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Building partnerships with patients is critical to improving health reform practices

Patient engagement will be the “blockbuster drug of the 21st century” which will help countries “shepherd resources,” said Susan Edgman-Levitan, Execut...

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Ending the AIDS epidemic is a matter of human rights

HIV has taught us that health and human rights are intricately linked and that we need to protect and respect human rights and becourageous enough to confront society’s ...

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China Releases Blueprint for Adapting to Climate Change

China issued its first nation-wide blueprintfor adapting to climate change, as governments around the world shift their efforts from focusing solely on curbing global warming ...

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Any cheers for Doha pact?

The Doha Declaration on protecting public health is a decade old, but developing countries have not been able to make use of TRIPs flexibilities. Read More

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Financing for sustainable development: Can the international financial system make the leap?

The Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals may still be pondering the number and nature of the new goals. However, the question of which issues are “goalabl...

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Limits of Vitamin D Supplements

A large review of studies has found that vitamin D supplements have little or no benefit beyond the low levels required for bone health.http://nyti.ms/1e5wDWY

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Equal opportunities: Women empowerment help give them authority

Education is an essential means to empower women with the knowledge, skills and self-confidence. This was said by Dr Fiona Bartels Ellis, head of Equality and Diversity at the...

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Gay sex is a criminal offence, rules Supreme Court

In a blow to gay rights activists, the Supreme Courton Wednesday upheld the constitutional validity of the penal provision making gay sex an offence punishable with upto ...

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Industry pushes for hybrid insurance model to achieve universal health coverage

A report released by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) on Monday recommended that a model which allows public sector to deliver services like antenatal care an...

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A new model for Women Empowerement

With successful implementation of various programmes aiming  to bring women to the forefront of society, the Sarada Krishna Iyer Satgamaya Centre, Udayamperoor, has set a...

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POWERFUL PEOPLE: 55 YEARS ON, MERE APNE’S RELEVANCE

Khalid Mohamed in conversation with the indefatigable poet, lyricist, story-script-write...

January 20 2026

KALEIDOSCOPE: LUCKNOW BETWEEN PAST AND NOW

Cultures are never frozen in time, they keep moving, keep evolving.Filmmaker and writer ...

January 19 2026

HEALTH: WHEN CANCER GETS PERSONAL

As cancer treatment continues to rely on averages and probabilities, a breakthrough appr...

January 18 2026