Learnings from Ebola epidemic Excerpts from MSF’s Ebola-related research, highlighting the various operational challenges during the epidemic and MSF’s measures…
Asia Pacific countries vow to tackle antimicrobial resistance together Health ministers from 12 countries of the region agreed to improve the way information on antimicrobial resistance is collected…
Antibiotics likely to cause increased risk of sudden cardiac death IMA advices doctors to prescribe antibiotics to heart patients with caution
2016-17: A year for healthcare? As the number of confirmed cases of Zika virus infection crossed the 20,000 mark in Columbia, the World Health Organization (WHO),…
Major societal changes required as number of people over 60 years set to double by 2050: WHO Contrary to widespread assumptions, the report finds that there is very little evidence that the added years of life are being…
WHO calls for strengthening malaria elimination strategy, says 3.2 billion people still at risk Of the 18.9 million P vivax malaria cases reported in 2012, nearly 13 million were from countries in the WHO South-East Asia…
Youth urge policy makers to set date for 85 per cent pictorial health warnings on tobacco products Highlights that large warnings will prevent youth from experimenting with tobacco products
Safe babies for HIV-infected mothers Motherhood is a feeling every woman wants to experience. HIV-infected women are no exceptions. Like normal expecting mothers, they…