There is a need to improve disease surveillance, invest in climate-responsive systems
A global health agenda for G-20 Premium Story
Lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic must translate into the earnest affirmation of the need to protect global health as a…
Use of statins: Need healthy debate Premium Story
The US’s revised guidelines on statin-use should prompt us to think too, given we have a significantly large population vulnerable…
India’s life expectancy at birth has grown to 70.8 years, from 32 years in 1947. It is a remarkable achievement,…
The impact of climate-related food shortages could prove to be graver than that of the Covid-19 pandemic as it will…
Monkeypox yet another reminder of the perils of breaking natural barriers with viruses.
While vaccine mandates should not be imposed, people must be persuaded to get vaccinated by creating awareness about how the…
The newly created public health and health management cadres can strengthen the design, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of our health…
SARS CoV-2 has not yet attained the ‘endemicity’ profile of predictable stability in form or comforting constancy in causing only…
Removing the age cap for NEET aspirants makes medical education accessible to a wider talent pool. Some may even have…
California’s new strategy spells out key components of the response to Covid-19 as it moves towards endemicity.
The need to galvanise the slow-paced urban health mission and strengthen rural primary healthcare across the country calls for higher…
If the test result does not influence or improve the management, the test kits and the personnel required impose a…
The ongoing debate on boosters is influenced by science, situational change, sentiment, supplies, solidarity and salesmanship
Rich nations’ vaccine nationalism—the third (booster) dose proposals are one example—complicates the response to the pandemic
Need to probe safety and efficacy of mixing Covid shots that use different platforms, in the light of possible immunity…
Perhaps it is time for our scientists to test whether a mix of Covishield and Covaxin will increase the chances…
Both the UK and the double-mutant variants seem to be subdued by the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines, but the hardier…
