections at the District Women's Hospital in Bundi, Rajasthan, died at separate private hospitals in Kota earlier…
- Dr Reddy's to Sell Takeda's Qdenga in India While the Drug Regulator Centralises and Liberalises at the Same Time
19 September 2026 Dr Reddy's Laboratories and Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Company announced on Friday a distribution pact under which Dr Reddy's will distribute the…
- Counterfeit Cancer and Antibiotic Injections Traced From a Bengaluru Farmhouse to Wholesaler Krupa Healthcare
19 September 2026 In mid-August an agricultural labourer in C.K. Tandya village in South Bengaluru district, formerly Ramanagara, along the Bengaluru-Mysuru…
- Centre Restricts Stem Cell Therapy for Autism to Approved Clinical Trials
18 September 2026 The Union Health Ministry has asked States and Union Territories to ensure that stem cell therapy is offered as standard clinical care only for…