public health
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Mpox health emergency: Lessons from Covid-19 should be implemented before the next crisis
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All salt and sugar brands in India contain microplastics: Report
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53 cases, 19 deaths due to Chandipura virus reported in 2024, says Union health minister
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How a 4-year-old child in Bengal became India’s second case of bird flu among humans
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West Bengal has no case of bird flu, team constituted to monitor situation, says official
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India’s second ever case of bird flu detected in March: World Health Organization
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How tobacco companies use old tricks to draw younger users to smoking
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Covid showed that India’s healthcare system was frail – yet it was not on the agenda this election
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Australia reports first human case of bird flu in child who contracted it in India
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Supreme Court reserves verdict in Patanjali misleading advertisements case
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Carbolic Smoke Balls and snake oil: Patanjali joins a long history of dubious medicinal advertising
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Patanjali case: Influencers, celebrities also liable for endorsing products in false ads, says SC
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Patanjali case: Centre defends request to allow Ayurveda companies to publish ads without approval
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Nigeria rolls out meningitis vaccine that protects against five strains
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As more youngsters take to vaping, they risk lung and brain damage and even cancer
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Not concerned just about Patanjali, but about all firms deceiving customers, says Supreme Court
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Does India need a typhoid vaccine?
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‘Where will the poor go?’: Madhya Pradesh is trying to privatise government hospitals – again
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Increase health spending, improve drug regulation: Indian Medical Association to political parties
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Maharashtra proves race to build new medical colleges is no fix for Indian healthcare
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Amid pneumonia outbreak in China, India states step up surveillance
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How governments and global aid agencies use TB as a political tool
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A woman lost her baby in Nanded. Why couldn’t a new medical college near her home save her child?
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Nanded hospital dean, doctor booked for deaths of woman and her newborn
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Shiv Sena MP booked for making Nanded hospital dean clean toilets
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Maharashtra: 31 patients die within two days in Nanded hospital
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Why diagnostic tests are not perfect – and that is okay
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Effective public-private partnerships could transform India’s post-pandemic healthcare system
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The UK has long relied upon NHS nurses from poorer countries – but challenges are growing
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Like Covid-19, research and innovation could help eliminate tuberculosis in India
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India has axed queries on disability from key survey – and there’s no easy way to fill the data gap
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Rajasthan doctors call off Right to Health Act protests after agreement with government
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The TB-free Award given to Karnataka and Jammu & Kashmir doesn’t mean the states are free of TB
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Monitor rise in influenza and Covid-19 cases, Centre tells states and Union Territories
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Centre tells states to ensure recording of data on heat-related illnesses, deaths
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The numbers don’t tell the real story: Centre’s ambitious telemedicine initiative is struggling
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Measles became a bigger ‘threat’ to the world while it was focused on Covid-19
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Consider administering additional measles vaccine dose in vulnerable areas, Centre tells states
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To tackle the challenge of antimicrobial resistance, India must look beyond just medical factors
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In Uttarakhand, the government is falling short in supporting tuberculosis patients
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How mass gatherings like the Kanwar Yatra cause episodic pollution
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Over 47% antibiotics used in India in 2019 were unapproved, says study
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What a fact check of Modi’s claims about improved health infrastructure reveals
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How true is the health minister’s claim that India’s doctor-population ratio exceeds WHO guidelines?
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Why monkeypox isn’t likely to develop into a pandemic as devastating as Covid-19
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Six charts that show the state of India’s health before it was hit by Covid-19
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Wasting children, anaemic women: National Family Health Survey data shows troubling reversals
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Modi launches Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, citizens to have health IDs
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Why India’s public health insurance doesn’t work very well – and how it can be fixed
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Guinea confirms West Africa’s first death due to Marburg virus disease
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Chhattisgarh’s health minister is opposing his government’s plan to give grants to private hospitals
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What was behind the mystery illness that struck Eluru in Andhra Pradesh
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Covid-19: Working with Britain’s NHS, I think Mumbai’s hospitals should borrow these ideas from UK
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A newly designed vaccine may eradicate polio once and for all
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Gujarat: Nine tested positive for Congo fever, alert issued in Rajasthan
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Encephalitis: SC issues notice to Centre, Bihar, UP on plea seeking urgent steps to control disease
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Bihar: Only 43% of doctors and 29% of nurses employed in government hospitals, state tells SC
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Assam: Japanese encephalitis claims 21 lives, says Union health ministry; 69 cases reported in total
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Bihar: Team of doctors probing children’s deaths blames administrative failure, ‘state’s apathy’
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Bihar: Centre says it is working on long-term plan to tackle acute encephalitis syndrome
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Bihar: Two men whose children died of encephalitis are among 19 booked for protesting against deaths
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Bihar encephalitis outbreak spreads to 20 districts but officials report decline in number of cases
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Bihar: Part of roof collapses in Muzaffarpur hospital battling encephalitis outbreak, no one injured
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Bihar encephalitis toll reaches 139 as three more children die, Opposition blames government
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Human rights panel issues notice to Centre, states over ‘deplorable’ public health infrastructure
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Encephalitis: Centre deploys eight advanced life support ambulances in Bihar
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Encephalitis: Bihar starts socio-economic survey of 450 parents of affected children, says report
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Bihar encephalitis outbreak: Toll rises to 127, Nitish Kumar faces protests at Muzaffarpur hospital
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Bihar encephalitis: Toll goes over 100, case filed against Union minister Harsh Vardhan
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Bihar encephalitis: Toll reaches 93, Union health minister faces protests in Muzaffarpur hospital
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Bihar encephalitis outbreak: Toll rises to 83, Union health minister reaches Muzaffarpur
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Bihar encephalitis outbreak: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan to visit state as toll climbs to 67
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Bihar encephalitis outbreak: Toll rises to 50 in Muzaffarpur district
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After 30 kids die in Bihar, health secretary says most suffered hypoglycemia, not encephalitis
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Nipah virus: Eight districts in Karnataka and seven in Tamil Nadu put on high alert
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Kerala: College student feared to have Nipah infection, says health minister
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Measles cases up by 300% so far in 2019, says WHO
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India’s environment ministry once again downplays the effects of air pollution on human health
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India may tackle its air pollution crisis only when the rich can no longer escape it
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Kerala government issues advisory ahead of Nipah transmission season
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India’s plan to tackle antibiotic resistance is toothless without a strong public health system
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Delhi Half Marathon’s use of radio waves to try to curb air pollution leaves experts sceptical
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Delhi Half Marathon’s use of radio waves to try to curb air pollution leaves experts sceptical
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Delhi: Toll due to diphtheria rises to 22, mayor says no shortage of antitoxin
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Delhi: Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon praises AAP’s mohalla clinic initiative
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How a team of Kerala doctors helped detect the presence of the deadly Nipah virus in record time
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How a team of Kerala doctors helped detect the presence of the deadly Nipah virus in record time
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Wherever you are, time is running out for treating gonorrhoea
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WHO releases first list of essential diagnostic tests to prevent incorrect diagnosis
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Kerala is attempting a comprehensive healthcare upgrade with its ambitious new health policy
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Jharkhand: Four children die after vaccination in Palamu district
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Failing to notify TB cases can land doctors in jail. But will this help India eliminate the disease?
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Sixty health organisations write to Narendra Modi, seek compulsory licences for tuberculosis drugs
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World Health Organization to review safety data of French drugmaker Sanofi Pasteur’s dengue vaccine
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AIIMS can stop charging patients for diagnostic procedures that cost less than Rs 500, says panel
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Rajasthan's ambitious health insurance scheme excludes many poor patients
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Studying Africa's diverse gene pool could be the key to battling its disease burden
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There was a time when ‘energy’ drinks actually contained radioactive energy
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AAP is playing #SpottheKachra in an effort to pin blame for Delhi's trash on BJP
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Delhi health crisis: What were you doing for two months, green tribunal asks municipal bodies