Revenue targets, management staff making doctors pawns in corporate hospitals: Study

‘Corporate hospitals have reduced patients to factories’

I think, therefore I get well

Cures based on the mind-body nexus are gradually finding favour

Dream cures

Thought therapy

Spiritual healing is in. New Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences is introducing it in its departments. Companies across USA are using …

Unique therapy

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Easy, affordable devices: Meet game changers of India's health sector

Medical diagnostics in India is set to witness a boom time as a wide array of easy-to-use and affordable devices are ready for roll-out

Traditional knowledge: Let the people decide

Pulse relief

Attack migraine in its aura  

Shamans. mystics and doctors

The hesitant growth of surgery in Bengal

Rapid strides in Western medicine and surgery relegated Indian medical systems to the back seat, especially because of brahmanical abhorrence of …

Due recognition

Mutated future?

Is gene therapy really safe? Though most say yes, no one is absolutely sure

New regulations

The other course

Traditional curative systems like ayurveda, homoeopathy, acupuncture... are being revived as alternative medicine. But in India and the Orient, …

COVID-19: Govt’s survey exposes lack of preparedness across India

Lack of PPEs, ventilators and overall hospital preparedness reported as major concerns

Can Yoga cure cancer?

As Union Minister makes startling claim, Down To Earth speaks to experts on the subject

Treating cervical cancer

Radiation therapy and chemotherapy can halve cervical cancer deaths among women

Doctors without degrees

Feathers, nails, bones and blood!

Time has come for tribal medication to be revalidated

Wonderdrugs!

Misconceptions about steroids and the real reasons for their bad reputation

WHO releases technical guidance for procurement, safe use of radiotherapy devices

More than half the cancer patients require radiotherapy as part of cancer care

Mountains of Sanjeevani

The Uttarakhand government's initiative to spend Rs 25 crore on an elusive mythical herb should trigger a wider quest to identify, document and …