Month: February 2018

Representative image. Credit: Reuters/Mansi Thapliyal

Urgent Need for an International Declaration to End Cross-Border Surrogacy

Olinda Timms 03/02/2018

As one country responds with a ban on commercial...

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NITI Aayog Comes to the Rescue As Health Ministry Clueless on ‘World’s Largest Healthcare Programme’

Anoo Bhuyan 03/02/2018

How much will this scheme cost? What is the...

Bottles of insulin on a table. Credit: cogdog/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

India Faces a Public Health Crisis as Survey Finds High Rates of Diabetes, High BP

Aju Mathew 03/02/2018

The southern states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu had...

A government health worker collects blood sample from a patient at a dengue detention centre in Kolkata, India November 4, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri/File Photo

Healthcare Is a Serious State Responsibility and Should be Kept Insulated From Populism

Shah Alam Khan 03/02/2018

While the finance minister's announcement sounds good in theory,...

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Villagers in Odisha Are Making Water Safer With Simple Interventions

Rakhi Ghosh 03/02/2018

Water from ponds and tube wells has been made...

French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Donald Trump attend a joint news conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris

France to Trump: ‘No Paris Agreement, No Trade Agreement’

Karl Mathiesen, Climate Home News 02/02/2018

The French foreign minister said the US 'should know...

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The Kardashian Index and the Metamorphosis of the ‘Scientific Community’

Aneree Parekh 02/02/2018

The K-index compares the number of Twitter followers a...