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Why Jay Bhattacharya, Next Director of National Institutes Of Health,...
It was April 2020, the era of Covid lockdowns when tests were limited and difficult to access, a positive test meant...
‘India Could See An Epidemic Of Lung Cancer From Air Pollution’
Noida/Gurugram: On November 19, as many as 22 of the 35 air quality monitoring stations in Delhi recorded an air quality...

How Ladakh Is Battling ‘Hidden Hunger’
Ladakh: Forty-year-old Angmo Norbu found that even her second visit in a month to Sonam Nurboo Memorial Hospital in Leh,...

Why UP’s Dengue Cases Have Been Rising
Lucknow: Transmission windows of dengue, a mosquito-borne viral illness, have been expanding due to changing climate,...

Goa’s 100% Molecular Testing Helps Early TB Detection
Goa: For more than two years now, Goa has been providing 100% upfront molecular testing for tuberculosis detection....

How Goa Is Fighting TB Among High-Risk Groups
Goa: Fifty-four-year old Suresh has been drinking alcohol since he was nine. He ran away from his house in Bengaluru and...

‘Drug & Vaccine Funding, Surveillance Critical To End Neglected Tropical Diseases’
Noida, Uttar Pradesh: On August 1, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare conducted a programme of mass drug...

How Shortage Of Mosquito Nets Is Affecting Odisha’s Fight Against Malaria
Malkangiri, Odisha: On a sweltering June morning, Sumit Sisa felt extremely cold. His head hurt, and he had spiked a...
