Checks on drug trials

Court intervention prompts guidelines for drug trials. Pharmaceutical companies lobby to dilute them

Ethics on trial

Five per cent of the clinical trials conducted across the world will be in India by 2012. They are vital for confirming the efficacy of a new drug,…

Not so young at heart

Young hearts are more stressed out than they used to be. They bear much more pressure these days just to beat. Heart disease is no more an …

Operation cover-up

Rat poison theory offered by the Chhattisgarh government to explain the sterilisation deaths is a facade, finds an investigation by Jyotsna Singh.…

Troubled minds

In spite of a National Mental Health Programme being in place, very few people suffering from mental illnesses in India get treatment, either …

Trimming fats

The US is determined to eliminate trans fatty acids from its food. Can India do the same?

Cradles of hope

A recent health survey throws up figures that defy logic. Some districts in India’s nine most backward states have curbed infant mortality …

Centre bans gutkha

Activists, health experts are sceptical; pin hope on Supreme Court’s verdict on smokeless tobacco  

COP28: Say climate crisis, think health crisis

COP28 will include the first dedicated 'Health Day'. It's due recognition that a health crisis is inextricably linked to the climate crisis  

Fatal resistance

The strong and mighty bacteria are all around us. They have hardened themselves to fight back the antibiotics administered to patients. This is …

SNIPPETS

Plugging cavities in dental health policy

News Snippets

‘Online nutrition tracker to promptly plug service gaps’

Down To Earth talks to the project lead of Nutrition Surveillance System

Lure of the puff

Health monitor

The government clears a new policy to monitor epidemics and reduce disaster impacts

Old wives'tale

The US pollution laws surpass all limits of hypocrisy

Anti-smoking ad in the UK, ahead of ban on public smoking

Contours of coronavirus

Given near-certain shocks awaiting our world, it's time to rethink globalisation

Unhealthy affair: Book review - Make Health in India

An exhaustive analysis of the challenges India faces in the health sector

Antibiotic resistance: Spread across the world

Asia and Africa will account for 88.8 per cent of deaths from antimicrobial resistance

In UK, images to accompany anti-smoking warnings

Contraceptive chaos

Copper-T better in emergency, but doctors do not encourage its use

A question of ethics

What does a doctor do when confronted with an hiv -positive case

Doctors without degrees