Iatrogenesis unbound: Review of 'Healers or Predators?'

A rare anthology of medical cases investigated to expose the corrupt underbelly of healthcare

Digital dispensaries: How district mineral foundations help healthcare in Odisha

Patients in mining-affected districts can connect to far-away doctors via Internet

A human-rights approach is essential to end the global TB epidemic

it is critical to ensure that tuberculosis services are included within essential universal healthcare packages and social protection programmes

Why is private healthcare opposing the Clinical Establishments Act?

Enforcing the act is troublesome as health is a state subject and states are succumbing to the pressure of the private healthcare sector, driven …

ASHA workers’ strike in Delhi continues

Workers demanding permanent salary and transport allowance

Only 5% of abortions in India take place in public health facilities

Women in India face considerable challenges due to limited availability of abortion services in public health facilities

Will Astana Declaration succeed where Alma-Ata failed?

The new declaration, that renews the global pledge to achieve universal health coverage by 2030, is a step forward but still lacks on several fronts

Budget 2018: Balanced focus on rural, urban health needs will be crucial

The Centre should push for further decentralisation of health services

The problem for biosimilars

Reliance Life Sciences won a case against Roche, 4 years after the MNC sued to stave off challenge to a hit breast cancer drug

Healthcare algorithm in US shows racial bias

The computer algorithm reduced the number of black patients by more than half, while gave more access to the whites for high-risk health care …

Noise pollution forces patients to check out of hospitals: study

Noise levels in intensive care units have been found to be as high as that generated by loud music coming through headphones

Why International Yoga Day is no cause for celebration in India

The debate around International Yoga Day is not about health benefits. It is about the media spectacle in the name of health when spending on …

Cost of setting up an AIIMs shot by 147% in just 4 years: CAG report

From 2006 to 2010, the cost of setting up an AIIMS shot by 147% under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana, shows a report by the …

Killer hospitals: Primary healthcare key to curb child deaths

Doctors at Odisha’s Vimsar hospital say if primary healthcare improves, the death toll at bigger hospitals would be fewer

Improving women's well-being needs more than access to free healthcare: study

Data from one of the largest state-funded health insurance scheme in India shows gender disparity continued even where free hospital care was provided

Health infrastructure sans care

Who will run all the institutes and labs promised?

Paramedics show the way

How hundreds of villages in Bangladesh have overcome child and maternal mortality 10 years before the MDG deadline

Inter-Parliamentary Union calls for Universal Health Coverage

The grouping of national parliaments passed a resolution to the effect in Belgrade, Serbia

Amid election din, encephalitis quietly kills 104 people in east UP

Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's tall claims of improving UP's healthcare system is an insult to the people

Developed nations should invest in healthcare of poorer countries: WHO

The Addis Ababa conference from July 13 to July 16 will also pave the way for the new set of Sustainable Development Goals

Antibiotic resistance: How to reduce consumption of antibiotics

Antimicrobial resistance affects public health in many parts of the world now. Left unchecked, they may even upstage several …

With 77% posts vacant, West Bengal’s drugs units and blood banks continue without licenses: CAG

Even most samples to be tested and certified by state’s drug inspectors for quality and safety for sale expired in laboratory before they …

Electing India’s health transformation

The new government must convene a meeting of central and state health ministers annually, to build consensus across the political spectrum and …

Plateful of pain

Climate change will make the disease burden more complex. Breakthroughs may help the affluent, but the poor will not have access to even basic …

Hospitals feel the heat too from extreme weather and its health impacts

Hospital infrastructure has not been adapted to secure health care during such events.