Over 80% Indians not covered under health insurance: NSSO survey

Most people finance hospitalisation by digging into savings and borrowing

Battered Lungs

Lung cancer is a result of the deadly cocktail of smoking, air pollution and poverty

Today's Plague

Some of the most common cancers in India are directly linked to poverty

Killer with a BIAS

There is overwhelming evidence that some of the common cancers target the poor

Environmental injustice

The poorest people in urban India live in foul environs. Research from across the world shows that the poor stand greater risks of several cancers.…

Silenced to death

The media and the government keep mum on pollution-cancer linkages and the abysmal medical help available in India against the menace

Better access, stewardship practices by pharma companies needed for promising new antibiotics: ATMF report

Large pharmaceutical companies need to re-enter the antibiotic development space, make their unique expertise on access & commercialisation …

Due recognition

The mind's decay

A new study throws light on many hidden corners of the rapidly degenerating mind

Tackling tumours

Shark tissues show the promise of preventing tumours from regenerating

Flab control

Genes have a fair share in determining a person's predisposition to obesity

The grape cure

South Africa

Life blood

Is donating blood beneficialfor your heart?

Simply put: No doctors in 70% PHCs in Bihar

Lighting up tumours

New chemical compounds have made radiographic imaging for tumour detection cheaper

Herb to the rescue

DOCTORS RAPPED

Trial by fire

Polio nemesis dead

Device Spots potential back pain

AIDS researcher aquitted of misconduct charge

The nature of malaria

A new project is analysing several natural parameters that aid the spread of malaria

Breast milk is best milk

Anti-carcinogenic properties of breast milk come to light

Earful of noise

What is supposed to be a receptacle for sound, sometimes makes quite a racket itself