Fake drugs can make you ill or kill you even if you don’t take them. And they’re everywhere

The manufacture and distribution of medicines is a global industry, tainted by fake and substandard products.

Srinath Perur, Mosaic

· Nov 04, 2018 · 02:30 pm

The hype over vitamin D deficiency is causing toxic overdoses in people taking it as supplement

While vitamin D treatment still has a rare medical role in severe deficiency or those bed bound, the rest of us should avoid being ‘treated’ with this steroid.

Tim Spector, The Conversation

· Sep 09, 2018 · 03:45 pm

Indian health ministry’s ill-informed advice on depression draws protests from doctors

Doctors want a health ministry poster to be withdrawn.

Priyanka Vora

· Jun 27, 2018 · 07:49 pm

India and China are leading the dangerous global increase in antibiotic consumption

Total antibiotic consumption in low- and middle-income countries has increased by 114% over the 15 years.

Saleem Shaikh

· Apr 28, 2018 · 05:06 pm

Drug resistance threat: India is failing to curb sales of unapproved antibiotics

Many fixed dose combination drugs that have not been approved by the drug regulator are still available in the market.

Patricia McGettigan, Allyson Pollock, The Conversation

· Oct 14, 2017 · 02:30 pm

Fixing what isn’t broken: Why is Udupi’s well-run district hospital getting new private management?

The Karnataka government decided to hand the hospital over to Abu Dhabi businessman BR Shetty but Udupi residents are opposing the move.

Menaka Rao

· Jun 13, 2017 · 02:30 pm

When bigotry invades mental healthcare: Women, sexual minorities are most vulnerable to harassment

From being slapped to being shamed, members of marginal communities have few places to seek help for mental illnesses.

Prateek Sharma

· Nov 01, 2016 · 02:30 pm

Why is Karnataka handing over a public hospital in Udupi to a UAE company for the next 60 years?

Public-private partnerships have failed to deliver healthcare in Karnataka over and again. What explains the state government's decision?

Akhila Vasan

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Vijayakumar Seethappa

· Sep 13, 2016 · 05:45 am

India is discarding needles but reusing syringes – and this is spreading disease

Both HIV and hepatitis spread through the use of unsafe injections.

Priyanka Vora

· Aug 21, 2016 · 02:30 pm

Is the corporate hospital killing small hospitals and exploiting patients?

You’ve heard the stories many times. Now two doctors confirm them in a new book.

Arun Gadre and Abhay Shukla

· Apr 13, 2016 · 08:30 am

Amid public feuds, a venerated medical journal finds itself under attack

A widely derided editorial, a controversial series of articles and delayed corrections prompted critics to question the direction of the New England Journal.

Charles Ornstein, ProPublica

· Apr 06, 2016 · 07:30 am

US TV host Bill Maher promotes HIV quackery in an interview with Charlie Sheen’s “doctor”

Dr Samir Chachoua claims to have found a cure for AIDS in arthritic goats' milk

Nayantara Narayanan

· Feb 06, 2016 · 10:22 am