Health

Time To Ditch The Pill? World's First Contraception App That Is As Effective As A Condom Is Given A Seal Of Approval

An contraception app that uses body temperature to track a woman's menstrual cycle has been given the seal of approval. Natural Cycles records daily temperature and uses an al...

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UP’s Healthcare Paradox: From Worse Than Haiti To Better Than Rest OIf India

At a time when India’s sex ratio at birth is low and declining–from 909 (2011) to 887 (2014)–there are, in poor, populous Uttar Pradesh (UP), districts such ...

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Saving Babies' Lives By Carrying Them Like Kangaroos

Carmela Torres was 18 when she became pregnant for the first time. It was 1987 and she and her now-husband, Pablo Hernandez, were two idealistic young Colombians born in the c...

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Targeting Old Scourges

The reference in the Union Budget to new elimination targets for some major communicable diseases barely hints at the enormous burden carried by millions in India with tubercu...

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Soon, Women Can Get Injectable Contraceptives At Govt Hospitals

The Heallth and Family Welfare department is all set to introduce injectable contraceptives for women in the government hospitals by February end. So far, the state has had or...

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Only 19 Per Cent Specialist Doctors In India's Health Centres

India's elemental healthcare infrastructure seems to be in a critical condition' with a meagre 19% availability of specialist doctors in the community health centres (CHCs) ac...

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India In 10 years: Healthcare Sector Will See Radical Consolidation

Apart from the government, three-four large players, some of them international giants, will dominate 80% of the market Care of human health has intrigued the social, scientif...

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Why Dengue Turns Fatal For Patients With Second Infection

American scientists have made a research breakthrough in their study on dengue, a viral disease that wreaked havoc across India in the last two years, that could help treatmen...

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Regulate Stent Prices To Prevent Exploitation Of Patients: Health Campaigners

As it has become evident that patients in need of coronary stents are forced to pay 1000 to 2000 times of manufacturing cost in India, public health campaigners, today (Januar...

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A Pinworm Medication Is Being Tested As A Potential Anti-Cancer Drug

Cancer researchers are testing whether a generic drug that has been used for more than 40 years to treat parasitic infections may also help fight cancer. The tests of mebendaz...

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SAFAR MEIN SHAHAR: CITY AS CHARACTER

Film critic Utpal Datta explores Mazhar Q. Kamran’s Safar Mein Shahar, examining h...

March 7 2026

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE HUMAN FACTOR

Writer Ranjan Das Gupta reflects on emotional intelligence as a human, ethical and socia...

March 6 2026

A LAST CALL FOR THE PLANET

In this in-depth conversation with Vinta Nanda, Fr. Kureethadam Joshtrom reflects on eco...

March 5 2026