National Digital Health Mission: Weak links in a weak chain

Instead of making a show of improving private healthcare, the Union government would be better off if it focuses on improving its public health …

Despite improved WHO regulations, the world remains ill-prepared for the next pandemic

The international community has not yet agreed on a text for a pandemic agreement due to several challenges; the WHO has announced next steps for …

Debates That Matter (E-book)

Simply Put: Tale of 2 aspiring doctors

Looking back at 2021 through DTE's top 10 interviews

Simply Put: Caught in an antibiotics web

How slowing down vaccination will affect the world’s children

April 24-30 marks World Immunization Week

Monkeypox can be transmitted to babies during and after pregnancy. We should be watchful but not alarmed

The virus can enter the body via broken skin, the respiratory tract or mucous membranes

Ahead of COP28, health professionals call for urgent action on climate change to prevent premature deaths

Global health bodies demanded governments to urgently phase out fossil fuels, accelerate renewable energy

AMR Awareness Week: Behavioural, organisational and environmental aspects are vital for containing resistance

Problem underpinned by complex drivers and behaviours; multisectoral and multidimensional efforts required

How colistin went from ‘holy water’ in medicine to ‘sewage’ of resistance

The antimicrobial resistance crisis is affecting even the efficiency of medicines like colistin, whose use is reserved for cases where other …

Simply Put: Your money, your healthcare

Simply Put: Who owns the road?

Simply Put: Healthcare for all

‘COVID-19 has become endemic in India’

But the world is not out of the woods yet

Right anti-venom, given on time, can reduce snakebite deaths in India

 India alone accounts for nearly half of the global annual snakebite deaths

Why is Antimicrobial Resistance the biggest threat to humanity?

The rise of AMR is due to unsustainable practices in overlapping ecosystems of animal, environmental and human health. Therefore, it requires a …

New antibiotics, challenges and possibilities: A Conversation with Manica Balasegaram

Research and development of new antibiotics should continue and older ones should be preserved, says executive director of GARDP 

Front of package labeling: Why is the ‘health-star rating’ bad for food safety in India?

Nutrition experts and civil society organizations campaigning for good food are unhappy about FSSAI’s health star rating

Antimicrobial resistant bacteria found in newborn children

These superbugs were most likely transmitted from mothers or the hospital environment to the newborns

What is this new Langya virus? Do we need to be worried?

Symptoms reported appeared to be mostly mild – fever, fatigue, cough, loss of appetite, muscle aches, nausea and headache 

New Zealand’s ‘tobacco endgame’ law will be a world first for health – here’s what the modelling shows us

New policy settings to cut smoking prevalence to under 5% of adult population within years

Viruses may be ‘watching’ you — some microbes lie in wait until their hosts unknowingly give them the signal to start multiplying and kill them

HIV is a retrovirus that does not go directly on a killing spree when it enters a cell

‘A’ is for Ayurveda

A 3-part series by DTE that explores the issues with Ayurveda as a system of medicine today

Beyond vaccine hesitancy: Understanding systemic barriers to getting vaccinated

Barriers include technology access, language requirements, accessible transportation and childcare, gaps in accommodations for disability&…