Wheeze wave

The UK reels under the burden of respiratory ailments

Battling the worm

Wider ambit

Move to increase scope of international health laws

High toll

Mystery fever hits Arunachal

'Label nutrition value of all food products'

Health ministry body proposes

Water bug can check filariasis

Devours larval and pupal stages of the culprit mosquito

Dial Rx for telemedicine

Rural patients consult city doctors via satellite link

Cholesterol remover

A polymer can do the trick

They won't chicken out

Debt end

Efforts to relieve poor countries of their debt remains inadequate

No endorsements for ethics

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Refugees, migrant populations particularly vulnerable to antimicrobial resistance: WHO

Healthcare needs of these populations are heterogenous and depend heavily on host countries’ capacity

Show your account books, Delhi HC asks Centre on rare disease 'burden'

Statement after Centre said assigning funds more than Rs 15 lakh as financial assistance for rare diseases’ patients would be a big …

Grand challenge for cancer research announced

The India Cancer Research Consortium will organize a challenge to develop cost effective and affordable approaches for screening, early diagnosis …

AES and Gorakhpur's BRD hospital: A case study in why primary healthcare needs beefing up

AES cases haven't yet come up this season in UP, but BRD is crammed already with patients, some of whom have travelled 100 km 

Lessons from Muzaffarpur

The AES outbreak in North Bihar must be taken as another opportunity for India to reflect and brainstorm to decide a way ahead for future health …

World Autism Day – let’s allow disability to change our societies for the better

Autism has changed. The diagnosis has changed. But have we? I have an idea — let’s let autism change us.

Gandhi: Fitness freak and champion of sustainable food

Tenets of good health preached by Mahatma Gandhi: Walking, physical activity, fresh vegetables and fruits, low sugar, salt and fats, avoiding …

Is your talc safe? Lack of consensus puts consumers at risk of cancer, lung problems

Health Canada studied talcum free of asbestos and found the popular cosmetic item can be harmful  

How West Bengal plans to counter a shift in dengue strain

Health and family welfare departmentt alerts district magistrates, focuses on slums as new serotype takes centre stage

Pale and yellow

Shortage of vaccines has pushed many African countries to the brink of a yellow fever epidemic

Troubled by illness, 385,000 people committed suicide between 2001 and 2015

At least four per cent of India’s population suffers from poverty because they have to incur huge expenses for treating their illness

India's budget just declared

Prime Minister Narendra Modi declares major schemes in his post-demonetisation message on new year's eve

Brexit and Trump are bad for our health

Increasing isolation threatens global health. International cooperation is critical to fighting diseases that will not respect borders