World Health Day: Indian tale of unfulfilled goals

India short of five lakh doctors and the situation is worse than Vietnam

More than half the world's population does not receive essential health care services

Under such circumstances, achieving universal health coverage by 2030 seems like an ambitious target

How drone, mobile-based platform bridging health care gap in Africa  

Innovations are happening in the planet's remotest places hosting the poorest, and they aim to solve Africa’s biggest challenge of giving …

Prescription done, how about the cure?

Space Supporting Africa: Volume 2: Education and Healthcare as Priority Areas in Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030

This book addresses the need to support decision-makers across Africa by promoting awareness of the importance of space technologies

The Pandemic Information Gap: The Brutal Economics of COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic is caused by a lack of good information. A pandemic is essentially an information problem: this is the enlightening and …

India's health workforce crisis

Doctor-patient ratio in India is much less than the WHO-prescribed limit of 1:1000  

Digitising healthcare without building physical infrastructure

Government announces its plan to connect 150,000 villages with high-speed internet, but what help will it be in absence of health infrastructure?

Rising cases of hypertension among poor in India: Interview with Amod Kumar

Amod Kumar is a senior specialist in community medicine at St Stephen's community health centre, New Delhi

Reaching Out

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Healthy advertising

Are advertisers bound -- legally or ethically -- to take potential health hazards into account?

Flower power

Rhododendron is a health freak's delight

Farrukhabad children deaths show the rampant mismanagement in government hospitals

49 children have reportedly died in a month in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad district hospital due to lack of oxygen supply, but the …

The poor anatomy of health care

Moody synthesisers

Communicate to cure

Army gets makeover

Unethical snooping

AIIMS headed for privatization?

Valiathan committee recommends private sector participation

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

Broken promises

'Health for all Indians by 2000' remains a myth