HIV bill at risk

Health ministry keeps draft bill under wraps. Activists fear provision of free treatment is diluted

Turmoil in academia

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

Endgame begins

Experts say India needs to move beyond oral vaccine to battle vaccine-generated polio

TB turns invincible

Discovery of a deadly form of TB in a Mumbai hospital  underscores mismanagement

Tough nut to crack

Cancer, who cares!

Warnings, pictures showing ill effects of tobacco on packets have not worked

Rags to pads

Self-help groups making low-cost sanitary napkins are ready to supply them to rural India

Trial and error

Recent notifications offer no security to clinical trial participants

Leprosy looms

Latest survey dismisses government’s claims of disease elimination  

Health Act faces hurdles

Centre drafts guidelines to regulate clinical establishments; Indian Medical Association resists

Degree without honours

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

Choking access to drugs

Drug prices are likely to increase as rich countries and their pharma companies squeeze Indian generics out of the market. How can India’s …

Universal health scare

The country’s planners are debating how to provide healthcare to all. In a drastic shift from the 65-year-old public health system, the …

Matter of life and death

Cradles of hope

A recent health survey throws up figures that defy logic. Some districts in India’s nine most backward states have curbed infant mortality …

Centre bans gutkha

Activists, health experts are sceptical; pin hope on Supreme Court’s verdict on smokeless tobacco  

Deadly target

Health experts blame Centre's over-emphasis on women's sterilisation for the Chhattisgarh tragedy

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

Deficient programme

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

Checks on drug trials

Court intervention prompts guidelines for drug trials. Pharmaceutical companies lobby to dilute them

Operation cover-up

Rat poison theory offered by the Chhattisgarh government to explain the sterilisation deaths is a facade, finds an investigation by Jyotsna Singh.…

Fight over non-existent biscuits

Are compulsory rural postings for medical students needed to revamp health centres?

Pharma companies determine what patients buy

Get your own vaccine