COVID-19 will now be an endemic pandemic

Eventually, an endemic COVID-19 will add to the world’s burden of diseases

Half of world’s cities had PM2.5 levels above least-stringent WHO standards last decade: Report

India and Indonesia recorded the most severe increase in PM2.5 pollution while China saw the greatest improvements

World Book Day: Five books to reshuffle your reading list

This World Book Day, we bring you a list of nonfiction tales that may nudge you into stepping out of your comfort zone, and still keep you hooked

Rare disease day: Podcast launched in India

More than 70 million people across India are said to be suffering from some rare disease, but most cases go unreported or misdiagnosed

Why India must keep investing in health innovations

Only by committing ourselves to funding health innovation in the long term will India be able to realise today’s most urgently-needed solutions

Scientists work towards inducing human hibernation to treat diseases

With this, suspended animation may become ubiquitous in modern medicine sometime in the near future

No policy for rare diseases, govt declares ‘one-time financial assistance’

The Union health minister announced a ‘one-time financial assistance’ in Parliament on Friday, but did not specify any amount

The solution for Africa’s health problem is in basing health outside of disease

Health does not begin with disease but is dependent on the way of living, clean environment and good nutrition knowledge

How air pollution is adding to India’s diabetes burden

PM2.5 can enter the bloodstream and cause liver damage, thus enhancing diabetes risk

India leads the world in TB burden

Most of the world’s under-reported TB cases as well as multi-drug resistant cases are in India, as per the latest report on TB by the WHO

Southeast Asia has a huge hepatitis burden—more than HIV and malaria combined

The region needs to enhance awareness and action to eliminate hepatitis, writes WHO regional director for southeast Asia s 

Gains in tuberculosis control threatened by drug resistance

Drug resistant TB is now a transmitted diseases and requires commitment, especially in high-burden countries like India 

South Africa's remarkable journey out of the dark decade of AIDS denialism

Activists, health-care workers and scientists in South Africa were faced with a horrific epidemic but went on a ruthless crusade to turn it around

India at high risk to a little-known disease, says an Oxford study

Melioidosis is caused by a highly pathogenic bacterium and currently has no vaccine

If cigarettes can be expensive, why not bidis?

Taxes on tobacco products in India are way below the internationally-accepted standards