Review of film The name of the disease

New infestation

135,000 affected by chikungunya disease, government yet to assess gravity of situation

Avian returns

Bird flu resurfaces, exposes weakness of testing system

Right tag

Stringent labelling norms

Research must go on

An icmr workshop shows developing researchers ways to live with trips

Bank's world

In Rajasthan, many newborns have not been vaccinated for eight days now

Health services are hit since 12,000 health workers are on strike to demand better salaries and timely promotion

Health system in Africa functions at just 53% of expected performance: WHO

WHO highlighted Africa’s high burden of public health emergencies arising from epidemics, extreme weather events, humanitarian crises and …

Climate change increases spread of anti-microbial resistant bacteria in Europe: Study

A research conducted in 30 European countries finds that climatic factors significantly contribute to the prediction of the resistance in …

New mobile app may help in addressing heart disease in rural areas

A group of Indian and Australian scientists has developed and tested a mobile application-based system that promises to help doctors and health …

Health inequities to be blamed for premature deaths among people with disabilities: WHO

They are at a two-fold risk of contracting chronic illnesses like asthma, depression, diabetes, obesity, dental disorders and stroke

DMF best practices: How Bijapur started a new healthcare model

Mining-affected districts have hired doctors, upgraded hospitals and improved last-mile healthcare access to communities with mining-related …

What Africa still needs to do to eliminate malaria

Eliminating malaria in Africa has been held back by a range of factors, including a lack of funds and drug and insecticide resistance challenges

COVID is officially no longer a global health emergency — here’s what that means

COVID will still have pandemic status, and countries will continue to have their own authority as to whether to treat COVID as an emergency …

Ageing world: Elderly population expected to double over the next 3 decades; are our policies mature enough to address it?

Gender inequalities persist into old age; women’s lower levels of formal labour market participation, shorter working lives & lower …

Correction pen is new tool to make cheap diagnostic kits

The pen, used to mask typos, helped researchers overcome the challenges associated with using paper in diagnostic tests

What’s ailing Delhi’s health sector? Decline in crucial infrastructure

There is a significant dip in the number of maternity homes and hospitals in the national capital

DMF should look beyond infrastructure

Sanctions under a non-profit trust for the develpoment of mining disrtricts needs to ensure adequate resources to improve the quality of and …

State turns its back on health sector

With state-run health care facilities proving ill-equipped to tackle the surge in dengue and chinkungunya patients, private medicos are …

Cough resistance

Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment in India is plagued by delayed diagnostics and inaccurate treatment procedures. An initiative in …

A plague on this country

The plague today holds the same threshold of dread that it did in the 14th century. So when the Black Death struck India late last month, the …

The ACD of malaria control

With the discovery that not all four anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria, programmes to control the disease need fresh appraisal

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 …

Sick berth

The Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre has done little for the long-term treatment of gas victims

Medical education in India does not address larger social needs for health care

Medical education is in the news for all the wrong reasons. The government's decision to extend reservations in institutions of higher education …