Former Senior Correspondent, Down To Earth
‘National Medical Commission Bill will encourage corruption, centralise power’
The Indian Medical Association and experts list a bunch of problems the Bill may introduce in the health sector if passed by the Rajya Sabha
WHO slams tobacco industry for interference in cessation efforts
The UN public health agency warned its member countries to not fall for such firms’ campaigns that are to manipulate the perception of …
Oly Ilunga: Congo’s very own ‘Deep Throat’?
The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s health minister resigned on July 22, alleging that he was under strong pressure to introduce an anti-…
V(a)x populi: Should we or should we not vaccinate
Three experts come from three different points of view to the debate on compulsory vaccination
WHO declares Ebola outbreak in Congo a global health emergency
The declaration was made after case was registered in Goma city, which shares a border with Rwanda
South India under the grip of dengue again
Of the five states worst-hit by the mosquito-borne disease, four are in South India: Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Kerala
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 …
Economic Survey 2018-19: Healthcare still inaccessible in rural India
Most primary health centres have only one doctor; out-of-pocket expense still high
Circular economy's potential remains unrealised
The importance and necessity of a circular economy, which means cheaper products and services and reduced congestion and pollution, cannot be …
AES in Bihar: Poor anganwadi centres failed to deliver
The state also has the second-highest number of cases of malnourished children (43.9 per cent) in India
AES: Bihar Police lodges complaint against villagers protesting child deaths
Complaint has allegedly been lodged against 20 people from the worst affected Harivanshpur village
‘It’s absurd to blame litchi for AES, malnourishment the real cause’
Arun Shah, a Muzaffarpur-based paediatrician who has researched on the syndrome, says the fruit is only a triggering factor for malnourished children
लू से 36 लोगों की मौत, आंध्रप्रदेश में हो रही हैं सबसे अधिक मौतें
सबसे अधिक गर्म शहर चुरू में लू से कोई मौत नहीं हुई, क्यों…
Heatwave kills 36 people, most in Andhra Pradesh
Churu, which saw the temperatures soar beyond 50 degrees Celsius, has not registered even a single death
Ganga clean-up deadline revised again, but is it achievable?
Union minister Gajendra Shekhawat still has a number of challenges ahead if the target is to be achieved within next two years
Kerala treating suspected Nipah case as 'positive', awaits crucial report
The National Institute of Virology’s Alappuzha unit as well as a private lab in Bengaluru have stated that the 23-year-old man quarantined …
Ban RO systems if dissolved solids are less than 500 mg/l: NGT
The tribunal’s order came in response to a petition that said indiscriminate usage of ROs was leading to a huge wastage of water
कुंभ का गंगाजल जांच में निकला गंदाजल
संगम घाट से लिए गये नमूने में प्रति 100 मिलीलीटर में फीकल क…
India among seven countries that contribute most to measles’ risk in US
The CDC states that the measles outbreaks are linked to travelers who brought the disease back from other countries
New government must work to improve health infrastructure
India’s GDP for health is less than 1.5 per cent and is one of the lowest in the world
There's an unhealthy alliance between doctors and pharma firms
The government has shown little interest to penalise pharma companies that offer sops to doctors to push their drugs
'Innovators of medical diagnostic tools can approach us for finances'
Mohammad Aslam, managing director of Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council, tells Down To Earth how the government-aided non-profit …
World Malaria Day: ‘If we don’t become complacent, we can eliminate malaria like 1965’
PL Joshi, former head of National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme talks to Down To Earth about how malaria vaccination, surveillance and …
Child cancer drugs neither available nor accessible to the poor in Delhi
A study reveals that a lowest-paid government employee will have to spend 55 days’ wages to get a child treated for Hodgkin's lymphoma and …
Easy, affordable devices: Meet game changers of India's health sector
Medical diagnostics in India is set to witness a boom time as a wide array of easy-to-use and affordable devices are ready for roll-out