A vaccine for corrupt alliances
Let’s talk sex
Awareness campaign changes attitude towards sexual health and family planning in Bihar
Money matters
Sonal Matharu finds out how schemes for women and children are all about making money and neglect their health
More Indians covered by health insurance but overall percentage still low: NHFS-5
Andhra Pradesh recorded the highest coverage but a decrease since last survey
New ruse in Big Pharma's old game
Drug multinationals are lobbying for a devious patent linkage system to block the entry of competitive generics
Chikungunya kills three in Delhi
Municipal authority claims four deaths due to dengue, but the number may be higher
At home with nature
Terrace, windowsills are a great space to nurture birds, butterflies
Policy draft backs new vaccines
Health experts say new vaccines not essential enough to be in the national programme
Debate rages on HIB vaccine
Are compulsory rural postings for medical students needed to revamp health centres?
Tough nut to crack
Cancer, who cares!
Warnings, pictures showing ill effects of tobacco on packets have not worked
Rags to pads
Self-help groups making low-cost sanitary napkins are ready to supply them to rural India
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
No two-finger test for rape
Health ministry does away with the controversial test; medicos demand use of rape kit
Trial and error
Recent notifications offer no security to clinical trial participants
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.…
India in talks with Russia on ‘unverified’ COVID-19 vaccine
Indian serostudies do not talk about neutralising antibodies, says ICMR DG
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
SC slams health ministry for unchecked clinical trials
Says trials of all new drugs must be supervised by health secretary
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
Number of children vaccinated last year is unimpressive
Despite an intensified immunisation scheme, children in the country are not fully immunised
H1N1 caught India sleeping