Health

Bill Gates Predicts Eradication Of Polio In Pakistan By 2017

Bill Gates said Wednesday that "with any luck" polio will be eradicated by 2017 in the last two countries where it remains active, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Microsoft fou...

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6 Reasons Why Breastfeeding Is Essential For Your Child's Health & Survival

There is nothing in the world that haunts a mother more than her child's health.And if all the new mothers are looking for something that can actually help infants fight virus...

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The Next Great Elimination Story: Malaria

Editor’s note: In commemoration of World Malaria Day, April 25, PATH will be sharing stories over the next five weeks from the front lines of the malaria elimination bat...

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Global Health Funding Becoming Scarce: Study

People wasting away from AIDS or succumbing to malaria may become an increasingly common sight within the next 25 years, as funding for universal health care shrivels up.Healt...

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Three Births

Dawlen Tirkey, a nurse in one of India’s poorest and least developed states, had decided that she and her husband could afford to have just one child.Their son, Abhinaw,...

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Global Studies Reveal Health Financing Crisis Facing Developing Countries

Two major studies published in The Lancet reveal the health financing crisis facing developing countries as a result of low domestic investment and stagnating international ai...

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Acquire Healthy Diet Practices, Expecting Mothers Told-

A lecture on “Maternal Nutrition” was delivered at Dewan Hospital to observe the National Safe Motherhood Day here today.Expert Neeta Dewan talked about proper die...

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Saving Lives In Poor Nations Costs $ 5 Per Person

About $5 per person a year could avert the crisis of millions of child and maternal deaths in poor nations, according to a new report.According to John Hopkins researchers, 4 ...

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Efforts Are On To Reduce Maternal Deaths

Every year, more than 19 lakh women become pregnant in the state. Out of them, around 1.9 lakh women come up with complaints of different kinds of complications, while more th...

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Easy-To-Use Iud Inserter Could Aid Women Who Lack Access To Birth Control

There are lots of good reasons for women to space their babies at least two years apart. Studies show higher risks of premature birth, pregnancy complications and delivery pro...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: THE FILMMAKER, THE ETERNAL SEEKER

As it completes a 50-day run, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri looks at Srijit Mukherji’s Pa...

October 9 2024

THOUGHT FACTORY: LOVE LANGUAGES GUIDE TO MOHABBAT KI DUKAAN

Discover how to express and receive love through the five love languages, nurturing rela...

October 8 2024

FESTIVALS: THE CHANGING FACE OF DURGA PUJA

Religious Fest? Reality Show? Sponsored Program? A little of all these? Monojit Lahiri l...

October 6 2024