Public Health & Policy

38+ min ago   (435+ words) Eight years after its launch, the Ayushman Bharat scheme has shown that India can create health entitlements at an unprecedented scale. More than 45 crore Ayushman cards have been issued, and 12 crore hospital admissions authorised. The scheme has developed a wider…...

56+ min ago   (282+ words) Consider a situation that confronts medical practitioners, more often than not, in a hospital emergency room — an unconscious, unaccompanied patient is wheeled in, who may possibly require insulin, for example. By clubbing health data with general personal information, the Act…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (514+ words) WASHINGTON - The Pennsylvania health department has requested emergency support from the US CDC as it grapples with one of the country’s largest and most deadly measles outbreaks, though with certain terms, according to a document reviewed by Reuters on Thursday....

22+ min ago   (722+ words) When it comes to mosquito-borne disease, the bite is where everything begins. Viruses such as dengue, West Nile, and chikungunya cannot jump from a mosquito to a person any other way, and yet the moment of transmission—the actual bite…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (45+ words) ADEN-SABA The Ministry of Public Health and Population warned that attacks on or disruption of health and humanitarian facilities directly harm patients, children, women, displaced people and other... Health Ministry: Attacks on Health Facilities Directly Affect Patients All Rights Reversed…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (253+ words) Wed, 16 Sep 2026 Sat, 12 Sep 2026 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 Mon, 07 Sep 2026 Sun, 13 Sep 2026 Mon, 14 Sep 2026 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 Sun, 06 Sep 2026 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 Sat, 19 Sep 2026 Fri, 18 Sep 2026 Thu, 10 Sep 2026 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 Dr Jaleela bint Al Sayyed Jawad Hassan, Minister of Health, presented Amna bint Ahmed…...

6+ hour, 54+ min ago   (322+ words) Egypt’s Health Ministry is preparing to establish three new bone marrow transplant units as part of its 2026/27 investment plan, while 35 healthcare projects are under implementation across 13 governorates as authorities seek to expand treatment capacity and reduce patient waiting lists. Health…...

8+ hour, 25+ min ago   (1133+ words) When public health researchers want to know whether diseases such as COVID-19 or polio are circulating in a community, they can look for genetic evidence in wastewater. Entomologist Dana Price wondered whether the same principle could be applied to mosquitoes....

18+ hour, 26+ min ago   (197+ words) Millions of people eat at restaurants across New York every day, whether they're grabbing a breakfast sandwich on the way to work, meeting friends for lunch or enjoying a night out. Most expect the food they order to be safe....

9+ hour, 11+ min ago   (151+ words) A week-long anti-polio campaign will begin across Karachi on Monday, September 21, with health authorities targeting around 2.5 million children under the age of five.Commissioner Karachi Syed Hassan Naqvi said all arrangements for the campaign, which will continue until September 27, had…...