Sri Lanka crisis cripples lauded healthcare system as critical drugs and supplies run out

Surgeries are being put off or prioritised and doctors are turning to inferior substitutes amid desperate calls for donations from abroad.

Darshan Dalal

· Apr 19, 2022 · 09:00 am

Next pandemic: Antimicrobial resistance causes more deaths than HIV/AIDS and malaria combined

A new paper shows that antimicrobial resistant infections contributed to 49.5 lakh deaths globally in 2019.

Jonathan Cox, The Conversation

· Jan 23, 2022 · 09:30 pm

Covid-19 has disrupted India’s routine health services – and that could have long-term consequences

There has been a fall in immunisations, maternal health interventions and treatments of conditions such as kidney failure and cancer.

Rukmini S, IndiaSpend.com

· Sep 01, 2020 · 07:30 pm

How rapid deforestation and urbanisation in Asia is aiding the spread of infectious diseases

About 60% of infectious diseases in humans come from animals.

Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation News

· Mar 17, 2020 · 09:30 pm

What revisiting Greek mythology tells us about leadership in the times of the plague

The plague didn’t stop the Trojan War or give the Athenians enough reasons to make peace.

Joel Christensen, The Conversation

· Mar 17, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Bengaluru civic body to evict street food vendors to curb spread of cholera, activists decry move

Several activists said the decision will target only poor people.

Scroll Staff

· Mar 11, 2020 · 03:33 pm

Keeping it clean: Why the family of a Delhi man who beat lung cancer won’t burst crackers on Diwali

Businessman Atul Kumar Jain lives in one of Delhi’s most polluted neighbourhoods. His kids don’t want to add to the contaminants that made their father sick.

Ishan Tankha

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Aruna Chandrasekhar

· Nov 07, 2018 · 09:00 am

Nine days after detecting Nipah, Kerala is yet to nail the carrier of the deadly virus

Fruit bats are the primary suspects but the animal husbandry department is struggling to collect enough samples for testing.

TA Ameerudheen

· May 29, 2018 · 01:48 pm

Nine days after detecting Nipah, Kerala is yet to nail the carrier of the deadly virus

Fruit bats are the primary suspects but the animal husbandry department is struggling to collect enough samples for testing.

TA Ameerudheen

· May 29, 2018 · 06:30 am

India 12th worst among 52 lower middle-income nations for newborns, says Unicef report

However, 1.2 lakh fewer children below the age of five died in the country in 2016.

Scroll Staff

· Feb 20, 2018 · 10:24 am

Doctors treating North Korean soldier who defected to the South find 11-inch worm in his stomach

Dozens of parasitic worms were found in the soldier’s digestive tract, highlighting the levels of malnutrition and poor hygiene in the isolated nation.

Scroll Staff

· Nov 18, 2017 · 10:28 am

Rajasthan: BJP Mandalgarh MLA Kirti Kumari dies of swine flu

She was 50 years old.

Scroll Staff

· Aug 28, 2017 · 10:07 am