Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
The objective of this study is to estimate the number of premature deaths that can be attributable to cigarette and bidi manufactured and consumed over the last 100 years in India. Nearly 4.52 trillion cigarettes and 40.3 trillion bidis have been produced between 1910 and 2010, which are estimated to …
David Levy and colleagues use the SimSmoke model to estimate the effect of Brazils recent stronger tobacco control policies on smoking prevalence and associated premature mortality, and the effect that additional policies may have.
Restricting access to US death records could have serious consequences for long-term health studies. Government agencies should rethink their decision. (Editorial)
A Bill to provide access to mental health care and services for persons with mental illness and to protect, promote and fulfil the rights of persons with mental illness during delivery of mental health care and services and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
In Maharashtra, the Association of Hospitals and its member charitable hospitals are attempting to back out of providing free and subsidised beds to poor patients under the Bombay Public Trust Act Scheme which is a legally mandated service in return for subsidies. They are deliberately confusing this scheme with another …
Most states are attempting to copy the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation's model of centralised tendering and purchase of drugs. A study of the Kerala Medical Services Corporation and Odisha's State Drug Management Unit shows that imitating the original model without factoring in the local context and building up the …
Shifting polio eradication strategies may have generated fear and “resistance” to the eradication program in Aligarh, India during the summer of 2009. Participant observation and formal interviews with 107 people from May to August 2009 indicated that the intensified frequency of vaccination was correlated with patients' doubt in the efficacy …
Shifting polio eradication strategies may have generated fear and “resistance” to the eradication program in Aligarh, India during the summer of 2009. Participant observation and formal interviews with 107 people from May to August 2009 indicated that the intensified frequency of vaccination was correlated with patients' doubt in the efficacy …
The panel of ministers tasked with the mandate to finalise the country’s drug pricing policy is expected to decide the crucial policy as early as next week after the apex court slammed the government for sitting on it for almost a decade. Two government officials familiar with the development said …
The Supreme Court on Tuesday came down heavily on the Central government for delay in finalising a new drug-pricing policy which will determine prices at which pharma companies can sell essential medicines in the retail market. The apex court, while observing that the government might not find it appropriate if …
The Third People's Health Assembly was held in July in Cape Town, South Africa with its theme of "Health for All Now". Developing countries which transformed public health systems under the structural adjustment policies into insurance-based health models have failed in providing healthcare to the poor. Where does India stand …
With an aim to determine health impact of existing and new policies which have a bearing on health of population, a dedicated “health impact cell” for conducting analysis is in the anvil. According to the Planning Commission’s proposed document on health, the views of the cell will be taken into …
Data, transformed through aggregation and analysis into useful information, are key elements for decision making. This notion is true in general and has become a precept for promotion of health and control of disease. Tobacco use globally is the main preventable contributor to poor health and premature death.1 In The …
Many assume that further health improvements will be difficult for countries that have entered an era of chronic non-communicable diseases and life expectancies that are already above 70 years. If life expectancy is lower, it is possible to make gigantic strides given modest resources. (Correspondence)
The Indian Government is planning to launch a new urban health-care programme in its latest step towards universal health-care coverage in the country. Soumyadeep Bhaumik reports.
A recent ruling by Germany's Supreme Court has caused a public storm over the ethical conduct of doctors and drug companies in the country. Rob Hyde reports from Hamburg.
Data from different national and regional surveys show that hypertension is common in developing countries, particularly in urban areas, and that rates of awareness, treatment, and control are low. Several hypertension risk factors seem to be more common in developing countries than in developed regions. Findings from serial surveys show …
Despite the availability of effective interventions and public recognition of the severity of the problem, rabies continues to suffer neglect by programme planners in India and other low and middle income countries. We investigate whether this state of ‘policy impasse’ is due to, at least in part, the research community …
Technically feasible and cost-effective interventions exist to reduce maternal, newborn, and child mortality. This potential has not been fully realised due to the failure of health systems to improve the delivery and uptake of these priority interventions, particularly amongst the most vulnerable women and children. Underfunded investments in maternal, newborn, …
WHO and partners hope that they can fi nally rid the world of polio. But insurgency, Taliban-initiated boycotts, and a US$1 billion funding defi cit will not make it an easy task. Dara Mohammadi reports.
