Health

What Is Placenta?

An incredibly complex and important organ in its own right, the placenta is only found in mammals. And how it functions has the potential to have profound effects on the lifel...

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How Can We Make Medication Use In Pregnancy Safer?

Women?? human rights need to be addressed globally in order to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity. And healthcare professionals have an important role to play in tackling...

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Treating Malnourished Children At Home Yields Better Results, Says Study

A new study shows that treating children suffering from malnutrition at home produces better results than admitting them in Nutritional Rehabilitation Centres (NRCs). Home-bas...

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Gates Foundation Head Challenges Students To Pursue Big Ambitions In Public Health

As the chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Sue Desmond-Hellmann leads a multi-billion dollar effort to improve health and promote equity for al...

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PEST-LE Analysis ??Ultrasound Market

Over the last four decades, ultrasonography has emerged as one of the most important imaging techniques in modern medicine. The bettered and newer applications, declining cos...

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Mobilizing Community Support Key To Good Maternal And Child Health

Engaging in a dialogue with policymakers, mobilizing public and community support and stimulating positive behaviour are key to ensuring proper maternal and child health, expe...

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Rights-Based Maternity Care Must Become A Global Priority

It has become all too clear lately that to be pregnant, to be in labor, or to birth a child is to put oneself at the mercy of larger powers—powers that sometimes seem un...

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Government Relaxes Norms; Cancer Drug Prices Goes Up

The government has allowed pharmaceutical companies to hike rates of 509 essential medicines used for treating various ailments like diabetes, hepatitis and cancer by 3.84 per...

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Fighting TB With A Drive-In Film And Test

Some lives hang on the distance of dusty roads, with a cure out of reach. Take tuberculosis, an ancient disease that still kills about 4,100 people each day around the world b...

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Making A Medicine As Easy To Find As A Can Of Coke

Diarrheal disease, which kills a million children younger than 5 each year, has an image problem. It doesn’t raise much alarm in industrialized countries, where it is me...

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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