While the Centre has rightfully recognised medical devices as a separate category for policy making, its decision to allow 100 per cent foreign investment in the sector will threaten domestic players
At atom's mercy
Healthy treat in a cuppa
Operation cover-up
Deadly target
Health experts blame Centre's over-emphasis on women's sterilisation for the Chhattisgarh tragedy
Good scheme in bad health
A little known community monitoring scheme could prove handy for the new government, which is readying to revamp the ...
Access denied
Shortage of antiretroviral drugs and lack of diagnosis is not new in India, but government does not admit to ...
Missing evidence
Questions are being raised about the authenticity of forensic samples of Bhopal gas victims, crucial for establishing the ...
Delhi's walking medicine bank
Omkar Nath Sharma has made it his vocation to collect unused medicines and distribute them to the poor
Medical tests: How necessary?
Doctors are increasingly prescribing tests to arrive at a diagnosis. Has this benefited medical practice or patients? Four experts ...
Ebola unleashed
The deadly virus had long confined itself to the backwoods of Africa. Increasing deforestation has led to its frequent ...
Now healthy ads sell junk food
Commercials mislead consumers by shifting the focus from poor nutrition to physical exercise
Good ol' dug well
Traditional shallow wells can supply arsenic-free water. All one needs to do is install it with caution
Emergency call
Nearly 140,000 people in India died in road accidents in 2013, more than the death toll from many communicable ...
Hatching Superbugs
At a time when chicken consumption is at an all time high in India, a study by Delhi non-profit ...
How to cure corruption in healthcare
Rx: Only an effective governing body, which includes medical and non-medical members, can stop the culture ...
Environment Day: Green agenda for new government
Get the focus on environment and health, Mr Prime Minister
Delhi hospitals freed of poor
Delhi High Court exempts four private hospitals from treating the poor for free. Experts fear other hospitals will follow
Burden of birth
Maternal deaths in Bihar go unreported, while state claims maternal mortality ratio has decreased
Delivering safety
All safe motherhood programmes of the government are focused on institutional deliveries, but health centres are in disarray. Experts ...
Checks on drug trials
Court intervention prompts guidelines for drug trials. Pharmaceutical companies lobby to dilute them
Nicotine anywhere
Tobacco manufacturer ITC exploits legal loopholes to openly advertise and sell nicotine gums
Not so young at heart
Young hearts are more stressed out than they used to be. They bear much more pressure these days just ...
Monsoon of death
Every monsoon, Baba Raghav Das Medical College of Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, witnesses hundreds of children dying of viral encephalitis ...
Beauty and the beast
Cosmetics in India are tainted with toxic heavy metals, shows a study by Delhi-based non-profit Centre for Science and ...