Covid-19 has ushered in a new digital era and is rewiring the world’s perspective to genomic science and sensibilities to personal data privacy in public health...
The current situation demands quick identification of areas in clinical care that health workers with varied qualifications and experience would be able to perform with hands-on...
The way the second wave is lapping at us makes me wonder if we have faced this pandemic recently — a couple of weeks back. We’re...
As the post-Covid world pays special attention to healthcare and its outcomes, it is important to not overlook the social, political and economic determinants of health....
The pandemic has revealed the limits of our conventional models of growth. As natural ecosystems collapse due to human activity and zoonotic diseases become more frequent,...
The pandemic has laid bare the disparities between services by public and private health providers, which affect low and middle-income families the most. While the government...
The healthcare system in India, in its current state, fails to view patients as people and link medical problems with larger socio-economic issues. Moreover, the commodification...
A robust primary healthcare system can improve patient outcomes and reduce financial burden due to the high costs of emergency and tertiary/quaternary care. India seems to...
The death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who was allegedly on medicines for depression, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, has shaken us all. The...
As India’s growth forecast tumbled to a 30-year-low, economists are of the opinion that the economy must now be ‘managed alongside persistent infection risks’.