Denied dignity in both life and death, a tribal man from Bengal is now receiving the blame for his own death
75 years of independent India: Time for freedom from period shame
What is this new Langya virus? Do we need to be worried?
Monkeypox: demand for vaccines is outstripping supply – this is what’s causing the shortages
Monkeypox can be transmitted to babies during and after pregnancy. We should be watchful but not alarmed
The virus can enter the body via broken skin, the respiratory tract or mucous membranes
Is the COVID-19 vaccine story over?
India claims vaccines are no longer an issue in the battle against COVID-19, but a host of developing nations ...
Hepatitis in children: Scientists have found a possible cause for the mystery outbreak
Childhood hepatitis is caused by an infection from one of the hepatitis viruses (such as hepatitis A or hepatitis ...
New Zealand’s ‘tobacco endgame’ law will be a world first for health – here’s what the modelling shows us
New policy settings to cut smoking prevalence to under 5% of adult population within years
Proactive regulators key to safe biopharmaceuticals
Healthcare policymakers should devise suitable policies to strengthen the regulatory infrastructure in order to keep substandard drugs from being ...
Silent, subtle and unseen: How seizures happen and why they’re hard to diagnose
About 200,000 US adults seek evaluation at hospital’s emergency department for a first lifetime seizure every year
How much loss have we seen in child education during the pandemic?
PGI-D, a central grading system rating the performance of districts, may help get a sense of the true scale
Reinfection will be part of the pandemic for months to come. Each repeat illness raises the risk of long COVID
We would and reduce the burden of long COVID if we increased vaccination coverage and universally adopted Japanese-style regular ...
COVID vaccines and pregnancy: a review of the evidence shows they are safe
Pregnant women’s immune response to the vaccine is similar to the response of women who are not pregnant, research ...
One Health: What it is & how it can be implemented in India
Nexus of science, social science, indigenous knowledge and policy necessary
When the US Constitution was ratified, women had more autonomy over aborting than during 19th century
The criminalisation of abortion, the decentralisation of the woman’s experience, and the medicalisation of her feelings that led to ...
Cooking with ‘dirty’ fuels affects women’s mental health
Providing women in Nairobi, Kenya with stoves fuelled with bottled gas reduced their stress levels, study finds
Celibacy: its surprising evolutionary advantages – new research
Institutions can also be shaped by people’s reproductive and economic decisions, a study on celibacy in Gansu, China, shows
Women are at greater risk of stroke, the more miscarriages or stillbirths they’ve had
Stillbirths linked to non-fatal ischaemic (blockage) stroke or fatal haemorrhagic (bleeding) stroke; miscarriages to both
Socially isolated people have differently wired brains and poorer cognition – new research
Health authorities should do more to check on who is isolated and arrange social activities to help them
Charity after profiteering, the Big Pharma way
Pfizer to sell its medicines at no profit in world’s poorest countries, and other big names to make cancer ...
Stockholm+50: Securitisation of pandemics
India’s invocation of National Disaster Management Act to deal with a pandemic was a first and an extreme case ...
Tobacco use during pregnancy: A threat to motherhood
Safe motherhood includes all measures to ensure women receive adequate care & stay healthy throug childbirth; the outcome being ...
COVID-19 no gamble: Physics-inspired simulations predict waves in these 4 countries
A physicist uses the Monte Carlo Simulation, commonly used in physics & fields as diverse as engineering and finance, ...
Mitanins: The women who kept Chhattisgarh safe during the COVID-19 pandemic
The administration, however, has not compensated other Mitanins’ work adequately and has thus been misusing their sense of social commitment
Phonological problems: Why the name of a COVID-19 vaccine matters
The issue of nomenclature and confusion due to sound-alike and name-alike vaccines doesn’t find any mention in Covid-19 vaccination ...