K. Srinath Reddy

The writer is president, Public Health Foundation of India.

The health transition

Fri, Oct 12, 2018

Progress on non-communicable diseases should not be benchmarked against sustainable development goals.

Writing our own exit lines

Mon, Mar 19, 2018

Supreme Court’s endorsement to the validity of the living will was much needed

Health warning

Fri, Jan 12, 2018

National Medical Commission Bill needs to be tended to, and improved, not abandoned

States of healthcare

Wed, Nov 29, 2017

Data from Global Burden of Disease study will help states chart their individual trajectories. They need to strengthen disease monitoring systems

Beyond the lament

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

Gorakhpur was only the acute manifestation of the chronic malady that ails our health system

How to heal healthcare?

Sat, Jun 25, 2016

Arun Gadre and Abhay Shukla present a searing critique of various distortions that have converted medicine in to a cynically commercial activity.

A Friendly Force

Fri, Apr 08, 2016

Research on benign effects of bacteria on nutrition has policy implications.

The post-dengue prognosis

Tue, Sep 22, 2015

The steady state efficiency of healthcare needs to be raised so that crises like this one can be avoided.

The Doctor Won’t See You Now

Sat, Mar 21, 2015

It is the pathetic state of the public health system that hits you in the gut, as you read this book.

The primary focus

Fri, Dec 12, 2014

A national health assurance scheme could start with basic services.

Living with the microbiome

Mon, Aug 27, 2012

The discovery of trillions of bacteria in our bodies changes our sense of self

The doctor is out

Fri, Apr 27, 2012

The expectation that they should return is legitimate but it cannot be enforced

Hé Bug-One!

Fri, Apr 29, 2011

His Excoriating Highness Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus,of flesh-eating fame,glowered at the motley crowd of now muted microbes

Science,sense and sensation

Thu, Aug 19, 2010

Picking on the superbugs origins is futile. India should be concerned about antibiotic resistance....

Working for a healthy heart

Sat, Sep 26, 2009

India lost 9.2 mn potentially productive years of life due to cardiovascular deaths in a year....

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