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The Indian express over the weekend ran an article which stated that there was only one government hospital bed available for 879 people. The ratio of which is ten times worse in states like Bihar. To read the article please click here.

  A very interesting and well written article by Shailey Hingorani and Allison Hutchings in the Wall Stree Journal talks about India’s alarming malnutrition problem and how the National Food Security Bill has failed in some ways to solve this. They highlight some key issues with the Bill. According to the article, India’s Food Minister …

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Swati Piramal is the vice chairperson of Piramal Enterprises and director of Piramal Healthcare. She’s also a member of the Planning Commission and has influenced public policies in health care. There is an interesting article by her in the Forbes today, in which she highly encourages innovation in low cost health care. According to her, …

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What’s not in doubt is that India’s public sector is facing a shortage of condoms. As the Hindustan Times reported on the 7th of August, this shortage is so severe that it reached the Union Cabinet. In the run-up to 2014 general elections and at the start of a crucial parliamentary session, India’s most senior …

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Kerala has been India’s role-model state for health care development with basic health indicators matching many developed countries. But as reported in the Economic Times,according to a study it has run into a peculiar problem: a shortage of doctors. The state has the lowest doctor density in the country with some of its cities having …

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Researchers from Cambridge have discovered a molecular “switch” that can turn off a highly virulent cancer of the ovary and the testis. As reported in this Times of India article,  scientists found that all malignant germ cell tumours, like the type which typically occurs in the testes and ovaries, contain large amounts of a protein …

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The Open Magazine seven days ago published an article which spoke about the delays of the implementation of the Direct Benefit Transfer(DBT) scheme in Uttar Pradesh. The article states that  while on paper the scheme is good on the ground the transition has not been smooth. To read the article please click here.

In an email interview with The Hindu today, Professor T Jacob John says he sees progress in India’s struggle to maintain its polio-free status. For years, he says, Government followed the advice of the WHO “blindly” using oral polio vaccines despite evidence that they were not very effective in India. Finally, he thinks, the country …

“We are fighting a war against polio without a general,” says India’s leading expert Read More »