Rags to pads
Self-help groups making low-cost sanitary napkins are ready to supply them to rural India
Trial and error
Recent notifications offer no security to clinical trial participants
No two-finger test for rape
Health ministry does away with the controversial test; medicos demand use of rape kit
Early breastfeeding practices in India: Backwardness cuts through social spectrum
Children born in Goa (75.4 per cent) had the highest rate of early breastfeeding in the country, followed by Sikkim (69.7 per cent) and Odisha (68.…
Shifting care
Proposed national health policy favours private sector, reluctant to increase public health expenditure
India can dramatically reduce stunting in children, says World Bank report
Just 1 per cent of children in the country receive adequate food, healthcare and environmental health that are required for normal growth
Operation cover-up
Rat poison theory offered by the Chhattisgarh government to explain the sterilisation deaths is a facade, finds an investigation by Jyotsna Singh.…
SC slams health ministry for unchecked clinical trials
Says trials of all new drugs must be supervised by health secretary
H1N1 caught India sleeping
Why social health activists in India live a life of uncertainty
More than 0.87 million ASHAs in India are facing salary issues, lack of incentives and exclusion from social safety schemes
Number of children vaccinated last year is unimpressive
Despite an intensified immunisation scheme, children in the country are not fully immunised
India in talks with Russia on ‘unverified’ COVID-19 vaccine
Indian serostudies do not talk about neutralising antibodies, says ICMR DG
UN's agricultural development agency chief reverses stand supporting India on WTO
IFAD president Nwanze says he was misquoted by media and only supported India's food security law
When birth control means business
Government’s scheme to give monetary remuneration to health workers for counselling couples on family planning may just backfire, says …
Govt neither denies nor accepts adverse event in Serum Institute COVID-19 vaccine trial
Health secretary claims all procedures followed but refuses to divulge details
Eight die of complicated form of dengue in Karnataka
Symptoms include low blood pressure, circulatory collapse and multiple organ failure
Kerala's Pathanamthitta district has highest number of diabetics
All men and women above 30 to be screened for diabetes in 100 districts by March 2021
Lungs, beware
Switching to ozone-friendly inhalers is not going to be easy
Has COVID-19 taken the wind out of the sails of India’s school feeding programme
Though the government issued guidelines to states to provide food to all eligible children in March 2020, implementation has been lax
Short on paramedics
Hospitals employ untrained staff due to acute shortage of qualified paramedics in the country
‘South-East Asia must remain polio-free after certification’
Poonam Khetrapal Singh became the first woman to assume the office of WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia on February 1, 2014. Her priority …
Pentavalent takes its toll
The vaccine is suspected to have killed at least 13 infants. Experts want data analysed
Health ministry invites bids for plastic-wrapped mosquito nets
Environmentalists oppose; say plastic not good for environment
Leprosy looms
Latest survey dismisses government’s claims of disease elimination
COVID-19 Vaccine Watch: Appeals made for support on proposal regarding intellectual property
If it is adopted on December 16, IP rights on production and supply of COVID-19 tools will be waived off