Farrukhabad children deaths show the rampant mismanagement in government hospitals

49 children have reportedly died in a month in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad district hospital due to lack of oxygen supply, but the …

Placebos are better

Reaching India's Poor: NGO Approaches to Community Health Edited by Saroj Pachauri Publisher: Sage Publications and Ford Foundation Price: Rs 325 (…

Beyond the acceptance level

Children in the US suffer lower IQ levels even at acceptable levels of lead in the blood

Poisoning food and science

Documentary>>Poison on the Platter directed by Ajay Kanchan presented by Mahesh Bhatt

Bad environment kills

A new study seeks to link pollutants to the spread of prostate cancer

Sucking in toxics

Presence of pollutants such as PCBs in mothers' milk and blood restrains children's growth

Asthma at home

What's cooking tonight?

Cooking smoke can increase the risk of catching tuberculosis

At cross purposes

Two traits to ward off malaria

DDT legacy

Residue causes foetal loss

Bytes

Less trees

...more malaria

Fantastic voyage

Micro-subs will deliver drugs to a specific site in the body

Breastfeed longer

Global health spending at record high post COVID-19, but can this be sustained?

India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Pakistan received barely 15% of the development assistance for health for COVID-19

Trial and error

Recent notifications offer no security to clinical trial participants

Birth pangs

Prickly issue

Maximum intake of pesticides is through skin

HapMap released

Makes for more effective cure of several diseases

Indigenous hormone kits

Cheap and stable at high temperature

Arsenic risk

Different for different people, suggests study

Cures from the sea

oral controls viral growth, may help treat cancer

According to report

Budget 2023-24: Marginal rise in health budget not enough to keep up with inflation, experts say

Lesser allocation for health over the years also indicates that we need to go a long way to reach the target of spending 2.5 per cent of GDP for …

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 …