Short on paramedics

Hospitals employ untrained staff due to acute shortage of qualified paramedics in the country

India nowhere near millennium goal for maternal mortality

Assam has consistently been the worst performing state while Kerala the best in reducing maternal mortality rate

Hepatitis afflicts many HIV/AIDS patients, but there is no policy for them

Health ministry and AIDS control body keep shifting responsibility; no statistics available on patients with co-infection

Money set aside to build institutions, not public health

Preventive and primary healthcare get a miss in the budget 2014

Money set aside to build institutions, not public health

Preventive and primary healthcare get a miss in the budget 2014

Deficient programme

Centre wants to treat anaemia with iron tablets. Can pills substitute nutritious food?

Cabinet approves National Policy for Children

Health experts say it has many shortcomings

State of malnourished children

CAG’s latest report blames poor management of anganwadis in Gujarat for the problem

Rainfall pattern changing in India

Uttarakhand receives more rainfall in June than before

Degree without honours

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

Health ministry merges TB programme with rural health mission

TB control supervision will suffer, say officials manning the programme

Parliament panel turns down proposal of BSc course in rural health

Government may face contempt of court

Drug pricing policies bent to favour pharma industry, allege health experts

Nearly 83 per cent medicines out of the ambit of price control policy, thus making them out of reach for most patients, say two recent reports

Check global warming to prevent Uttarakhand-like disasters: World Bank

Report warns of substantially reduced flow in Indian rivers in lean season and acute food scarcity if heat is not turned down

The minimum radioactive dose for treating thyroid cancer

The approach to treating thyroid cancer has changed over time. One method is using radioactive iodine to kill left over cells after surgically …

Big promises to curb hypertension, but no funds

India does not have sufficient funds or plan to eradicate non-communicable diseases

Why India remains malnourished

Despite a fast-growing economy and the largest anti-malnutrition programme, India has the world’s worst level of child malnutrition. The …

Guidelines released to help elderly take insulin injections the correct way

Updated guidelines say physicians should not use age as an excuse to avoid use of insulin which can delay treatment, result in complications

Phase-II trials for new clot buster drug approved

Bio-therapeutic drug, Clot Specific Streptokinase, meant for patients who suffer heat attack, was developed using bacteria

The imperative of controlling blood pressure

High blood pressure or hypertension is both preventable and treatable. One in three adults worldwide has high blood pressure. In an interview …

Urban heat islands dot Delhi

Temperature hot spots found in seven of 11 weather stations in the national capital

Elderly & lonely

India has more elderly people than ever before. Most of them have little social security and cannot afford healthcare. While the government seems …

Delhi government puts cap of Rs 4,500 on H1N1 test

Private labs were reportedly charging as high as Rs 10,000 for a single test

Now healthy ads sell junk food

Commercials mislead consumers by shifting the focus from poor nutrition to physical exercise

When flu turns fatal

In the past two months, as many as 1,198 people in India have died of swine flu, a disease which is only as threatening as seasonal flu. Jyotsna …