Fidget away the fat

A study reveals how fidgety and restless people do not gain weight even if they overeat

Crashing to peace

Sleepsmart, learn easy

Without adequate sleep, new skills may not get encoded into the brain's memory circuits

Pregnancy pangs

Hold that phone!

Keeping fit

Early memory loss

Hard on the teeth

Not immune to myths

Right conception

Healthy diet of mothers helps prevent natal leukaemia

Strings attached

Cashless health insurance now restricted

A programme for the polio victim?

No connection with patients

What India can do to strengthen community-based foster care for children in need of nurturing

Lack of awareness involving village-level child protection committees, non-availability of frontline workers dedicated to child protection …

India has ignored infertility for too long

India has a history of coercive family planning which ignored infertility. A shift in focus will help women’s health.  

When a drug giant ties up with a non-profit

J&J’s pact with Stop TB Partnership to supply generic versions of bedaquiline promises hope, but falls short in many ways 

India’s first monkeypox case reported from Kerala

The patient had returned to Kerala from the United Arab Emirates July 12 and was symptomatic at the time

Charity after profiteering, the Big Pharma way

Pfizer to sell its medicines at no profit in world’s poorest countries, and other big names to make cancer drugs more accessible

Stockholm+50: Securitisation of pandemics

India’s invocation of National Disaster Management Act to deal with a pandemic was a first and an extreme case of securitisation of COVID-…

India has the highest population with household exposure to pulmonary TB

At least 38 million people live in households across 20 high-burden countries, where at least one person has incident pulmonary TB 

How COVID-19 threatens to undo years of progress in TB control

For the first time since 2005, the number of deaths due to TB increased from one year to the next

Some key questions answered on COVID-19 vaccines for African countries

Vaccines for COVID-19 are generating a lot of talk. To shed some light on which vaccines are available for countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and …

Healthcare algorithm in US shows racial bias

The computer algorithm reduced the number of black patients by more than half, while gave more access to the whites for high-risk health care …

New guidelines for peritoneal dialysis services

Aim to serve a comprehensive manual to states that intend to set up peritoneal dialysis services and for providers of peritoneal dialysis as a &…

Three in four people with epilepsy in low-income countries may die early: WHO

Appropriate use of cheap and effective antiseizure medicines can make up to 70 per cent of people with epilepsy seizure free

Super Bug found in the Arctic traced back to Delhi

A scientist has found a “Superbug” gene in the Arctic region, Soil samples from Norwegian archipelago, a place which lies between …