Prevention is cure

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

On WHO agenda: a global vaccine action plan

Health activists say new policy may not address the weaknesses in ongoing routine immunisation programmes and would flood poor countries with new …

Get your own vaccine

When flu turns fatal

In the past two months, as many as 1,198 people in India have died of swine flu, a disease which is only as threatening as seasonal flu. Jyotsna …

Brazil battles yellow fever

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Victims of vaccination

Vaccine trials in a Madhya Pradesh government hospital are making children sick. Culprit: harmful chemicals in high amounts

Manipulating Research

Private funding has given a new meaning to scientific research today. With rising corporate research budgets, academic institutions are leaning …

What ails Bundi?

Dinsa Sachan scours the Rajasthan district’s health centres for answers

Yellow fever outbreak feared in Ivory Coast

Pakistan elections: health on agenda

Pakistani politicians woo voters with proposals for improvements in country’s healthcare system ahead of polling on Saturday

Japanese encephalitis in Assam

Floods lead to disease outbreak in Kenya

'South Asia, Africa show poor progress towards MDGs'

India fares worse than Bangladesh and Nepal, says report

COVID-19: WHO, UNICEF flag sharp decline in vaccination, warn of more lapses

There was a substantial drop in number of children completing three doses of vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis in first four …

South Asia

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Fatal resistance

The strong and mighty bacteria are all around us. They have hardened themselves to fight back the antibiotics administered to patients. This is …