Tamil Nadu has been hailed as the “health destination of the country” by Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu. While the success of Tamil Nadu’s health system is in its own right an achievement to be applauded, does the announcement by the Vice President serve to highlight a concern that disparities in the Indian healthcare system …
A number of regions across India have been marked as high risk sites for the hepatitis E virus in a global study by scientists at EPFL, Switzerland. There are around twenty million HEV infections worldwide and roughly 50,000 deaths from the disease every year according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The EPFL have utilised …
“They often make their worst drugs — with the lowest-quality ingredients and the most manufacturing shortcuts — for the least regulated markets, including India,” writes investigative journalist Katherine Eban in her book Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Boom (also subtitled as Ranbaxy and the Dark Side of Indian Pharma), an exposé …
The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its lists of essential medicines and diagnostics in a bid to expand access to affordable treatments for individuals worldwide. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus asserted in a statement that “around the world, more than 150 countries use WHO’s Essential Medicines List to guide decisions about which medicines represent …
India’s medical tourism sector has been rising over the last few years, steadily becoming one of the country’s most prominent new industries. Forecasts by the Union Ministry of Tourism project a 200 percent growth for the sector by 2020. This would make the industry worth US$9 billion. This level of growth has been sustained the …
The UN General Assembly adopted an India-led resolution in 2014 declaring June 21 as ‘International Day of Yoga’. The purpose of the day is to recognise and promote that “Yoga provides a holistic approach to health and well-being”. At the G20 this year, Prime Minister Modi has continued to promote the practice, alongside other AYUSH …
Could prosthetic limbs of the future be mind-controlled? While sounding like a concept from a science fiction film, the technology is far closer than we may think. India has a long history of the development of prosthetic limbs. Most famous, perhaps, is the development of the Jaipur foot, a prosthetic leg attachment developed for below-the-knee …
In March this year, the Indian government announced a measure to curb pollution — banning the importation of waste plastic. This policy will come into force from August. The measure was suggested following similar policies being implemented in China in order to curb the amount of plastic waste imported from other nations, particularly those in …
New research confirms again what public health experts have long asserted: vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) is an effective tool in reducing the spread of cervical cancer. For India, the news is important. Given the high death toll of cervical cancer in the country, and stalled efforts to roll out HPV vaccination, the finding …
HPV vaccination saves lives. As we have been reminded again. Read More »
Could India become the world’s most populous country — overtaking China — within the decade? Statistics suggest this is likely. China and India are the world’s most populous and second most populous states respectively. They hold unique positions as the only nations on earth whose populations exceed that of a billion people. The two nations …
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