Africa on its way to becoming a polio-free continent

It is likely that Nigeria will soon be removed by WHO from the list of countries where polio is endemic

Warning signal

Telecom service providers’ study shows mobile phone towers are safe. But are they?

People's risk

Community-based risk assessment and abatement is a must in the age of expanding business opportunities

Righting the target

Clearer understanding of an enzyme's role could lead to pain killers with less acute side-effects

Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 and Strengthening Health Systems in the Middle East and North Africa

This book presents options to mitigate Covid-19 impact.

Simply Put: Pediatrics department

Early intervention crucial for children with hearing loss

Children with severe to profound hearing loss can be treated as early as when they are eight months old

Hepatitis in children: Scientists have found a possible cause for the mystery outbreak

Childhood hepatitis is caused by an infection from one of the hepatitis viruses (such as hepatitis A or hepatitis C)

The Pandemic Information Gap: The Brutal Economics of COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic is caused by a lack of good information. A pandemic is essentially an information problem: this is the enlightening and …

New bioactive dental filling material promises to be teeth-friendly

A team of Indian scientists has developed a new technique that promises to help produce bioactive dental filling materials which will take much …

Novel cure on the horizon for dementia patients

People with dementia can get back their normal lives. Researchers at Queensland Brain Institute have managed to reverse dementia symptoms in mice.…

India's health workforce crisis

Doctor-patient ratio in India is much less than the WHO-prescribed limit of 1:1000  

When politicians endorse child marriage, you have to shout 'Beti bachao'

In a recent event, BJP MLA Gopal Parmar said that child marriage is the solution to many problems like ‘love jihad’, elopement and divorce

Can gene-editing save people from life-threatening diseases?

Two pharmaceutical companies CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals are trying to take that path

Space Supporting Africa: Volume 2: Education and Healthcare as Priority Areas in Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030

This book addresses the need to support decision-makers across Africa by promoting awareness of the importance of space technologies

How music psychology can boost mental illness identification

Researchers from IIIT Hyderabad use datafication of music to find how listening strategies reveal about our current mental state

A closer look at how brain fever gripped Bihar

The dreaded acute encephalopathy syndrome has Bihar struggling every year. The state has lost 1,673 children to the disease since 2010, shows …

‘It’s absurd to blame litchi for AES, malnourishment the real cause’

Arun Shah, a Muzaffarpur-based paediatrician who has researched on the syndrome, says the fruit is only a triggering factor for malnourished children

India ranks 113 of 176 countries on children's wellbeing

In its neighbourhood, India ranked fourth, behind Bhutan (98), Sri Lanka (56) and China (36)

Digitising healthcare without building physical infrastructure

Government announces its plan to connect 150,000 villages with high-speed internet, but what help will it be in absence of health infrastructure?

Dying too soon or living long with disability

The Lancet report on state of the world's health identifies key drivers of ill health, disability and death in countries to help governments …

Rising cases of hypertension among poor in India: Interview with Amod Kumar

Amod Kumar is a senior specialist in community medicine at St Stephen's community health centre, New Delhi

Food that kills

US food agency finds acrylamide in many foodstuffs

Soap sense

Antibacterial washes no better

Body odour

How a frog drives away mosquitoes