Flaws in nutritional scheme for TB patients show challenges in feeding the hungry in Covid-19 times

The Nikshay Poshan Yojana scheme is well-intentioned but remains poorly conceptualised and executed.

Diptendu Bhattacharya

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Vashita Madan

· Sep 11, 2020 · 07:30 am

How the Aam Aadmi Party’s Mohalla Clinics changed public healthcare in Delhi

Ahead of Delhi elections on February 8, a look at the hits and misses of the AAP government’s pet project.

Sadhika Tiwari, HealthCheck.in

· Feb 07, 2020 · 08:30 pm

In India, 47% of poorest children and 30% of richest children are not immunised

Factors such as household wealth and parents’ literacy affect vaccine coverage.

Pankti Antani, HealthCheck.in

· Sep 23, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Beware the vape: E-cigarettes pose an urgent threat to public health

Vaping devices were designed as a clean way of delivering nicotine, to help people stop smoking tobacco.

Elliott M Reichardt, The Conversation

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Juliet R Guichon, The Conversation

· Mar 18, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Rajasthan is trying to fix staff shortages at health facilities – but that’s creating other problems

The state has privatised the management of some its primary health centres. But the low wages have prompted many qualified staff to quit.

Menaka Rao

· Nov 07, 2017 · 02:30 pm

One year on, states have not complied with the Supreme Court’s sterilisation surgery guidelines

States and union territories have failed to provide details of death audit reports and status of claims made under their sterilisation programmes.

Navneet Wadkar

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Mohit Gandhi

· Aug 25, 2017 · 02:30 pm

Over 18,700 dengue cases reported this year, Kerala tops the list

Tamil Nadu assumed the second spot with 4,174 dengue cases reported so far this year.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 05, 2017 · 03:12 pm

What India can learn from China on tackling mental health

China runs the largest publicly-funded mental health programme in the world.

Nayantara Narayanan

· May 19, 2016 · 05:30 pm

Golden Tobacco Ltd begins implementing 85% pictorial warning rule on its cigarette packs

Packets of two of the company's several several brands – Panama and Golden Gold Flake – bearing April 2016 as the manufacture date will carry larger images.

Scroll Staff

· Apr 13, 2016 · 08:45 am

Are the UK government’s new alcohol guidelines an assault on freedom? Just ask John Stuart Mill

The Victorian reformer was something of an expert on the "nanny state".

Ben Saunders, The Conversation

· Jan 17, 2016 · 11:30 pm

Three diseases India should worry about more than Ebola

Leptospirosis and other conditions pose a greater threat to the subcontinent.

Udit Thakur

· Sep 30, 2014 · 12:30 pm