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Cure corruption in healthcare first
15 Aug 2014 1:57 AMCorruption in the healthcare sector is old news. So it comes as little surprise when a foreigner who has worked in the Indian medical system says,...
Prevention is cure
10 July 2014 9:29 PMFor four years, Holiya village in Kushinagar district, Uttar Pradesh, did not witness a single case of encephalitis, a remarkable achievement for a...
Forecasting failure
15 Jun 2014 7:28 PMIt is nearly a year since Uttarakhand witnessed one of the worst natural calamities in Indian history due to sudden cloudbursts and flash floods. On...
Muted response
22 Jan 2014 12:46 AMThirty-five-year-old James (name changed) from Meghalaya was shattered when he was diagnosed with Hepatitis C in 2009. He got another shock when he...
Who’s to blame?
19 Nov 2013 10:52 PMThis defies logic. Despite rapid economic growth, India has often been placed below sub-Saharan African countries that have very high number of...
Curb soot, methane emissions in Himalaya to slow global warming
11 Nov 2013 11:04 PMCutting common pollutants like soot or black carbon, will not only slow global warming but also save millions of lives, says a World Bank report...
A ban too bloody
2 Nov 2013 11:24 PMOver 30 per cent maternal deaths in the country happen due to the unavailability of blood in emergency cases. A high percentage of road accident...
Drug firms, retailers on warpath
24 Sept 2013 5:53 PMDRUG manufacturers’ associations in the country have written letters to the governments of Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, informing...
Other side of motherhood
21 Aug 2013 7:00 PMLast year, Mala gave birth to a baby boy at a clinic in Delhi. The child was taken away from her soon after birth for he belonged to a childless...
The malnutrition bazaar
19 July 2013 6:52 PMIndia is shouldering a huge burden of malnutrition – in the absence of government figures, a dipstick survey by non-profit HUNGaMA in 2012 suggests...
As good as real
8 July 2013 5:53 PMSABA and Farah, 17-year-old conjoined twins from Patna, can never be separated surgically. The reason: presence of just one kidney between their two...
Banking on mothers
24 Jun 2013 4:08 PMA crib placed right in front of Panna Dhai Hospital in Udaipur got a premature infant on May 16. The girl weighed 1.25 kg, not even half the weight of...