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

Tough nut to crack

Nemesis of killer drugs

The investigator who took on a pharma giant in the US

Vaccine Eloquent

Universal vaccination became part of government policy in 1978. A quarter of a century since, progress has been fitful. In some parts of the …

Food than pills is the best source for iron

A village desperate for nutrition

Resurgent polio

Eradicating polio in India is proving to be a tough ask. The disease, which seemed to have been contained a few years ago, is rearing its head …

How rural kitchen pays

Local procurement for anganwadis can revive rural economy in a big way

Children under threat !

Rising cases of respiratory ailments in children, due to air pollution, fail to stir the Indian government

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