Monsoon of death

Every monsoon, Baba Raghav Das Medical College of Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, witnesses hundreds of children dying of viral encephalitis or Acute …

Banking on mothers

A bank in Udaipur collects mothers’ milk; experts to chalk out plan to include it in national policy

Deficient programme

Centre wants to treat anaemia with iron tablets. Can pills substitute nutritious food?

Can business be responsible

Inaction discourages positive change in industry

More to junk food than meets the eye

Goodwill shunting

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Empowering the Disabled

Organisations strive to show that the world of a spastic child is no different than the one we all live in

Shaken innocence

The widely reported case of Matthew Eapen's death has highlighted the ignorance regarding the "shaken baby syndrome"

No chapattis

For some young children, wheat is like poison

Duty free

Uttar Pradesh can't deliver vaccines to its children. But it wants to import vaccine

Size does matter

Children's toilets are a breed apart from the everyday adult toilet

Women SHGs run mid-day meal schemes in Orissa schools

Will milk fortification benefit the poor?

Fever still a mystery

Authorities yet to identify cause of deadly disease prevalent in Muzaffarpur for a decade

Left to quacks

Unauthorized medical practitioners find business where Bihar’s health machinery deserts polio victims

Dying in stages

Thirty million HIV-infected people in the world live in developing nations. With no cures in sight, all they can do is wait for death. And lack …

Heavy metal

Vaccines with mercury can cause autism, but removing the metal is uneconomical for developing countries such as India

Knowledge of medicines by indigenous communities receding

Is social sector revenue or capital expenditure?

The beauty & beast of malnutrition

Endgame begins

Experts say India needs to move beyond oral vaccine to battle vaccine-generated polio

Prickly issue

Will the inclusion of Hepatitis B vaccination in the Universal Immunisation Programme help?

Consumed by hunger

Fever stalks UP

Battling Japanese encephalitis virus, Gorakhpur now has a new enemy: enterovirus