Run from cover

Health insurance companies pursue customers till policies are sold. Then they disappear. The nature of business has already changed the treatment …

Left to quacks

Unauthorized medical practitioners find business where Bihar’s health machinery deserts polio victims

Where do pregnant women go?

The body factory

Sayantan Bera photographs the no-nonsense obsession with muscles

Health wise

Arunachal Pradesh wakes up to the fact that women's health is the key to overall societal well-being

Why are we all falling ill

The pursuit of unsustainable economic growth, bad development policy, lack of good science, and poverty are a prescription for ill-health. These …

Degree without honours

Parliamentary committee turns down a proposed three-year course in rural health

Of men and muscles

Rags to pads

Self-help groups making low-cost sanitary napkins are ready to supply them to rural India

Trial and error

Recent notifications offer no security to clinical trial participants

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 …

Endgame begins

Experts say India needs to move beyond oral vaccine to battle vaccine-generated polio

On the pollutant hunt

Regular and planned monitoring of air quality in India started with the national ambient air quality monitoring (naaqm) network, launched by CPCB …

It's all in the air

Monitoring air quality in India seems to have finally got a headstart. But what is of concern is the manner in which the process will be regulated.…

Leading a leaded life

Effects on human health due to lead contamination of air and water

You just got fatter

60 people battle giants

Rooftop radiation binds the Mobile Tower Grievance Forum

Shudder islands

Harsh environment, government apathy are literally driving Sundarbans inhabitants mad

Acid attack

Unregulated lead extraction from used batteries cannot be ignored

Matter of life and death

Who are you?

Microorganisms have a complex equation with humans. From the structure of our bodies to cultural differences, the invisible beings influence our …

Fighting for a safer workplace

Workers often fail to get proper medical treatment because they are mostly ignorant of occupational diseases.

Dying in stages

Thirty million HIV-infected people in the world live in developing nations. With no cures in sight, all they can do is wait for death. And lack …

When wealth is not health

India's economic growth has come at a terrible price. In two decades, while the GDP more than doubled, vehicular pollution increased eight times …

Micro is big. Talk nano

Researchers studying the health effects of tiny particles from vehicular emissions are finding out more on a new threat: nanoparticles