Where's the fire alarm?

Most hospitals in India fail the fire safety test, yet they take no corrective step

HIV bill at risk

Health ministry keeps draft bill under wraps. Activists fear provision of free treatment is diluted

Court slaps contempt notice on MCI, health ministry

Medical Council of India failed to start rural health practitioner course

Endgame begins

Experts say India needs to move beyond oral vaccine to battle vaccine-generated polio

TB turns invincible

Discovery of a deadly form of TB in a Mumbai hospital  underscores mismanagement

Fever stalks UP

Battling Japanese encephalitis virus, Gorakhpur now has a new enemy: enterovirus

Leprosy looms

Latest survey dismisses government’s claims of disease elimination  

Health Act faces hurdles

Centre drafts guidelines to regulate clinical establishments; Indian Medical Association resists

Impatient to sterilise

In a hurry to bring down fertility rate, health officials are blatantly flouting government’s guidelines

Out of control

Parts of India still struggle to stabilise population growth

Keeping cancer alive

Punjab has been in the grip of cancer for over a decade but the government has ignored the threat. Sonal Matharu reports with photographer …