health
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Describing food products as ‘fresh’, ‘natural’ or ‘original’ in advertisements may be restricted
Scroll Staff
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From eating cotton balls to tape worms: A short history of dieting fads over the years
Melissa Wdowik, The Conversation
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How a timely alert helped Karachi cool a deadly heatwave threat
Nicky Nielsen, The Conversation Sughra Tunio, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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A disease in Dhanbad has left children without smiles
Nidhi Jamwal, IndiaSpend.com
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Smoke signal: Winter smog is a reminder India and Pakistan need to talk about more than geopolitics
Dawn.com
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The developing world suffers from many curable diseases. So, why aren’t we curing them?
Katherine J. Wu, The Conversation
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Doctors’ biases influence how healthcare is rationed out to patients
Philip Rosoff
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Video: Could increasing beer prices in Maharashtra hurt public health?
Shone Satheesh Joel George
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Four charts that show how climate change is hurting India’s health
Nayantara Narayanan
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Gauhati High Court sets aside Assam government’s anti-tobacco law
Scroll Staff
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Rise in dengue cases reported in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir
Scroll Staff
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Rise in dengue cases reported in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir
Scroll Staff
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The real reason so many underage Rohingya girls are getting married (and pregnant)
Abdul Aziz
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Watch: Kalki Koechlin (still) wants to know why women have to pay 12 percent GST on sanitary napkins
Scroll Staff
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‘You really need to act F.A.S.T.’: This ‘Y.M.C.A.’ parody is a manual on recognising a stroke
Scroll Staff
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Plague in Madagascar: 33 dead, 230 infected since August
Scroll Staff
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How medics in Andhra Pradesh are discreetly delivering HIV treatment to sex trafficked women
Anuradha Nagaraj
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Apart from its many other benefits, India’s Moringa plant can be used to treat chronic diseases too
Carrie Waterman, The Conversation
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This thriller portraying an outbreak of a mysterious disease is too close to reality for comfort
Menaka Rao
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India allows 16 new thermal power plants that violate stricter air pollution standards to come up
Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava