The government has capped prices of knee implants, but what about overall surgery costs?

The NPPA has found that hospitals and doctors sometimes promote more expensive new generation implants despite their limited benefits.

Priyanka Vora

· Yesterday · 03:30 pm

In photos: The children left shrunken and brain-damaged in Gorakhpur’s encephalitis ward

A doctor and medical photographer documented the plight of children in Gorakhpur with encephalitis in 2013. Little has changed in 2017.

Priyanka Vora

· Aug 18, 2017 · 02:30 pm

Parliamentary committee reopens the surrogacy debate, says commercial surrogacy should be allowed

The committee recommends a national database to track surrogates and compensation to surrogates fixed by government authorities.

Priyanka Vora

· Aug 17, 2017 · 02:30 pm

72 hours, more than 30 deaths later, oxygen supply to Gorakhpur hospital is still to be restored

Piped oxygen supply to the hospital was disrupted on the evening of August 10. The hospital has been scrambling to get in oxygen cylinders since then.

Menaka Rao

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Priyanka Vora

· Aug 13, 2017 · 06:30 am

Should medical marijuana be legalised in India? Palliative care doctors are divided

Doctors want the government to improve access to pain-relieving opioids first.

Priyanka Vora

· Aug 04, 2017 · 02:30 pm

A Maharashtra committee wants to restrict access to all abortions – even legal ones

The panel has suggested tracking pregnant women to prevent sex-selective abortions.

Priyanka Vora

· Jul 17, 2017 · 02:30 pm

A university project caught India’s fourth Zika case – not the government’s surveillance programme

The Manipal laboratory that detected the case tested 20,000 patient samples for Zika. Less than 1,000 came from the government’s surveillance programme.

Priyanka Vora

· Jul 13, 2017 · 02:30 pm

Interview: WHO’s revised norms are allowing the use of unsafe vaccines

Dr Jacob Puliyel is one of the two doctors to have challenged the revised the definition of an ‘Adverse Event Following Immunisation’.

Priyanka Vora

· Jul 11, 2017 · 02:30 pm

When newborns arrive, hospital maternity rooms turn into photo studios

With new parents willing to pay for professional photographs of their infant children, maternity hospitals are offering in-house photo shoots

Priyanka Vora

· Jul 08, 2017 · 02:30 pm

This map shows how severe India’s swine flu outbreak is this year

Maharashtra has such a high H1N1 death toll that health authorities are re-auditing reported deaths to check for actual causes.

Priyanka Vora

· Jul 07, 2017 · 02:30 pm

Patients pay a heavy price as India’s doctors continue with the corrupt ‘cut practice’

Many doctors are lured or scared into paying commissions to other doctors in return for having patients referred to them.

Priyanka Vora

· Jul 03, 2017 · 02:30 pm

The government promises free ultrasounds but pregnant women are still paying large sums for the test

The failure is due to a lack of ultrasound machines and doctors who can operate them.

Priyanka Vora

· Jun 28, 2017 · 03:46 pm