Flower power

Rhododendron is a health freak's delight

Home is where AIDS care is in Uganda

Instead of treating AIDS patients in hospitals, an organisation in Uganda is effectively extending health care to them in their own homes

India's healthcare bureaucracy

Should they be called bio-terrorists?

I paid through my skin

Only to find out that weight loss clinics are a sham

Recalcitrant regime

Malaria thrives on administration in denial

Return of grand scale

Immunisation has to address ground realities

A step towards health rights for women

Saheli, a Delhi-based women's organisation, has, for some time, been fighting against long-acting female contraceptives like Net-oen and Norplant-…

Succour for cancer patients

Many terminally ill cancer patients have found succour in the last stages of their life at this Shanti Avedna Ashram , set up in 1978 by …

Perfect recipe

That can help remove kidney stones

Transforming a Karachi slum into a tidy suburb

The success of various programmes initiated under a pilot project in Orangi, a Karachi slum, has inspired its leader to predict the squatter …

Barefoot doctors

Backward Bihar villagers receive healthcare from barefoot 'first aid physicians'

Icy hot destination

What's a non-scientific visit to Antarctica like? Uncommon privilege, says urmi popat

Athens's fall

Typhoid could have caused the fall of the powerful city state during the Peloponnesian wars, says a new study

Unhealthy option?

Queries galore on health privatisation

Gandhian scheme provides rural health care

A seWhelp programme provides the poorest villagers in the area surrounding Mahoin Gandhi's Sevagrom ashrom with access to quality medical care.

Visionary

Blind terror: 80 per cent of the world's sightless are in the developing world, and the number will double by the turn of the century. Carl …

Understanding stress

Stress-related diseases like heart attacks are becoming common. Science is trying to understand how the human body copes with stress

Polio - alive and kicking

The polio virus is possibly the most innocuous virus that affects humans. The improvement of sanitation standards across the world has meant …

Foreign-made welcome

But India's health care system has little space for indigenously developed biotechnology

It was always measly

Post-liberalisation, public funding in health care has reached a nadir

Positive partnership

Organising to check AIDS

Changing social attitudes and behaviour has helped in the control of AIDS.

Community welfare works as a contraceptive

In Pakistan, they are controlling population growth by raising the living standards of local communities through Pasbaan, the social …

Bihar's rural Nightingales

Healthcare receives a boost in starkly poor villages

Root cures

A dedicated group of botanists, ayurvedic practitioners and pharmacologists are showing rural Keralites that all the medicines they need, grow in …