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