Come May 30, cigarette and tobacco makers have to flaunt the legislative pictorial warning on the packs of their products as the Centre promised to put into effect the rule making the provision obligatory in a month’s time.
Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium gave the word to a bench led by Justice B.N. Aggarwal after senior counsel Indira Jaisingh, appearing for NGO Health for Millions, alleged the Centre was dragging its feet on the subject.
Jaisingh charged the administration of crumpling under the force from the tobacco lobby.
Around 25,000 children in the United States are born to mothers with epilepsy each year. Recent study found that children of women with epilepsy who took the drug valproate (Depakote) during pregnancy had lower I Q at the age of three as compared to other children. 
A stroke is a brain attack, it happens when the blood supply is cut to the brain, it causes brain cells to die and results in brain damage. Recently group of researchers identified a chromosomal region that may contain two genetic variants which could increase risk of ischemic stroke. 
A group of patients with type 1 diabetes were able to live without insulin injection for months after getting treatment involving their stem cells. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks and destroys the insulin-producing cells within the pancreas. 
Recent study has shown that intake of methamphetamine during pregnancy can lead to brain abnormalities in children. Methamphetamine is a highly addictive stimulant that is injected, snorted, smoked or swallowed by the people. 
After a stern reprimand from the Supreme Court for the seeming indifference regarding warnings on cigarette packs, the Central government said that the statutory pictorial warning on cigarette and tobacco products will be displayed from May 30 onwards. 
