Category: Top Story
Aid group describes healthcare disaster in Syria
BEIRUT Newborns freezing to death in hospital incubators, doctors cutting off limbs to stop patients from bleeding to death, surging cases of polio: a new report published on Monday paints a dire picture of Syria’s collapsing healthcare system. The report, […]
Why China’s doctors are getting beat up
Being a doctor or frontline medical professional China has officially become a nightmare. The young doctor weeps as he is pulled before the crowd. The night before, he treated a patient for excessive alcohol consumption. That patient later died. And […]
Indonesia’s economy held back by neglected tropical diseases
The control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is one of the most cost-effective ways Indonesia can sustain economic growth and reduce inequality, said scientists today in an analysis published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. While Indonesia is poised […]
Iran is becoming a prime destination for Muslim medical tourists
Despite near demonisation in parts of the US and Israeli media, Iran is a peaceful country that is successfully attracting local medical tourists away from rivals with political and civil strife, and away from countries that have a tendency to […]
Drug-resistant malaria gaining ground in SE Asia
Efforts are being scaled up to stem a further spread of drug-resistant malaria in Southeast Asia. “The emergence of resistance… threatens worldwide malaria control and treatment since there is no alternative to this drug if its efficacy decreases further and […]
Can technology fix a broken healthcare system?
There is no question that the Indian healthcare system is broken. This is why there is so much buzz in trying to find solutions to heal the sick healthcare system. I enjoyed attending the Health 2.0 conference held recently in […]
Southeast Asia a hotspot for emerging diseases
Southeast Asia is a “hotspot” for emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) because several major outbreaks have started in this region, warn experts. Now, with unprecedented levels of connection between animals and people through urbanization, and of people with other people through […]
Private – public partnership model doesn’t fit hospitals
A lot of private run hospitals have been set up since the day the government began calling for the investments from different sources in the healthcare sector. But a lot of them have been running at a moderate level because […]
Bad health the cost of China’s rapid growth
When Guo Baochai first joined a cancer support group after being diagnosed with lung cancer in 2005, most of his fellow patients who practised qigong twice a week at Beijing’s Tuanjiehu Park were in their 50s and older. Now, younger […]
Without controlling TB in India, global tuberculosis control is unttainable
Global tuberculosis control is unattainable without controlling the incidence of the disease in India, said President Pranab Mukherjee today Inaugurating the National Conference on TB and Allied Diseases (NATCON) at Rashtrapati Bhavan Auditorium here, Mukherjee said: “Nearly 20 years after […]
