How COVID-19 restrictions prevent Nairobi’s sex workers from accessing vital healthcare

Unfortunately, COVID-19 has made it harder than usual for sex workers all over Africa to access healthcare

COVID-19: Cities become hotspots again

54% daily cases since October recorded in urban districts; rural districts had a larger caseload in August, September

How to avoid infection after a COVID-19 death – an Ebola response veteran explains

Preventing transmission when handling the deceased is achieved by ‘contact precautions’

Coronavirus update: Health ministry releases data on protective gears

Plan to use plasma of the immune in patients in UK

Revealed: Protein ‘spike’ that lets novel coronavirus pierce, invade human cells

Knowing the structure of the virus’s spike protein gives us crucial information about exactly how the virus infects host cells

False information fuels fear during disease outbreaks: There is an antidote

Editors and journalists no longer control the flow of news and opinion. Anyone can generate and distribute text, images, sound clips and video on …

Public health emergency declared in Delhi due to air pollution

The overall air quality index on November 1 afternoon was around 530

Large graphical health warnings on tobacco packets more effective: Study

Such warnings help prevent initiation and motivate cessation, find researchers

Govt's share of spending on nutrition, public health reduces in the last four years

Even the outstanding liabilities of states have been growing at double digits

Spread of polio remains a public health emergency: WHO

Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries exporting poliovirus but worldwide threat remains

Precautionary trickle

Mexico's tax on sugar-sweetened beverages has positively impacted public health. India too imposes huge taxes, but not with the purpose of …

High prices of food lead to malnutrition, says study

Poorer households have the smallest food reserves and are therefore hardest hit by rising food prices: study

India’s mysterious diseases: ‘We need a public health system’

Human health management is dismally low in India, says T Jacob John, virologist and former professor at Christian Medical College, Vellore

Surviving heatwaves: What can India learn from France

Heatwave events caused 22,223 deaths from 1992 to 2015 in India 

Monkeypox is endemic in Nigeria. But surveillance isn’t what it should be

Virologist Oyewale Tomori explains what Nigeria, where the virus is endemic, should be doing to prepare for an outbreak

Mosquitoes in a warming world: Aedes the menace

Latest Zika outbreaks indicate mosquito-borne diseases are fast spreading to new populations and regions & are no longer restricted to monsoon.…

Behind the curve: How COVID-19 exposed India’s apathetic rural health infrastructure

It should not have taken a pandemic for the government to realise the importance of the rural healthcare infrastructure and of universal free …

COVID-19 vaccines: Did a delayed second dose give the delta variant an evolutionary helping hand?

Those with a single dose of the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine less-protected than those with 2 doses: Public Health England

Governance matters: COVID-19 pandemic shows how

India’s shame is not the virus but the fact that we do so little to provide healthcare even in normal times  

First ever national survey shows the extent of South Africa’s TB problem

In 2019, 58,000 people died of TB in South Africa and 1.4 million people died from TB globally

Remdesivir: Predatory pricing of an unproven drug

Gilead Science’s price for the remdesivir drug reveals a faulty patents system and skewed policies of the United States

‘They stole my womb’: Doctors mislead thousands of women to get their uterus removed

DTE found most women who have undergone hysterectomy to be under 30, not needing the surgery

Vaccines without needles: New shelf-stable film could revolutionise how medicines are distributed worldwide

A research group claims to have developed a method to stabilise live viruses and other biological medicines in a rapidly dissolving film that …

Hidden cost of global food, land use at $12 trillion: Report

This is expected to rise to more than $16 trillion a year by 2050, finds a report by Food and Land use Coalition 

WHO report on polluted cities in India a dire warning: CSE

Of the 5,000 odd cities and towns in India, monitoring is being done in only 307 cities