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......

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......

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,......

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......

Rajat Gupta must do right thing in India too

While the former managing director of McKinsey & Co, Rajat Gupta, has every right to claim that he is innocent until otherwise established in a court of law, he must adopt the same standards of......