Monkeypox is not yet a global health emergency, the World Health Organisation ruled on Saturday, although WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was deeply concerned about the outbrea...

The monkeypox virus responsible for outbreaks in multiple countries over the past two months shows an excessive number of genetic mutations, indicating “accelerated evolution” and possible...

A total of 780 laboratory-confirmed cases of monkeypox have been reported or identified since May 13 and as of June 2 from 27 countries across four WHO regions that are not endemic for the monkeypox v...

Asymmetries can be revealing. The Registrar-General of India’s report on medical certification of the causes of death in 2020 attributed 160,618 demises to Covid-19 even though India’s off...

The RGI’s Civil Registration System (CRS) 2020 report too shows nine per cent excess deaths during 2020 compared with the average of 2018 and 2019, Jha said. Jha and other experts say the Centr...

India’s current safe limit for the fine particulate matter called PM2.5, used to grade air quality, is not low enough to protect vulnerable people from illness and needs to be revised downwards,...

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...