NITI Aayog health index: Kerala maintains top spot
The worst-performing state in overall performance was Uttar Pradesh; Bihar, Madhya Pradesh performed marginally better
Coronavirus update: Has India got its first COVID-19 reinfection case
Doctors at Ahmedabad private hospital claim 54-year-old woman has retested positive for COVID-19
Deadly target
Health experts blame Centre's over-emphasis on women's sterilisation for the Chhattisgarh tragedy
A simple yet rare solution
Iron deficiency in newborns can be checked if doctors wait for two minutes before cutting the umbilical cord
New formula proposed for compensating victims of drug trials
For the purpose of monetary compensation, injuries and adverse effect of clinical drug trials will be classified into four types
Chikungunya kills three in Delhi
Municipal authority claims four deaths due to dengue, but the number may be higher
Policy draft backs new vaccines
Health experts say new vaccines not essential enough to be in the national programme
Debate rages on HIB vaccine
Are compulsory rural postings for medical students needed to revamp health centres?
Tough nut to crack
Cancer, who cares!
Warnings, pictures showing ill effects of tobacco on packets have not worked
New ruse in Big Pharma's old game
Drug multinationals are lobbying for a devious patent linkage system to block the entry of competitive generics
Rags to pads
Self-help groups making low-cost sanitary napkins are ready to supply them to rural India
Trial and error
Recent notifications offer no security to clinical trial participants
No two-finger test for rape
Health ministry does away with the controversial test; medicos demand use of rape kit
Shifting care
Proposed national health policy favours private sector, reluctant to increase public health expenditure
SC slams health ministry for unchecked clinical trials
Says trials of all new drugs must be supervised by health secretary
H1N1 caught India sleeping
India in talks with Russia on ‘unverified’ COVID-19 vaccine
Indian serostudies do not talk about neutralising antibodies, says ICMR DG
Govt neither denies nor accepts adverse event in Serum Institute COVID-19 vaccine trial
Health secretary claims all procedures followed but refuses to divulge details
Kerala's Pathanamthitta district has highest number of diabetics
All men and women above 30 to be screened for diabetes in 100 districts by March 2021
Lungs, beware
Switching to ozone-friendly inhalers is not going to be easy
Short on paramedics
Hospitals employ untrained staff due to acute shortage of qualified paramedics in the country
‘South-East Asia must remain polio-free after certification’
Poonam Khetrapal Singh became the first woman to assume the office of WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia on February 1, 2014. Her priority …
Pentavalent takes its toll
The vaccine is suspected to have killed at least 13 infants. Experts want data analysed