India gets it first mental health policy

Timed to coincide with the World Mental Health Day, the policy aims to provide universal access to mental healthcare, especially to those living …

How effective is the global polio eradication drive?

An optimistic note, about wiping out polio from the six afflicted countries, was to be sounded at a conference organised by the World Health …

Battle against TB

Latest WHO report highlights the advances made by countries in controlling the spread of tuberculosis and recommends ways to achieve eradication 

Antimicrobial resistance: Madhya Pradesh’s action plan needs targeted and specific interventions

Antibiotics in food animals an essential environmental and public health issue

The salt challenge

Its restriction in food can help India fight high BP

Don't ignore the deadly sign

Government buckles under pressure from tobacco industry and halts order on large pictorial warnings on tobacco products. Will profit prevail over …

Impatient to sterilise

In a hurry to bring down fertility rate, health officials are blatantly flouting government’s guidelines

Why no cover for mental illness? Supreme Court asks Centre, regulator

Actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death brings issue back in focus

Out of control

Parts of India still struggle to stabilise population growth

Bill shows the way

Stringent laws in India can control unethical practices

Delivering safety

All safe motherhood programmes of the government are focused on institutional deliveries, but health centres are in disarray. Experts suggest …

Diabetes plan staggers

National programme to combat the disease is inadequate  

Postnatal care critical to reducing maternal and infant mortality

Many women in low- and middle-income countries do not use postnatal care, says study

Veil against toxicity

Chemicals available in Europe would now be tested and labelled for their adverse impacts

Any cheers for Doha pact?

The Doha Declaration on protecting public health is a decade old, but developing countries have not been able to make use of TRIPs flexibilities

Is UN giving in to industry?

UN adopts resolution to fight chronic lifestyle diseases, without targets or commitments

Elderly & lonely

India has more elderly people than ever before. Most of them have little social security and cannot afford healthcare. While the government seems …

Neo-addiction

Youngsters are getting hooked on flavoured e-cigarettes. Studies belie manufacturers’ claims

Antibiotic resistance: A new dose

How the world is gearing up to fight antibiotic resistance

Letters

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,…

Big tobacco blows new smoke rings

A third front has opened up in their war on Australia’s cigarette packaging rules

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.…