public health
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Privatising district hospitals: Health ministry, states, experts had little say in Niti Aayog plan
Menaka Rao
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Readers’ comments: Will Gorakhpur deaths make authorities wake up and fix the public health sector?
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A new Indian Medical Service needs doctors as administrators of public health
T Sundararaman
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16 people died in three weeks in a remote Andhra village – and the government still doesn’t know why
Menaka Rao
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Niti Aayog and health ministry prepare model contract for privatising urban health care
Nitin Sethi Menaka Rao
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Fixing what isn’t broken: Why is Udupi’s well-run district hospital getting new private management?
Menaka Rao
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Tamil Nadu makes vaccinations mandatory for school students, but parents still have safety concerns
Vinita Govindarajan
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In Karnataka, revamp of medical regulations in the name of citizens is only hurting their interests
Vijayakumar Seethappa Akhila Vasan Vinay Sreenivasa E Premdas Pinto
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WHO spends more on travel for its executives than many of its public health programmes: AP
Scroll Staff
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In Assam, text messages are saving the lives of new mothers
Sarita Santoshini, IndiaSpend
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In numbers: Maharashtra’s under-funded health services keep its junior doctors in the line of fire
Abhay Shukla
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A new bill on public health emergencies allows for dubious restrictions of citizens’ liberties
Menaka Rao
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Why are more men diagnosed with cancer than women worldwide?
Yavuz Anacak, The Conversation
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When a pregnant woman travelled on bikes, boats and vans – but still couldn't save her baby
Priyanka Kotamraju Pavithra Chandrasekar Anshu Lalit
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Studying Africa's diverse gene pool could be the key to battling its disease burden
Michèle Ramsay, The Conversation
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There was a time when ‘energy’ drinks actually contained radioactive energy
Timothy J. Jorgensen, The Conversation
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Deep in the Amazon jungle, Brazil’s ‘invisible cities’ are in crisis
Luke Parry, André de Moraes, Jesem Douglas Yamall Orellana and Patricia Torres, The Conversation
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Did Mumbai blood banks supply HIV-infected blood – or are people misreporting cause of transmission?
Scroll Staff
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From New Delhi to New York, millions rely on cheap anti-pollution masks. Should they?
Richard E. Peltier, The Conversation
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GMOs lead the fight against Zika, Ebola and the next unknown pandemic
Jeff Bessen, The Conversation