The decline of TB in the developed world began long before the discovery of TB drugs. This is an important lesson for India, says Kanchan Mukherjee […]
South Asia
Richard Smith: A cholera epidemic
Most doctors in high income countries have never seen a case of cholera, but if they were to spend a day in the hospital of the icddr,b (formerly known as the […]
Veena Rao: India’s National Nutrition Mission—a missed opportunity
India needs to bridge the population’s dietary and information deficit if it wants to end malnutrition […]
Free breast alteration surgery in India’s Tamil Nadu: Is there a case for public funding?
Prioritising cosmetic surgery is debatable given the many critical unmet health needs among women […]
Poonam Khetrapal Singh: The South East Asia region must succeed in tackling TB
Tackling tuberculosis in South East Asia will mean stepped up efforts globally, as well as from countries within the region […]
Manpreet Singh Khurmi and Muhammed Shaffi: The deaths of children in hospital in India
In August this year, the deaths of over 300 children were reported from the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College, a large tertiary care centre in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India—with […]
Kanchan Mukherjee: Bridging the gap between India’s researchers and policy makers on NCDs
Research institutes have an important role in addressing India’s NCD burden […]
Implementing best practice guidance for management of older people with hip fractures in India
Fragility hip fractures are likely to become a major public health challenge in the coming decades, as emerging economies with vast populations age. Half of the estimated 6.26 million hip […]
Banalata Sen and Manu Gupta: Responding to India’s climate paradox of drought or deluge
Nearly all Indian towns and cities exist in a paradox: they are water scarce in dry seasons, yet prone to severe flooding during monsoons. Earlier this summer, the entire area of […]
Richard Smith: Trying to make patient monitoring outside of intensive care widely used
Dinesh Seemakurty’s idea for a business came to him as he sat by his grandfather’s hospital bed in Kakinada, India. His grandfather had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and had been […]