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 …

Milestone

Brainstorming

Brain tumours can be caused by a virus that affects many children

Brainy inheritance

Messy state(s)

Gendicine's hire

It is a gene therapy for cancer

In a hole

Dengue grips Bangalore

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

Down the nuclear trail

Incidence of Down's syndrome linked to fallout from nuclear weapons testing