Setback to health insurance

Private hospitals in Chhattisgarh, Andhra refuse to treat under government insurance scheme

‘Manipulate market, lower drug prices’

In times of rising costs of healthcare compounded by shortage of funds, UNITAID, a UN organisation, was set up in 2006 to improve access to life-…

Prometheus bound

The denial of a patent on a medical test that correlates drug dosages with treatment could mean the end of human gene patents

How do blood tests work? Medical laboratory scientists explain the process

There are a lot of steps in the pathway from blood draw to diagnosis and treatment 

Muted response

Hepatitis C is a growing problem in India, but government has no programme to manage the disease

Battle against TB

Latest WHO report highlights the advances made by countries in controlling the spread of tuberculosis and recommends ways to achieve eradication 

Half a cervical cancer vaccine

Tests for early detection are more important in India

Unprepared for Ebola

The rapid spread of Ebola to three continents shows that the world needs effective surveillance and response system to check infectious diseases

Suffering SARS

Is the crisis spawned by this new viral infection a failure of global health governance?

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 …

Troubled minds

In spite of a National Mental Health Programme being in place, very few people suffering from mental illnesses in India get treatment, either …

SARS - India's wrong diagnosis

The Union government's recent declaration that India does not have any cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) may have allayed the …

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 …

Portable cure

Antique X-ray machine

X-Ray Equipment>> History • The Net

Sniffing out cancer

Hot superconductivity

The many applications of high-temperature superconductors

The Double check

New syringe for accurate blood tests

Its always about DNA

Blood is the clue, its genes are the target for curing diseases

Tracking AIDS

A PET DIAGNOSTICS

A corpse in cyberspace

Virtual reality's first human ghost is going to bail out medical research

Computerised conception

Test at home

Life-saving kit