Growth by leaps and bounds

Encouraging orphan drugs in India

India needs to formulate an atrractive law to spur development of drugs for rare diseases

Placebos are better

Reaching India's Poor: NGO Approaches to Community Health Edited by Saroj Pachauri Publisher: Sage Publications and Ford Foundation Price: Rs 325 (…

In AID(S) of the dying

To tackle the killer disease ravaging South Africa, the government's health policy will have to undergo a drastic change

Demand charter from children for education, health sectors

Report>>Ensuring Universal Access To Health and Education in India, Wada Na Todo Abhiyan, Delhi 2007

Failure from the jaws of success

Chhattisgarh reduced infant mortality a few years ago, but threw away the good work  

No evidence of COVID-19 transmission through food, say scientists

Packaging of food is not a source of contamination, according to experts 

Antibiotic resistance: China battles population, size

Health care reform since 2011 bear results but more needs to be done

A year later, the government’s promises on mental health still unfulfilled

No update on Mental Health Care Bill, other promises

Stem cell dilemma

How clinics use embryonic therapy not approved by ICMR

Revising rules

Unhealthy decision?

A new bill on environment-related risks is rejected by the Delhi Assembly

Perpetually ill-prepared

Inept response as mystery fever grips Uttar Pradesh

Nothing gay about section 377

Doctors rush for village posting

Privacy vs pandemic: Govt tracking of mobile phones could be a potent weapon against COVID-19

Do we want governments to assemble a searchable database of locations of almost every citizen 

Disease eradication targets: will they be met?

The Finance Minister announced that government has action plans to eliminate kala-azar by 2017 and tuberculosis by 2025, among others

Rajya Sabha passes Mental Health Bill

Under the legislation, every individual will have the right to get affordable and good quality treatment with easy access to services

Run from cover

Health insurance companies pursue customers till policies are sold. Then they disappear. The nature of business has already changed the treatment …

WHO comes out with framework to combat Zika virus

Says $56 million would be required to implement the framework

Killer puff

Smoking killed 100 million men in last century

Draft Public Health Bill restrictive, unclear: experts

They raise concern over the sudden introduction of the bill and its covert focus on bioterrorism

WHO nod for new TB drug

Issues guidelines for use of bedaquiline that can treat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis

COVID-19: Challenges today and tomorrow

The choice is stark for Indians

Broken promises

'Health for all Indians by 2000' remains a myth