Irate doctors complain US reforms illegal

The American Medical Association contends that limiting prices or overall spending on health care is unconstitutional

Gandhian scheme provides rural health care

A seWhelp programme provides the poorest villagers in the area surrounding Mahoin Gandhi's Sevagrom ashrom with access to quality medical care.

Temperamental disease

Patients who are hypertensive inside a doctor's clinic are more likely to develop heart diseases

Light from an area of darkness

Strange but true. Health workers in Africa are successfully using antibiotics to slow down the spread of AIDS

Text care

SMS>> MALARIA • Kenya

Is violent behaviour hereditary?

A recent study suggests a link between genes and foul temper.

The tobacco battle

A section of American doctors raise a hueand cry against the defaulting tobacco industry

Bihar's rural Nightingales

Healthcare receives a boost in starkly poor villages

Stanching the bleeding heart

Forest officials suspended

VENEZUELA

Carry on doctor

Shady deal?

No endorsements for ethics

For the doc

Taken for a medical ride

Book>> The doctor is cheating you: A devastating expose of unethical malpractices in the medical field • by N C Asthana • …

Antibiotics, not antacids, to treat ulcers

Doctors and pharmaceutical companies have been slow to respond to growing evidence that peptic ulcers are better treated with antibiotics, rather …

Missionary women doctors in nineteenth century Delhi

Throughout the 1860s a frail young European woman with a medicine chest was a conspicuous presence at the women's ghats of the river Yamuna in …

BANGLADESH

The right formula

Nursing trouble

IN FAVOUR OF QUACKS

Double vision

The computer makes brain surgery a lot easier

A taste of dry death

As the Gujarat forest department persists in planting a weed that sucks dry all the water in its vicinity, the Little Rann of Kutch gets...

Drugs alone do not create health

Spending heavily on medicines does not necessarily result in better health, indicate recent studies.