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