Why antibiotic resistance is getting worse in India

Powerful, newer generation drugs are being sold far more frequently for no apparent reason

Insurance becomes a hurdle

Government health insurance schemes have made life more difficult for the rural poor, finds Aparna Pallavi

Beyond a flailing state

Health ministry cannot provide basic services, the finance ministry cannot collect taxes and the chaos of governance worsens

Children of a lesser god

Ankur Paliwal finds out why Shravasti district is the worst place for a child to be born in

What ails Bundi?

Dinsa Sachan scours the Rajasthan district’s health centres for answers

Big tobacco blows new smoke rings

A third front has opened up in their war on Australia’s cigarette packaging rules

Patent issues delaying Ebola cure

Canada's exclusive licensing rights of its Ebola patent to a US firm are holding up global development of a vaccine

How to cope with heat waves

Accurate weather prediction and coordinated action plan hold the key

Coordinated international response must to eradicate polio, says WHO

Since May 2014, there has been new spread of poliovirus in central Asia and a poliovirus originating in Central Africa was reported from the Americas

Russia ravaged

Crackdown on bad drugs

SAARC ministers adopt Delhi declaration on public health

Supra-national laboratory for TB and HIV/AIDS to come up in Kathmandu with India bearing the major cost of the project

Cancerous chlorine

Mission health for all

What prime minister needs to do to make good his promise on making 12th Five-Year Plan a health plan

New study links diabetes with stress

People with type-2 diabetes have weakened biological ability to recover from stress

Out of pocket health spending has risen in rural India: study

Even after adjusting inflation, spending has increased 25 per cent in six years

Walking or cycling to work reduces health risks in India

Study makes case for investment in public transport, pedestrian and cycling routes

Budget banks on insurance; neglects deteriorating public healthcare

Stress on insurance poised to benefit the private sector

One national, eight regional paramedic institutes to open soon

Around 6.6 million allied health professionals short in India, finds a report

Tax hike on cigarettes can prevent four million deaths in India: report

ADB report points out that the amount of money spent by the poorest 10 million male smokers on cigarettes a day can actually help them buy 1,400 …

WHO proposes reforms following criticism over handling Ebola

WHO was too slow to react, admits WHO director-general

Treating tobacco-related diseases cost India Rs 16,800 crore in 2011: report

Spending on treating such diseases is just a little less than revenue from tobacco products; Union health minister, Harsh Vardhan, says he would …

Dengue cases in 2012 highest in four years

216 people across the country died of the disease

Gutkha ban has reduced consumption of tobacco in India: WHO

India is the world’s largest consumer of smokeless tobacco; nearly one million people die in the country every year due to tobacco use

Delhi smog lifts partially

Pollution build up in recent days corresponded with peak traffic hours and freight movement