Universal Health Coverage is the theme of this World Health Day
More than seven years have passed since the High Level Expert Group of the erstwhile Planning Commission outlined the way ahead on India's road to Universal Health Coverage...
One-off refunds do not make regulatory success. They are more signs of systemic failure
The Medanta refund to the family of the 7-year-old boy who died of dengue, at the behest of the health ministry sets a bad precedent at...
63% Indian cancer patients detected at stages III and IV when they are in a lot of pain; 2% have access to morphine
Oncologist and author, Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee has spoken out about how he ran from pillar to post...
When the Supreme Court delivered its landmark "living will" judgement earlier this month it too was acutely conscious of this reality
What started 45 years ago in 1973 with the rape of KEM Hospital nurse Aruna Shanbaug came to a...
That is why the recent notification making it a punishable offence not to report tuberculosis could be a game changerIndia has been engaged in TB control for the last 50 years. But Tuesday’s notification making it a penal offence...
Incidents of assaults against doctors happen regularly but fail to generate even a fraction of the present outrage
As the alleged assault on chief secretary Anshu Prakash threatens to catapult Delhi into a political crisis of sorts, one group of...
The home ministry sanctions against Public Health Foundation of India and the partial relief granted last month are perfect examples of how ministries work in silos
Nine months after it was debarred from accepting foreign funding for alleged transgressions, health...
Health cover plan is important but in the battle against non-communicable diseases, prevention may hold the key for India's huge rural population with scant access to tertiary careIn the noise over whether the National Health Protection Scheme is financially...
The Rs 2000 crore allocation for a Rs 5 lakh health cover for 10 crore people cannot possibly fool anyone. If this government puts its money where its mouth is, health may become one of the lasting legacies of...
Conditions set in National Medical Commission Bill to allow practitioners of Indian medicine prescribe modern medicines are in reality so stringent that it is virtually impossible that they will ever be met
The controversial bridge course for AYUSH doctors to...
