India

 Grim reminder

A fleeting reappearance of plague exposes India's lack of preparedness

Publication Date: 
14/03/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Health Effects, Health Care, Health Education, Medical Research, Diagnostic Methods, Infectious Diseases, Plague, NGO, Africa, Asia, South America, India, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), West Bengal
India

 Curative resolve

A dose of political will, backed by communication skills, can help combat infectious diseases

Publication Date: 
27/02/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Health Effects, Malaria, Health Care, Medical Research, Infectious Diseases, Tuberculosis, AIDS, Finance, Poverty, Private Sector, WHO, NGO, Africa, China, India, Global, Globalisation
India

 INDIA

• The Supreme Court recently slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 on the Union

Publication Date: 
27/02/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Pollution, Groundwater, Tribals, Health Care, Medicinal Plants, Fluorosis, AIDS, Hazardous Products, Legislation, Supreme Court, NGO, India, Goa, Orissa (Odisha), Rajasthan, Sikkim
India

 A dinosaur mindset

The slow and steady route is not an option for us, that is, if we are serious about clean air

Publication Date: 
14/02/2002
Sunita Narain
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Air Pollution, Air Pollution Control, Vehicular Pollution, Health Effects, CNG, Petrol, Emissions Trading, Health Care, Technology, Legislation, Parliament, Government Of India (GOI), Politics, India
Water Resources

 Economics of healthcare

For just us $101 billion a year in medical research and treatments, 8,000,000 lives can be saved annually in the developing world. More

Publication Date: 
30/01/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Health Care, Medical Research, Finance, WHO, Developing Countries
India

 Breathing easy

A hundred medicines, a dozen therapies but no cure, that is the story of asthma treatment world wide. Complementary medicine fill the vacuum

Publication Date: 
14/01/2002
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Pollution Control, Air Pollution, Malnutrition, Asthma, Respiratory Diseases, Children, Health Care, Medical Research, Child Health, Smoking, Genetic Resources, Africa, Mexico, New Zealand, India, Delhi
India

 Gasping millions

Asthma, the bane of modern life, stalks the young ones and the affluent. It will strike 32 million people in India by 2010. The silent strangler has a propensity to waylay its victims, striking with stealth. An analysis into what triggers the killer which

Publication Date: 
14/01/2002
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Pollution Control, Air Pollution, Malnutrition, Asthma, Respiratory Diseases, Children, Health Care, Medical Research, Child Health, Smoking, Genetic Resources, Africa, Mexico, New Zealand, India, Delhi
India

  Coma after death

Child victims of a frayed medical service and a government programme gone wrong raise a mute question

Publication Date: 
14/12/2001
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Infant mortality, Respiratory Diseases, Children, Health Care, Governance, India, Assam, Lucknow (D)
Air Pollution

 WTO and drugs

What has Doha done to help poor nations meet their drug needs?

Publication Date: 
29/11/2001
Down to Earth
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Trade, WTO, Health Care, Drugs, Patents, Governance, Developing Countries
Sanitation

 HEALTHY CHANGES

The Nepalese

Publication Date: 
14/09/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Health Care, Private Sector, Nepal

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