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India is home to highest number of drug-resistant TB patients

Chinese officials have downplay, say both patients are being as rules mandate

Warming catalyses antimicrobial resistance

New research warns of increased risk to heart and lungs from vaping

Local capacities critical to making a difference must be strengthened

More than a sixth of suicides in India in 2016 due to health reasons

Measles virus wipes out the body’s immunity

Preschool children who had taken 2 or more antibiotic courses for acute respiratory tract infections in the preceding year had around a 30% greater chance of not responding to subsequent treatment

The computer algorithm reduced the number of black patients by more than half, while gave more access to the whites for high-risk health care management

Nano-pharmaceuticals are expected to be of great use particularly in cancer treatment

Using General Snus instead of tobacco cigarettes can cut risk of mouth cancer, heart disease, lung cancer, stroke, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis, claims Swedish Match 

Scientists from sub-Saharan Africa writing research papers on health in their own countries are often not named first or senior author, finds a study

Leading gastroenterologist Samiran Nundyco-editor of Healers or Predators?: Healthcare Corruption in India, spoke to Down To Earth about the corruption in the medical proffession. The book is an anthology of 41 investigative essays by doctors, public health academics, researchers, activists, civil society members and a journalist. His two co-editors are former Union health secretary Kesav Desiraju and Sanjay Nagral, a surgeon

This knowledge may help in early detection by identifying the role of protective form of antioxidant 

The multinational corporation says it will conduct an investigation parallel to the one being conducted by US FDA

The highest rates of aflatoxin contamination were found in Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Kerala

The resolution was passed at a meeting of national parliaments in Belgrade, Serbia

The grouping of national parliaments passed a resolution to the effect in Belgrade, Serbia

Between 2015 and 2018, only 6.3 per cent TB cases showed a cumulative decline, against the 20 per cent target by END TB strategy: Global Tuberculosis Report 2019

Country also has most number of drug-resistant TBs

The cause of the neurological illness has not been identified but investigation is on

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A lookthrough of five factors and how the country's performance has changed 

Simply put: Hungry India

The rate increased to 20.8 per cent among children under five this year