The rift valley

With no income options, Ghangharia residents want forestland for hotels

Letters

Matter of life and death

How vulnerable are we to mental disorders?

Letters

They also serve

Though it controls 23.4 per cent of the country's land, the Indian Forest Service has little administrative clout. For long the stepchild of …

Johan von Schreeb on humanitarian aid

Johan Von Schreeb, a surgeon who has worked for the group Medicins Sans Frontieres, is a public health scholar with the Karolinska Institutet, …

Human hand inspires scientists

Engineers are trying to develop a mechanical hand that can handle objects with human sensitivity and prove to be a boon to scientists and doctors.

Slippery bacillus

Despite desperate combing operations, the plague bacillus is playing hide-and-seek with doctors

Irate doctors complain US reforms illegal

The American Medical Association contends that limiting prices or overall spending on health care is unconstitutional

Gandhian scheme provides rural health care

A seWhelp programme provides the poorest villagers in the area surrounding Mahoin Gandhi's Sevagrom ashrom with access to quality medical care.

Temperamental disease

Patients who are hypertensive inside a doctor's clinic are more likely to develop heart diseases

Light from an area of darkness

Strange but true. Health workers in Africa are successfully using antibiotics to slow down the spread of AIDS

Taken for a medical ride

Book>> The doctor is cheating you: A devastating expose of unethical malpractices in the medical field • by N C Asthana • …

Antibiotics, not antacids, to treat ulcers

Doctors and pharmaceutical companies have been slow to respond to growing evidence that peptic ulcers are better treated with antibiotics, rather …

Missionary women doctors in nineteenth century Delhi

Throughout the 1860s a frail young European woman with a medicine chest was a conspicuous presence at the women's ghats of the river Yamuna in …

A taste of dry death

As the Gujarat forest department persists in planting a weed that sucks dry all the water in its vicinity, the Little Rann of Kutch gets...

Drugs alone do not create health

Spending heavily on medicines does not necessarily result in better health, indicate recent studies.

Promoting the fight against medical malpractice

Several voluntary organisations have started taking up cases of medical negligence, even as the debate over the liability of doctors continues.

From miracle cures to holistic development

A doctor whose aim once was to treat poor patients, now helps Soliga tribals to assert their rights and choose their own way of development.

Access denied

Doctors are withholding HIV therapy from some patients fearing their irresponsibility could harm others

A mother's love

A childless woman's search for emotional fulfilment through planting and nurturing saplingsby Malini Shankar

Drug companies are buying doctors – for as little as a $16 meal

An important new study in the United States has found doctors who receive just one cheap meal from a drug company tend to prescribe a lot more of …

The Eklingapura experience

A joint forest management initiative succeeded at Eklingapura mainly because foresters were able to respond to the needs of the community.

Neglect robs Saurashtra park of greenery

A wilderness park nurtured carefully by a former maharaja of Bhavnagar looks decrepit today, with its resources plundered and its wildlife dwindling.