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 …

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

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

‘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 …

Short on paramedics

Hospitals employ untrained staff due to acute shortage of qualified paramedics in the country

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

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

Activists demand access to affordable oral hepatitis drugs

Giving patents to foreign-made medicines will add to patients’ woes, they urge   

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  

Health ministry fumes over ads terming gutkha ban unfair

Calls them misleading and unjustified

Leprosy returns

Public health experts blame it on government complacency  

Spending on junk food

Officials push five-in-one vaccine

Pentavalent vaccine linked to child deaths in Sri Lanka, Bhutan; ball in high court

How to cure corruption in healthcare

Rx: Only an effective governing body, which includes medical and non-medical members, can stop the culture of kickbacks

Health Act faces hurdles

Centre drafts guidelines to regulate clinical establishments; Indian Medical Association resists

Centre confirms three pentavalent vaccine deaths

Union health ministry says 17 other deaths of infants reported in Haryana, Kerala and Tamil Nadu were not linked to five-in-one vaccine

`Many doctors are simply businessmen'

Samiran Nundy, chairperson of the department of surgical gastroenterology and organ transplantation at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and editor-in-chief …

Draft organ donation rules propose stiff penalty on illegal trade

Small health centres to get licence for organ retrieval

Illogical formula

Lopsided drug trial compensation plan marginalises the unemployed and homemakers

Deficient programme

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

As told to Parliament (February 12, 2021): CSE expose on honey adulteration taken note of by Centre

All that was discussed in the House through the day