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By Pavitra Mohan |
India ushers in World Tuberculosis day in 2022 on 24 March with mixed feelings. As the COVID pandemic (hopefully) wanes…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
As the pandemic recedes, some memories will not. One of the more terrible outcomes of Covid-19 was the isolation of…
By T Jacob John |
The nation should be alarmed at the slow manner in which the administration has responded to the snowballing nature of…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The repeal of the three farm bills is in the headlines. A little beneath the surface and reportedly all set for the…
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No one can allege that India’s health care system is all bad. It has worked some wonders. Two generations ago children…
By Ishan Chauhan |
Save those who have been termed ‘climate deniers,’ it is generally acknowledged that the climate crisis is a threat…
By Lekha Rattanani |
The official death count due to Covid-19 in India stood at over 400,000 around mid-July. It is widely understood and…
By T Jacob John, Dhanya Dharmapalan |
During the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic in India, we had not realised that pregnant women could have serious…
By GN Bajpai |
The Covid -19 pandemic has mercilessly pummelled the health system globally. The human toll exceeds many times the…
By Ajit Ranade |
Last October, India and South Africa proposed in the World Trade Organization that intellectual property rights of…
By Jagdish Rattanani, T Jacob John |
The world’s second largest market for vaccines is India. The world’s largest vaccine producer (the Pune-based Serum…
By Ajit Ranade |
Our daily infections are more than the cumulative total of the next eleven countries, including large countries like…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
COVID-19 is a terrible disease that is killing us but the disease that allows this disease to thrive and spread with…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This week, April 7, is World Health Day, and we can expect discussions to be largely focused on the second wave of the…