Promoting the fight against medical malpractice

Several voluntary organisations have started taking up cases of medical negligence, even as the debate over the liability of doctors continues.

From miracle cures to holistic development

A doctor whose aim once was to treat poor patients, now helps Soliga tribals to assert their rights and choose their own way of development.

Access denied

Doctors are withholding HIV therapy from some patients fearing their irresponsibility could harm others

A mother's love

A childless woman's search for emotional fulfilment through planting and nurturing saplingsby Malini Shankar

A Doctor tension

In some people, blood pressure rises when they visit the doctor.How do they deal with it?

A question of ethics

What does a doctor do when confronted with an hiv -positive case

After tigers

Reckless manhunt by Sariska forest officials, complain villagers

Bloggers rally to free medical workers in Libya

A voice silenced

Journalist dedicated to forest issues killed in Assam

Doctors without degrees

Where do pregnant women go?

Drug companies are buying doctors – for as little as a $16 meal

An important new study in the United States has found doctors who receive just one cheap meal from a drug company tend to prescribe a lot more of …

The Eklingapura experience

A joint forest management initiative succeeded at Eklingapura mainly because foresters were able to respond to the needs of the community.

Neglect robs Saurashtra park of greenery

A wilderness park nurtured carefully by a former maharaja of Bhavnagar looks decrepit today, with its resources plundered and its wildlife dwindling.

Court ruling on tree felling worries officials

A dispute over a plot demarcation has highlighted the problem of protecting privately owned forests in Himachal.

Ray of hope for transplant patients

A bill introduced during the last session of Parliament seeks to change the definition of death from when the heart stops beating to when the …

Sukhomajri at the crossroads

The forest department intervenes to spoil a successful conservation programme of a Haryana village. An assement by Richard Mahapatra

Doctors get warning

Uttar Pradesh serves notice to 150 negligent surgeons

SETTING THEM FREE

Taking wing

Flying doctors save lives in remote areas of East Africa

Ethnographical account by a forest officer

Tale of the wild

Barefoot health care

The sad plight of India's forestry graduates

Forest graduates are being sidelined in favour of science graduates in the State Forest Service

Supreme Court to consider doctors' appeal

The Supreme Court will decide whether medical practitioners can be held guilty of criminal negligence under the Consumer Protection Act.