Month: January 2017

Although India depends on data from sample surveys for tracking health parameters, there is a need to improve civil registration and vital statistics systems. Credit: cdcglobal/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Why It’s a Challenge To Make Quick Sense of India’s Health Data

Oommen C. Kurian 11/01/2017

Even when several government departments and ministries collect data...

Smoking Will Kill Eight Million People Annually by 2030, Says WHO Study

Tom Miles 10/01/2017

Smoking costs $1 trillion to the global economy, will...

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Why is There Little Trust Across the Aisle on Issues of Climate Change?

Vasudevan Mukunth 10/01/2017

Making people anxious to ask honest questions, and robbing...

A gharial. Credit: Tarun Nair

Of Government, God and Gharial: The Ecological Pogrom in Chambal’s Badlands

Tarun Nair 10/01/2017

Dam-builders seldom keep their promises and the government has...

Studies Find Worrying Global Trends of Medicine Misuse And Underuse

Kate Kelland 09/01/2017

Experts who carried out the studies found that medicine...

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Do the Egyptian Fruit-Bat Vocalisations Show Signs of a Vocabulary?

Janaki Lenin 09/01/2017

This is the latest study in the growing field...

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Infinite in All Directions: New Math Magazine, Climatic Arrogance, Covenant of the Rainbow

Vasudevan Mukunth 09/01/2017

Infinite in All Directions is The Wire‘s science newsletter....