Almost 1.3 million Indian children under-five years of age die any year to due to preventable diseases. Pneumonia and Diarrhoea alone claims over 3 lakh lives any year. On World Immunization Week (April 24th-30th), Dr. Manoj K Das, one of India’s heading child health expert, talks about preventable diseases in India and several ways of

India may be grossly under reporting dengue cases. A study published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene on Tuesday has found that in the period 2006-12 there were an average of nearly six million cases annually — 282 times the annual average of 20,474 cases reported by the Ministry of Health. According to the

Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has announced inclusion of autism in the list of diseases to be covered under the Rahstriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram It was not until Hindi films like Barfee , My Name is Khan , and Main Aisa Hi Hoon hit the screens that many people knew about autism, a developmental

As doctors and public health professionals, we are often transfixed by a compelling question: Why are public health debates limited to just doctors and those with abbreviations like MBBS, MD, MS or MPH? Does the ambit of health not extend to other areas of specialisation? Georges Clemenceau, the former prime minister of France, once famously