India desperately needs timely and affordable transport for effective healthcare delivery
Vitamin D complex
Public’s private peeve
Arsenic control
Let’s talk sex
Awareness campaign changes attitude towards sexual health and family planning in Bihar
India’s Minamata
Singrauli, the powerhouse of India with massive coal reserves and many thermal power plants, should have been prosperous. But ...
Universal health scare
The country’s planners are debating how to provide healthcare to all. In a drastic shift from the 65-year-old ...
Renal emergency
Sri Lanka’s north-central region has been facing a health crisis for two decades. A large number of people in ...
Health Act faces hurdles
Centre drafts guidelines to regulate clinical establishments; Indian Medical Association resists
A tab on wishlist
As firms explore applications for Indian consumers, the country is set to drive budget tablet market
Sapped for sal seed
Despite abundant produce, seed collecting Baigas earn little
Forgotten healers
Traditional medicine system has time and again proved its worth. Then why the cold shoulder?
Impatient to sterilise
In a hurry to bring down fertility rate, health officials are blatantly flouting government’s guidelines
Keeping cancer alive
Punjab has been in the grip of cancer for over a decade but the government has ignored the threat. ...
The new obesity
A growing number of people are unable to shed those extra pounds despite strict diet regimes and long hours ...
With a pinch of salt
Fast food can be made less salty, finds research. But companies refuse to do so
Turmoil in academia
Tenure of Medical Council of India’s governing body set to expire; Centre unclear about next move
Eat at your own risk
Junk food is bad for health. Its definition tells its inner story—food that is high on calories and saturated ...
Endgame begins
Experts say India needs to move beyond oral vaccine to battle vaccine-generated polio
How rural kitchen pays
Local procurement for anganwadis can revive rural economy in a big way
Cradles of hope
A recent health survey throws up figures that defy logic. Some districts in India’s nine most backward states have ...
Hidden hunger?
There is a rush to cash in on micronutrient deficiency in India through fortification of food
TB turns invincible
Discovery of a deadly form of TB in a Mumbai hospital underscores mismanagement
Food authority backtracks
Says milk adulterated but not unsafe for consumption
Shudder islands
Harsh environment, government apathy are literally driving Sundarbans inhabitants mad