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 …

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 …

The other course

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

Five steps to recovery

Panchakarma , an ayurvedic treatment, holds the key to Bhopal gas victims' recovery

The other course

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

Roots

Worldwide, traditional medicinal systems are in the process of being modernised. Besides health care and conservation of medicinal plants, the …

Turmoil in academia

Tenure of Medical Council of India’s governing body set to expire; Centre unclear about next move

Spare change

Resources devoted to health care systems are neither divided equitably nor in proportion to the distribution of health problems

Agony of the waiting

There is a strange calmness in the oncology department of government hospitals though it is more crowded that most other sections. Everybody waits.…

Shamans. mystics and doctors

Healing a tradition

A low-tech online network connects traditional healers and patients in Bhopal

Bitter ABS medicine for AYUSH

Manufacturers cry foul as they receive notices from state boards to pay royalty

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

Battered Lungs

Lung cancer is a result of the deadly cocktail of smoking, air pollution and poverty

Today's Plague

Some of the most common cancers in India are directly linked to poverty

Killer with a BIAS

There is overwhelming evidence that some of the common cancers target the poor

Environmental injustice

The poorest people in urban India live in foul environs. Research from across the world shows that the poor stand greater risks of several cancers.…

Silenced to death

The media and the government keep mum on pollution-cancer linkages and the abysmal medical help available in India against the menace

Tough trial

Can Indian traditional medicines transfer their ancient efficacy to the modern era?

Dream cures

Unique therapy

Due recognition

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