It will be hard to find a more interesting story than the one of a poor artisan in the neglected north east corner of India turning towards natural richness for fulfilling his basic needs with relative ease. Dodhi Pathak is a denizen of Nalbari district of Assam in India and was born in a home [...]

More than drugs, it is counselling by a doctor or health worker that plays a key role in smoking cessation, says a study conducted in Kerala. The study, conducted in Palakkad district in the context of concern over tobacco caused diseases, found that doctor’s advice followed by health-workers counselling in Primary Health Centres (PHCs) could [...]

Indian doctors have reported the country’s first cases of “totally drug-resistant tuberculosis,” a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease. It’s not the first time highly resistant cases like this have been seen. Since 2003, patients have been documented in Italy and Iran. It has mostly been limited to impoverished areas, and [...]

If you opt for an Indian dental insurance plan, the costs incurred due to dental care would be paid for by the insurer. The Indian dental insurance sector is in its nascent stages and currently only a handful of dental insurance plans are available on a stand alone basis. A dental plan offers cover against [...]

Medical experts in India say rising incomes in the country are leading to expanding waistlines. Almost one in five Indian adults is now overweight, and officials are being urged to slim down. Police officers are being told to take regular exercise and some politicians are resorting to weight loss surgery.

People of Garhwa have reasons to be optimistic that their children will be free from crippling skeletal fluorosis, a common disease that leads to physical deformities and even a compression of the spinal cord. Reacting to the HT report on this last month, union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh had written to Jharkhand chief minister [...]

Anshika Shivnath Yadav (20), a dental student of the Maratha Mandal Dental College here, committed suicide by hanging herself at the ladies’ hostel on Saturday night. She had failed in the annual examination held in June. Anshika hails from Laxmi Nagar in New Delhi. Her father, Shivnath, is a personal assistant to Vayalar Ravi, Minister [...]