Paramedics show the way
How hundreds of villages in Bangladesh have overcome child and maternal mortality 10 years before the MDG deadline
Flawed legislation
Centre’s law to regulate healthcare system faces resistance in many states
Access denied
Shortage of antiretroviral drugs and lack of diagnosis is not new in India, but government does not admit to the crisis
Setback to health insurance
Private hospitals in Chhattisgarh, Andhra refuse to treat under government insurance scheme
Pills for polls
The free medicine scheme in Rajasthan may benefit Congress
'It is strange that government promotes products which directly cause cancer'
Pankaj Chaturvedi, associate professor and head and neck cancer surgeon at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, was recently honoured with the Judy …
Parliament panel calls meeting to deliberate mental health Bill
Non-profits say it has provisions that would work against the interest of patients
How to cure corruption in healthcare
Rx: Only an effective governing body, which includes medical and non-medical members, can stop the culture of kickbacks
Good scheme in bad health
A little known community monitoring scheme could prove handy for the new government, which is readying to revamp the country's healthcare system
Muted response
Hepatitis C is a growing problem in India, but government has no programme to manage the disease
`Many doctors are simply businessmen'
Samiran Nundy, chairperson of the department of surgical gastroenterology and organ transplantation at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and editor-in-chief …
Battle against TB
Latest WHO report highlights the advances made by countries in controlling the spread of tuberculosis and recommends ways to achieve eradication
Delivering safety
All safe motherhood programmes of the government are focused on institutional deliveries, but health centres are in disarray. Experts suggest …
7,500 child TB patients go untreated in Madhya Pradesh
Paediatric TB drugs in short supply; norms forbid purchase of medicines from non-government sources
Heading towards a cliff
As India elects new government, the 12th Five Year Plan may no longer be pro-poor
'Chhattisgarh's PPP model for diagnostic services flawed'
Team of experts deputed by Centre says state's plan could lead to denial of services to poor patients and filing of false claims