'Defaulting Ganga dams in Uttarakhand to be shut for a month'

A state govt undertaking and 2 private dams don't want to follow water discharge norms

स्वच्छ गंगा: बांध प्रबंधक नहीं माने तो एक माह के लिए बंद कर देंगे परियोजनाएं: मिश्रा

एक सरकारी व दो प्राइवेट बांध संचालकों ने गंगा में मिनिम�…

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Plastic waste illegally imported into India, claims expose

Carried out by 2 non-profits, the expose has claimed that other countries across Asia too bearing the brunt

Private hospitals charging more a positive development for Ayushman Bharat CEO

Longer stay, utilisation of unnecessary services for neonatal care in private hospitals

Corruption raises cost of healthcare by 25%: Samiran Nundy

Leading gastroenterologist Samiran Nundyco-editor of Healers or Predators?: Healthcare Corruption in India, spoke to Down To Earth about the …

AFM cases not polio-like, says CDC

The cause of the neurological illness has not been identified but investigation is on

World not on track to achieve TB targets for 2020: WHO

Between 2015 and 2018, only 6.3 per cent TB cases showed a cumulative decline, against the 20 per cent target by END TB strategy: Global …

Bargarh: How Odisha's rice bowl turned cancer field

Cancer stalks Odisha’s agriculture-intensive Bargarh district raising questions over its link with pesticide overuse

Down To Earth impact: ICMR to send team to study cancer in Odisha's Bargarh

Indian Council of Medical Reasearch team to study cancer in Odisha's rice bowl after Down To Earth reportage

Cataract top cause of blindness in India, finds survey

The condition is responsible for 66.2 per cent of blindness cases in people above 50, according to the National Blindness and Visual Impairment Survey

Inspection of medical colleges to become history soon

No final decision on NEXT, fee yet; NMC to take final call

No ban on single-use plastics, to be phased out by 2022

Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterates a commitment that India made last year

A year of Ayushman Bharat: 46.5 lakh treated, action against 341 hospitals for frauds

Health Minister Harsh Vardhan refuses to budge on IMA demand, says medical body ill-informed

भारत में बढ़ रही है एचआईवी संक्रमित टीबी रोगियों की संख्या, डायबिटीज भी जिम्मेवार

 भारत सरकार द्वारा जारी की गई टीबी रिपोर्ट 2019 में कहा गय…

HIV-associated tuberculosis on the rise: India TB Report

Pediatric and drug-resistant TB major concerns for India

Popular drug ranitidine recalled after carcinogenic qualities confirmed

The drug has been found to have levels of a carcinogen above what the US FDA prescribes

इस दवा में कैंसर पैदा करने वाले तत्व का संदेह, सरकार ने दिया जांच का आदेश

अमेरिका, यूरोप और सिंगापुर के बाद भारत में भी कैंसरकारी �…

Our detergents have a hazardous chemical in them: Study

It calls for an immediate stop on the use of the chemical, nonylphenol

2 of 3 child deaths in India due to malnutrition: Report

Children under 5 in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Assam and Rajasthan worst-hit, finds study of 2017 data by ICMR, PHFI and NIN

भारत में तीन में से दो बच्चों की मौत का कारण कुपोषण : सर्वे

राष्ट्रीय पोषाहार मिशन 2022 के लिए लक्ष्य तय किया गया है, ल�…

There’s no antidote to paraquat herbicide, ban it: Odisha docs to govt

They went on a hunger strike since the “lethal” herbicide killed 171 people in two years

AES in Bihar: Lack of awareness plays in loop

The brain fever first struck the state in 1995 and has continued taking lives of hordes of children and claimed lives of more than 170 …

India fourth in number of global malaria cases: Lancet report

All other nine high malaria prevalance countries are African

Fetching water from miles away increases risk of death: UK study

'Children of women who fetch water in this manner are especially disadvantaged'