Category: Top Story
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 […]
Beware: Pigeon feeding can be at your health’s cost!
New Delhi -The 1960s movie “Mary Poppins” immortalised it with “Feed the birds, tuppence a bag” but beware – what 42-year-old Balwant Singh and many do-gooders in the capital and elsewhere practice every morning – feeding pigeons grain – could […]
Do falling stock prices drive people crazy?
Falling stock prices lead to increased hospitalizations for mental disorders, according to the first large-scale study of stock market volatility and its effect on mental disorders. In their research, published in the journal Health Policy and Planning, the researchers assessed […]
Adoption scam hits hospitals, nursing homes in Karnataka
A scam of shocking proportions, which involves alleged sale of infants and ‘misuse’ of unwed or single mothers in various hospitals and nursing homes, has come to light in Karnataka. Sources in the government and registered adoption agencies revealed shocking […]
Asia’s bitter pill to swallow in hospital services
Plagued by cost overruns and a $4.2 billion deficit, Taiwan’s National Health Insurance set out in 2012 to find out what lay behind the problem. The results were a mixture of the expected and unexpected. Other cities, it turned out, […]
Medical tourism in Asia goes under the knife
Medical tourism in Asia is booming. People from both Asia and the West are being attracted to cities and ‘hubs’ of medical excellence in a number of countries, such as Malaysia, Thailand, India, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea. This tourism […]
