Health

Tobacco should be sold only through licensed vendors: National Law School of India University

All retailers and wholesalers should have a license to sell tobacco products. These licenses should be displayed prominently at all premises engaged in sale of tobacco and products and must be renewed annually, recommends the recently released report – Framework for Implementation of Tobacco Vendor Licensing in India.

ESIC beneficiaries to get medical facilities closer to their residences

The Union Government is sending a three-member medical team to Eluru district of Andhra Pradesh, where over 300 children have taken ill due to some undiagnosed disease.

GENEVA:  UN human rights experts today expressed alarm at a growing trend to enact legislation enabling access to medically assisted dying based largely on having a disability or disabling conditions, including in old age.