HIV, TB, malaria prevalence will reduce with fewer inequalities in healthcare: WHO

A recent WHO report takes a look at 32 health indicators from 186 countries on HIV, TB and malaria, that kill 2 million annually  

Number of tobacco users continues to decrease globally: WHO

However, several countries are still not adequately implementing policies to help tobacco users to quit, the WHO said

What India’s first assessment of district hospitals found

Not all 707 district hospitals performed as standards demand  

Bigger share of non-communicable, injury neurological disorders in India’s disease burden

Stroke, headache disorders and epilepsy were the biggest contributors of India's neurlogical disease burden

Troubled interiors: How COVID-19 second wave has struck deep in heartland India

The second wave saw COVID-19 spread beyond urban centres, infecting rural and tribal populations. DTE examined 16 severely hit districts on how …

Anaemia: India needs social norms-based interventions at every phase of a woman’s life

While behaviour change communication for drug adherence and knowledge of anaemia as a serious disease is needed, challenging detrimental social …

More than half of India’s April COVID-19 deaths were in rural districts

Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, 7 other states / UTs recorded more cases and deaths in rural districts last month

Depletion of particular brain tissue linked to chronic depression, suicide: Study

Astrocytes, a kind of supportive nerve cells, were found in much lower quantity in people who died by suicide

Vaccine leadership, not chauvinism

We need the world’s drug regulators to come together to scrutinise clinical trial data — not take decisions one after another

Simply Put: Who owns the road?

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 …

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

Simply Put: Healthcare for all

‘COVID-19 has become endemic in India’

But the world is not out of the woods yet

Simply Put: Your money, your healthcare

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

Simply Put: Tale of 2 aspiring doctors

Looking back at 2021 through DTE's top 10 interviews

Simply Put: Caught in an antibiotics web

Debates That Matter (E-book)

How slowing down vaccination will affect the world’s children

April 24-30 marks World Immunization Week

‘A’ is for Ayurveda

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

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

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

Beyond vaccine hesitancy: Understanding systemic barriers to getting vaccinated

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