Maternal and neonatal mortality rate high despite improvement in childbirth practices

A study conducted in public health centres in Uttar Pradesh shows complying to essential childbirth practices did not significantly alter …

Good scheme in bad health

A little known community monitoring scheme could prove handy for the new government, which is readying to revamp the country's healthcare system

Children of a lesser god

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

Government launches new health programme for adolescents

Earlier schemes were confined only to sexual and reproductive health, say health officials

Get your own vaccine

Down To Earth filed an RTI application to find out the reason of vaccine shortage in India. The response revealed how a plan to promote private …

Health ministry merges TB programme with rural health mission

TB control supervision will suffer, say officials manning the programme

The Gates accounts

CBI gets tough on rural health mission scam in Uttar Pradesh

How Central funds meant for upgrading healthcare facilities are siphoned off

Prevention is cure

When preventive measures can fight encephalitis, is there a need for treatment in ill-equipped primary health centres?

Chhattisgarh to outsource diagnostic services in government hospitals

Activists say these centres will end up serving outside patients at the cost of hospital patients

Why India remains malnourished

Despite a fast-growing economy and the largest anti-malnutrition programme, India has the world’s worst level of child malnutrition. The …

Mission health for all

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

Uttar Pradesh engages Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve health, agriculture and financial services to the poor

Health activists wary

Pentavalent vaccine approved in five more states. Health ministry brushes aside safety concerns

Four children in Kerala reportedly died immediately after the vaccine was administered

No infrastructure for universal health coverage in India, says report

Infrastructure for primary healthcare has decreased in the past decade

The link between blood pressure and suicides

Get your own vaccine

Healthcare services for adivasis in a shambles

Pregnant, anaemic, adivasi women do not even get iron tablets

Education policy for kids under six

Experts say the plan misses diet, care and ignores children with special needs

Bihar’s ambulance service staff go on strike

They have not been paid salaries for six months; private companies operating services under PPP model blame government

Why infant deaths continue in north Bengal

Over 350 infants have died in spurts at the Malda district hospital in the past few years; malnourishment, overcrowding and almost non-existent …

Budget brings no relief to health sector

FM does not mention Universal Health Coverage, combines rural and urban health missions while making allocations

Unhealthy countryside

It was once associated with the rich and urban. Today, hypertension is fast spreading in rural India. This is a cause for concern because …

Rising trend

Poor and the young are new victims of hypertension

Political parties use rural health mission scam stick to beat Mayawati government

Bahujan Samaj Party leader defiant blames UPA for the mess