In 5 Years, Threat Of Drug-Resistant Superbugs Doubles
A 72-year-old woman in Bengaluru consulted a hospital physician about a severe skin infection and fever. She had...
How India Cut Neonatal Tetanus Mortality By 99.76%
In 2012, a 12-day-old boy (we will call him “Baby Boy”) in Assam's Sivasagar district could not be given his feed...
Your Poisoned Food, Our Unending Greed
A child lying in a Patna hospital in July 2013 after eating contaminated food at her school. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi ...
India’s Speedy--And Ominous--Disease Transition
A cancer patient getting treatment in a hospital in Kolkata. An Indian today has over twice the odds of dying...
How Cancer Has India In Its Grip
Amit Vaidya is lucky to have survived cancer twice. Cancer killed 0.7 million Indians in 2012, up from 0.26 million in...
Stealthily, Smoke Kills 1 in 8 Indians
Breathing doesn’t come easy to Asgar Ali Siddique, 45, a Mumbai resident, especially if he walks fast or climbs...
Six Cities Corner 27% Of India’s Health-Insurance Payouts
Recent news has it that the government is considering introducing two universal health-insurance policies—offering Rs...
How Ignorance Cuts India's Healthy Life By Half
In 2013, Indian men could expect to live to 64.2 years, 6.9 years longer than in 1990, according to the Global Burden of...
