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#HealthForPolls: CPI(M)’s vision for health

Elections are less than a month away. So far, the campaign has been fought on the high-pitched war of words over the BJP’s nationalism warcry and the Congress Party’s self-professed ‘surgical strike on poverty’, with a minimum income scheme for farmers’ poll ploy. Amidst all this, Health Issues India is campaigning for healthcare. With an …

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India fails 83 percent of its cancer patients on treatment

In 2018, cancer killed 784,821 Indians. An estimated 2.25 million Indians are believed to be living with the disease. More than 1.15 million new cases were registered last year alone. These are worrisome figures for Indian policymakers and re-emphasise the rising burden of non-communicable diseases in India. But more worrisome are conclusions from a study …

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Ayushman Bharat forcing hospitals to cut costs?

Ayushman Bharat is nothing if not ambitious. As the world’s largest healthcare scheme it aims to provide health insurance coverage to around 500 million Indians — a number larger than the population of all countries besides India and China. However, the limit of reimbursement amounts from the insurance cover have even India’s cheapest hospital worried. …

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A father’s fifteen-year fight for a drug for his daughter

After fifteen years, a father has won a legal battle over medical expenses he paid to treat his daughter’s genetic condition. The Gujarat High Court has ruled in favour of Harshadkumar Pandya, an assistant teacher in Rajpipla, whose daughter was born with Silver-Russell syndrome, a form of dwarfism. Fifteen years back, on the advice of …

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How air pollution ruins child health

Poisonous air is causing toxic damage to people across the world. Nine out of ten of us breathe polluted air. Now for the first time, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report has highlighted its damaging impact on child health and survival. Over 93 percent of the world’s 1.8 billion children are exposed to toxic air …

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Why your desk job is a risk to your health

A new study has established a relationship between body mass index (BMI) and the kind of sector of work among urban Indians. The research, published in the journal Economics and Human Biology, suggests a positive correlation between a high BMI – an indicator of obesity – and labour market activity. Put simply, the study could …

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Fibromyalgia: How to identify an invisible illness

India has a bad track record dealing with “invisible illnesses”. Those who suffer from mental health issues are still stigmatised and in more cases than not, cannot receive the healthcare they vitally need due to a lack of available mental health services. This situation is not only true for mental illness. While physical disabilities are …

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World TB Day: Will India show leadership in the fight against TB?

“It was something that I had never expected, I was really shocked,” Nandita Venkatesan said as she recalled finding out she had become re-infected with tuberculosis (TB) in 2013. It was six years after she was first diagnosed with the disease in 2007, some months before her eighteenth birthday. In a candid conversation profiled in …

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Economic explanations for obesity

Economic growth coincides with decreased rates of stunting and wasting – but may also bring with it increased rates of obesity. This is according to a recent study published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology which analyses how the burden of malnutrition changes as countries undergo economic development.   The study analysed these findings in …

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How Mumbai fares in the fight against TB

Drug resistance is one of the most pressing public health challenges facing India, especially when it comes to tuberculosis (TB). As the country grapples with one of the largest TB burdens in the world, rising cases of drug resistance presents an alarming trend. TB cases which become resistant to the most effective front-line drugs are …

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