Health

Katharine McPhee To Perform At American Cancer Society Birthday Ball.

The American Cancer Society will present its annual Birthday Ball during National Cancer Survivors weekend on June 6, 2015 at the famed Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. ...

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India And Netherlands Sign Mou For Development Of Vaccines

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between India and Netherlands for development of vaccines. The MoU signed under ‘Make in India’ initiative of Govern...

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Technology, Health And Media- Searching For Breakthroughs

August 1994- Sitting in a state transport bus on way to a remote village in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, I was marvelling at the greenery all around.  There we...

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How Women Contribute $3 Trillion To Global Healthcare

The traditional focus on women’s health tends to emphasise only their healthcare needs. But women are important providers – as much as they are recipients – ...

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Improving Rural Health Care, One Boat Trip At A Time

More than 10 years ago, Sanjoy Hazarika heard about the death of a mother in a remote island in Assam, a state in northeast India, because she couldn’t get to the hospit...

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Almost A Year After Eliminating Polio, India Declared Free Of Maternal And Neonatal Tetanus

NEW DELHI- In yet another major achievement, India has been declared free of maternal and neonatal tetanus. Calling it a “significant public health milestone”, the...

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BMC, MDACS Join Hands To Eliminate New HIV Cases

Building on the success of the Pulse Polio programme, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has begun work on total eradication of new HIV cases and aims to achieve thi...

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Spurt in HIV Positive Cases Rings Alarm Bells in Bengal

West Bengal is fast becoming a high-risk HIV positive state. According to statistics for the last two years available with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, West Beng...

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Inequality Has Transformed Surviving Childhood Into A Global Postcode Lottery

Children?? lives are shaped by social and economic factors that often differ wildly between and within countries ??a grim reality that only a skilled, readily available health...

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India Partners With American NGO To Meet Its Maternal Health Goals

To alleviate the issue of maternal and infant deaths in India, the government launched a unique MAMTA card in Rajasthan and Gujarat a couple of years ago. The card tracks crit...

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FESTIVALS: THE CHANGING FACE OF DURGA PUJA

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

October 6 2024

POLITICS: GLOBAL VIOLENCE AND THE HUMAN TOLL

As wars and violence surge worldwide, this article explores the tragic human cost, globa...

October 5 2024

FESTIVALS: THE BATTLE OF VOICES 2024

We’re proud to partner with Battle of Voices 2024, a groundbreaking podcast compet...

October 4 2024