Child birth: Govt doctors either leave women scarred or refuse care

Several women end up giving birth on roads, which raises a question on the medical fraternity’s ethical and humanitarian values

Zika needs to be controlled but how?

With 131 cases of Zika infections being reported in Rajasthan, the country is up in arms against the disease but has no reliable way of dealing …

South-East Asian nations commit to making medicines accessible to all

A ‘Delhi Declaration’ was signed by 11 countries of the region with an aim to make healthcare affordable and accessible to its 2 …

One Health: FAO, UNEP, WHO and WOAH launch research agenda for antimicrobial resistance

Interface addresses global health issues necessitating multisectoral, multidisciplinary response to AMR

That lonely feeling

WHO has recognised loneliness as a public health crisis and is trying to devise a way to measure the condition that affects a quarter of the …

Socials of the pandemic

For generations, and also in the immediate future, the COVID-19 pandemic will be remembered for this: how the world lived up to a global crisis?

Pushing antibiotic development agenda needs more support

Current investments are not enough, need to be supplemented

Antimicrobial resistance: Here’s what can be done to address environmental AMR in India

India is the world’s largest consumer of antibiotics in terms of total volume

Argentina’s mystery pneumonia outbreak finally identified as Legionellosis disease

At least 11 people have been infected and four have succumbed to the illness

Simply Put: Free with your baby powder

Kerala reports India’s first suspected death due to monkeypox

This takes the global death toll of the current monkeypox outbreak to nine

Tedros Ghebreyesus keeps his job at WHO helm

COVID-19 pandemic & children: Omicron unlikely to increase threat in children

Hasty vaccination of healthy young people will have little benefit 

Vaccination for pregnant women in India

Simply put: Happy Pujas

COVID-19: Testing criteria for private labs opened up

Price cap of Rs 5,000 fixed for pvt labs to conduct virus investigation

28 people tested positive in India for COVID-19: Harsh Vardhan

16 out of them Italian nationals, says Union health minister

Coronavirus: Chinese media reports drop in new cases, WHO dismisses any trend

Wuhan hospital director dies due to COVID-19 infection

Simply Put: Guidelines to counter epidemic

India, 163 nations off track to meet tobacco reduction targets

Smokeless tobacco affecting adolescents more in the South-East Asia region

‘Online nutrition tracker to promptly plug service gaps’

Down To Earth talks to the project lead of Nutrition Surveillance System

More adults than ever have been seeking ADHD medications — an ADHD expert explains what could be driving the trend

Amid the growing online community of newly self-diagnosed people with ADHD, many probably did not actually have the condition

State of Health: In nearly 14% hospitalisations in rural India, households pushed into debt to pay bills

While the government's share in India's total health expenditure is rising every year, out-of-pocket health spending remains the largest …

ADHD: Inattention and hyperactivity have been the focus of research — but emotional problems may be the missing link

Many mental health conditions may be linked to a unified, genetically determined problem of “synaptic pruning”

Long COVID: Female sex, older age and existing health problems increase risk, say new research

Symptoms can include fatigue, breathlessness, difficulty concentrating and many more – but the precise nature of the symptoms is not well …