Jon Wakefield was disappointed. India’s health ministry had issued a statement decrying the methodology adopted by the World Health Organisation to estimate excess deaths worldwide during the C...

It is against this backdrop that, health experts say, the missing table assumes significance. The table, titled “Estimated events and level of registration”, has been published in every a...

Fair pay Sir — Folk art and craft are intricately linked to the history and culture of a region. However, they rarely get the respect they deserve. First, they are often kept out of the hallow...

The Union health ministry’s National Family Health Survey 2019-21 has suggested that India’s births-and-deaths recording system registered only 71 per cent of the country’s deaths ov...

Nearly one in five households in India practise open defecation, according to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2019-21 released by the health ministry on Thursday, more than two years after th...

Less than an hour after the WHO released its estimates, the health ministry issued a statement saying India “strongly objects to the use of mathematical models” to project excess mortality...

The World Health Organisation has released new guidelines for treating drug-resistant tuberculosis with an all-oral regimen, but patients’ rights advocates in India are concerned about implement...

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that citizens cannot be coerced into taking Covid vaccines since it violates the fundamental right to privacy, but said “reasonable” restrictions on indiv...

The Union health ministry has questioned each estimation exercise, saying the estimates have emerged from extrapolation, limited datasets and unproven assumptions. Jha, in communications sent to cent...

At the inauguration of the WHO centre for traditional medicine in Jamnagar, Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth and WHO director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus shared the stage with Modi. The BJP po...