August 01, 2023 02:07 pm | Updated August 02, 2023 10:17 am IST(In the weekly Health Matters newsletter, Ramya Kannan writes about getting to good health, and staying there. India takes its first step towards opening the door to Controlled Human Infection Studies, says Bindu Shajan Perappadan. It is more often used to study ‘less-deadly diseases’ such as influenza, dengue, typhoid, cholera and malaria, unlike in traditional clinical studies. Further, on detection, Vinod Scaria and Sridhar Sivasubbu record how cell-free DNA promises to transform how we find diseases. The IIPS works under the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and conducts important studies like the National Family Health Survey, Assessment of National Rural Health Mission, and the Global Adult Tobacco Survey.

Source: The Hindu August 02, 2023 04:56 UTC