Health

Without Universal Health Coverage, World Health Day Means Little To Most Of India

How far will you go to save your child or parents? To poverty and beyond, is what many thousand Indians are doing each day. The draft National Health Policy 2015 mentioned tha...

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Sure Cure: How To Tackle India's Undernutrition Crisis In 10 Steps

India is the epicenter of a global stunting crisis. At least 39% of the country's children under five - about 47 million souls - suffered from stunting in 2015. That's more st...

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That Little Piece Of Myself: Living With Depression

Living with depression is like living with a roommate who eats all your snacks. I posted that as my Facebook status a while back, and it got a lot of likes, most of them from ...

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Family Planning Is Critical For Our Nation’s Economic Development

India launched the world’s first National Family Planning Programme way back in 1952 and has been consistently working towards improving health and reducing fertility fo...

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Disability The Changing Pattern Of Healthcare In India

The government’s allocation to healthcare as a percentage of GDP has fallen to 1.05% in 2015-16 from 1.47% in 1986-87The evolution of healthcare in India over the past 2...

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3 Striking Charts Show How Vaccines Have Impacted 20th Century Diseases

Despite the few very loud voices still claiming vaccines are dangerous (and getting a lot of attention in the process), there is overwhelming evidence that they make the world...

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Labeling The Danger In Soda

How many teaspoons of sugar do you think are in a 16-ounce bottle of Coke?a) 3b) 6c) 9d) 12The answer is 12. A 16-ounce Snapple Kiwi Strawberry — “Made from the Be...

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Urban Health: Major Opportunities For Improving Global Health Outcomes, Despite Persistent Health Inequities

New data on the health of city-dwellers in almost 100 countries show that as the world’s urban population continues to grow, health inequities - especially between the r...

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Rotavirus Vaccine Launched Under Immunisation Drive

The health ministry on Saturday launched the rotavirus vaccine as part of its universal immunisationprogramme to prevent diarrhoeal deaths due to the virus which claims lives ...

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Disability No Hurdle, Prakash Shows The Way

Prakash, who is 90 percent physically disabled and belongs to Mumbai, donated blood for the 77th time at the PGI today. Prakash M Nadar was afflicted by polio during childhood...

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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