Low academic performers prone to higher stress: study

Psychologists have observed that children and adolescents are facing enormous anxiety and stress in the course of their academic programmes, …

Menopaused 20-somethings

Hysterectomies on a high since the launch of insurance scheme for BPL families in Andhra Pradesh  

Rajasthan’s Right To Health Bill lacks teeth, say experts

Implementation timeframe, process missing from document

Flawed legislation

Centre’s law to regulate healthcare system faces resistance in many states

‘Allocation for health services should be double of what it is’

Innovation in medicine and vaccine research a must now

TOBACCO MENACE

Asia should spend more to tackle AIDS, says UN

A vaccine for corrupt alliances

Promises alone cannot improve people’s health; government should know that

Now, government has promised ‘world’s largest health scheme’ whose implementation is not possible, at least in 2018.

COVID-19: A long economic quarantine

Forecast of high temperature, erratic rains and cyclone push India’s poor into a point of no survival return  

Diagnose the discord

Latest data shows that cancer is rising sharply in India. It's time we understood the intriguing facts from cancer registries to frame a more …

AIDS: how far the world has come and how far it needs to go to get to zero

Globally, the health community is moving to a point where there could be zero new HIV infections or deaths. But it has been a long road

Study flouts basics in privatizing healthcare

CII study recommends greater private role in India's healthcare sector, but the document centres around the lucrative tertiary care market only

Maharashtra set to notify standards for private healthcare units

Debate rages on HIB vaccine

Are compulsory rural postings for medical students needed to revamp health centres?

Tough nut to crack

When the government must step in

Premature scheme

Gujarat's plan to increase institutional deliveries among expecting mothers has fallen flat

Banking on mothers

A bank in Udaipur collects mothers’ milk; experts to chalk out plan to include it in national policy

Access denied

Shortage of antiretroviral drugs and lack of diagnosis is not new in India, but government does not admit to the crisis

Trial and error

Recent notifications offer no security to clinical trial participants

WHO's Stop TB partnership programme

Out of breath

After visiting hospitals and slums VIBHA VARSHNEY has found that asthma makes poor children suffer far more than their rich counterparts. And a …

Bloodless ban

Health activists demand removal of ban on unbanked direct blood transfusion