Corruption 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,...

For four years, Holiya village in Kushinagar district, Uttar Pradesh, did not witness a single case of encephalitis, a remarkable achievement for a...

It is nearly a year since Uttarakhand witnessed one of the worst natural calamities in Indian history due to sudden cloudbursts and flash floods. On...

Thirty-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...

This defies logic. Despite rapid economic growth, India has often been placed below sub-Saharan African countries that have very high number of...

Cutting common pollutants like soot or black carbon, will not only slow global warming but also save millions of lives, says a World Bank report...

Over 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 manufacturers’ associations in the country have written letters to the governments of Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, informing...

Last 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...

India is shouldering a huge burden of malnutrition – in the absence of government figures, a dipstick survey by non-profit HUNGaMA in 2012 suggests...

SABA and Farah, 17-year-old conjoined twins from Patna, can never be separated surgically. The reason: presence of just one kidney between their two...

A 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...