Low academic performers prone to higher stress: study
Psychologists have observed that children and adolescents are facing enormous anxiety and stress in the course of their academic programmes, …
Menopaused 20-somethings
Hysterectomies on a high since the launch of insurance scheme for BPL families in Andhra Pradesh
COVID-19: A long economic quarantine
Forecast of high temperature, erratic rains and cyclone push India’s poor into a point of no survival return
Promises alone cannot improve people’s health; government should know that
Now, government has promised ‘world’s largest health scheme’ whose implementation is not possible, at least in 2018.
Diagnose the discord
Latest data shows that cancer is rising sharply in India. It's time we understood the intriguing facts from cancer registries to frame a more …
AIDS: how far the world has come and how far it needs to go to get to zero
Globally, the health community is moving to a point where there could be zero new HIV infections or deaths. But it has been a long road
Study flouts basics in privatizing healthcare
CII study recommends greater private role in India's healthcare sector, but the document centres around the lucrative tertiary care market only
Access denied
Shortage of antiretroviral drugs and lack of diagnosis is not new in India, but government does not admit to the crisis
Premature scheme
Gujarat's plan to increase institutional deliveries among expecting mothers has fallen flat
Banking on mothers
A bank in Udaipur collects mothers’ milk; experts to chalk out plan to include it in national policy
Out of breath
After visiting hospitals and slums VIBHA VARSHNEY has found that asthma makes poor children suffer far more than their rich counterparts. And a …
Faulty formula
New drug pricing policy proposes bringing all essential medicines under price control, but makes them expensive
Short on paramedics
Hospitals employ untrained staff due to acute shortage of qualified paramedics in the country
India gets it first mental health policy
Timed to coincide with the World Mental Health Day, the policy aims to provide universal access to mental healthcare, especially to those living …
How effective is the global polio eradication drive?
An optimistic note, about wiping out polio from the six afflicted countries, was to be sounded at a conference organised by the World Health …
Battle against TB
Latest WHO report highlights the advances made by countries in controlling the spread of tuberculosis and recommends ways to achieve eradication
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 …
Don't ignore the deadly sign
Government buckles under pressure from tobacco industry and halts order on large pictorial warnings on tobacco products. Will profit prevail over …
Impatient to sterilise
In a hurry to bring down fertility rate, health officials are blatantly flouting government’s guidelines
Delivering safety
All safe motherhood programmes of the government are focused on institutional deliveries, but health centres are in disarray. Experts suggest …
Choking access to drugs
Drug prices are likely to increase as rich countries and their pharma companies squeeze Indian generics out of the market. How can India’s …
Any cheers for Doha pact?
The Doha Declaration on protecting public health is a decade old, but developing countries have not been able to make use of TRIPs flexibilities
Is UN giving in to industry?
UN adopts resolution to fight chronic lifestyle diseases, without targets or commitments
Elderly & lonely
India has more elderly people than ever before. Most of them have little social security and cannot afford healthcare. While the government seems …
Neo-addiction
Youngsters are getting hooked on flavoured e-cigarettes. Studies belie manufacturers’ claims