Shudder islands

Harsh environment, government apathy are literally driving Sundarbans inhabitants mad

Prevention is cure

When preventive measures can fight encephalitis, is there a need for treatment in ill-equipped primary health centres?

Rewind 2018: Health roundup of India

Major developments, policies, reports and disputes in the health sector

How to be a glutton and bloom with health

How what you tuck into can pull you back from the brink of death

Health-watch

Life expectancy in India will be 71 by the year 2025, says the latest World Health Report

WTO and drugs

What has Doha done to help poor nations meet their drug needs?

Unhealthy policy

A new policy fails to address key problems of healthcare

Bitter sweet mess

Exposure to dioxins may lead to diabetes

Legal salve

As palliative for AIDS

Come 2005

Or, why mohfw should be worried

Bytes

Human gut home to millions of beneficial bacteria

Human dependence on bacterial slaves

News snippets

I don't approve the methods of Naxals

The way ahead

Treatment has changed

Growth by leaps and bounds

How important is basic infrastructure in securing livelihoods of Adivasis

A significant proportion of poverty in backward areas is due to a gap in basic infrastructure and its deficiency

Nigeria faces shortage of meningitis vaccine as epidemic spreads

A new strand of the disease has emerged, for which vaccine is not available commercially 

Govt wishes to achieve healthcare goals by spending Rs 3 a day?

According to the latest National Health Profile, India is one of the countries with the lowest public health spending

Depression single largest contributor to global disability, says WHO

The alarming thing is that the number of people with common mental disorders is increasing, particularly in low-income countries

Bihar faces shortage of HIV drug

Activists blame it on poor coordination between NACO and state; say 20,000 patients at risk

HIV bill at risk

Health ministry keeps draft bill under wraps. Activists fear provision of free treatment is diluted

Bringing better health to the Indian woman

Efforts are on to tackle the abysmal state of female health in India, especially among the poorer sections

Ayurvedic surgeons hooks out guinea worms

A surgical technique developed by an ayurvedic team has drastically curtailed incidence of dracontiasis, a disease caused by guinea worms, in …