public health

A man lights a cigarette along a road in Mumbai, India, October 26, 2016. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/File Photo

Karnataka HC Order on Reducing Pictorial Warning Is a Step Backwards in the Fight Against Tobacco

Developing Countries Could Get Sick Before They Get Rich. Policy Can Help

On November 16, an article in the British Medical Journal Open concluded that severe public spending cuts in the UK were associated with 120,000 deaths between 2010 and 2017. Credit: Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy Poirrier/ Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0

Life Expectancy in Britain Has Fallen So Much That a Million Years of Life Could Disappear by 2058

An ambulance arrives as people stand at the entrance of the emergency department of a government-run hospital in New Delhi, November 22, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Saumya Khandelwal

Modi Government Cuts Planned Funding for National Health Mission By Almost 20%

The odd-even scheme was implemented twice in 2016.

Odd-Even Scheme Back in Delhi From November 13-17

A man sleeps in a room containing oxygen tanks in the Baba Raghav Das hospital in Gorakhpur. Credit: Reuters/Cathal McNaughton

Gorakhpur Incident Brings the Global Debate on Oxygen Delivery Challenges to India

New Rotavirus Vaccine Criticised for Increasing, Not Reducing, Diarrhoea