Russia ravaged
Crackdown on bad drugs
Malaria elimination: South Africa needs to regroup and refocus to get there
For the second time in a decade, South Africa is set to miss its malaria-elimination target
We know vaccines are the way out of COVID-19, but how are India’s numbers stacked
India is adding the most to the pandemic’s tally now; yet, the vaccination drive has lost steam before any significant gains
COVID-19: Rural India’s case load has topped since August
The pandemic has also killed more people in rural districts than in urban ones in September
How international scientific collaborators sideline African researchers
Scientists from sub-Saharan Africa writing research papers on health in their own countries are often not named first or senior author, finds a study
V(a)x populi: Should we or should we not vaccinate
Three experts come from three different points of view to the debate on compulsory vaccination
Scientists show how Vitamin D deficiency can cause heart failure
The new study has found that cardiac insulin leads to functional deterioration of heart in animals with low vitamin D levels
Plague bacteria may be hiding in common soil or water microbes, waiting to emerge
Where do plague bacteria go between outbreaks? New research demonstrates that they can survive and replicate inside amoebae that are widely …
Progress on controlling malaria cases stalls due to lack of funds: WHO
To achieve 40 per cent reduction in malaria cases and mortality rates by 2020, the focus should be on the most heavily affected countries in Africa
The trade in body parts of people with albinism is driven by myth and international inaction
An upcoming UN meeting on witchcraft and human rights in Geneva is set to focus on the rising attacks on Albinos and the trade of body parts in …
Demonetisation: public health system ill-equipped and unreliable
The government’s assurance of treatment in government hospitals is hollow as the system is inadequate
AMR Awareness Week: Tackling antimicrobial resistance is a critical global function
There are many advantages to using a global functions framework rather than just the narrow public goods framework
Simply Put: COVID-19 vaccinate the hare, vaccinate the tortoise
Coronavirus hits India: One confirmed case in Kerala, says Centre
Patient stable, under observation in isolation
Outbreaks of measles: compounding challenges in the DRC
Weak spot of prevalent strategy: Accessibility of routine preventive health services
India is facing a nasty outbreak of H3N2 — worst of seasonal flu viruses
H3N2 is a strain responsible for one of the three respiratory pandemics in the past century
African health ministers launch campaign to arrest sickle cell disease
Approximately 1,000 children are born with the disease every day in Africa, making it the most prevalent genetically-acquired disease in the region
Troubled interiors: How COVID-19 second wave has struck deep in heartland India
The second wave saw COVID-19 spread beyond urban centres, infecting rural and tribal populations. DTE examined 16 severely hit districts on how …
Selling a buffalo for a brain scan: India’s COVID-19 crisis reveals deep fractures in its health system
Patients are caught between the under-resourced public sector and the profit-focused private health market
Vaccine leadership, not chauvinism
We need the world’s drug regulators to come together to scrutinise clinical trial data — not take decisions one after another
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
Simply Put: India’s charge against COVID-19
Contours of coronavirus
Given near-certain shocks awaiting our world, it's time to rethink globalisation
Antibiotic resistance: How Zambia is trying to reign in AMR
Antibiotic abuse dog the country like many of its counterparts in Africa