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From the PM's doctor to a hero

Dr K Srinath Reddy, president, Public Health Foundation of India and head of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's health panel, is unlikely to be seen on Page 3, a natural home to some doctors. Reddy,...

Will bring India's Covid mortality rate to below 1 pc: Vardhan

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday said the government was aiming to bring down India's Covid-19 mortality rate to less than 1 per cent from the current 1.64 per cent, which is still...

Air pollution killed over 3,000 Indians every day in 2017, says study

One in eight deaths in India last year was attributable to air pollution, which contributes to more disease burden than tobacco use, a study said on Thursday while asserting the highest exposure...

'The epidemic is receding in India'

'But we still have to be very careful.' IMAGE: A health worker administers a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to an Odisha policeman at the police commissionerate in Bhubaneswar, February 6, 2021....

Cigarette row: BJP tries to blow smoke

Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday dismissed Bharatiya Janata Party member of Parliament Dilip Gandhi's remarks that all studies linking cancer to tobacco have come from abroad and that...

Rajat Gupta steps down as PHFI chairperson

Former managing director of McKinsey & Co, Rajat Gupta, has stepped down as chairperson of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). Gupta's resignation comes days before the PHFI executive was...

Ayushman Bharat: An interesting health study across states in India

The dichotomy between richer and poorer states is largely in consonance with the diversity in state level disease burden in the country. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Patients from...