Health

World Health Day To Focus On Food Safety This Year

Food poisoning and diarrhoeal infection are the two leading causes of food-borne illnesses in India. Moreover, due to lack of laboratories and shortage of manpower, many outbr...

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Medicine For Drug - Resistant TB Launched

On the eve of World Tuberculosis Day, Health Minister J.P. Nadda launched Bedaquiline — new drug for Drug Resistant TB — as part of the national programme. The dru...

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New Ultra-Sensitive Test For Cancer, HIV Developed

A new ultra-sensitive test has been designed to detect diseases including HIV and cancer, it may prove 10,000 times more effective than current diagnostic tools, say Stanford ...

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Contraception And Family Planning Around The World – Interactive.

A record number of women now use contraception. The latest figures from the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs show 64% of married and cohabiting women used ...

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10 Women Who Are Disrupting Global Health And Tech

There’s something about the rising humidity, the pre-dawn birdsong, the flowers we forgot we planted. It’s a disruptive, yet hopeful feeling—which makes it t...

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Immunisation: A Powerful Piece Of The Equality Puzzle

In 2016, girls and women are still more likely to miss out when it comes to the advances of global development: going to school, getting well paid for their work or representi...

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Minimizing Out-Of-Pocket Health Expenditure For India's Poor

The recent adoption of Sustainable Development Goals by the United Nations endorsed an earlier agreement on a resolution passed on Dec. 12, 2012, which emphasizes all member s...

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5 Ways To Stop 200,000 Child Deaths

This month, hundreds of thousands of children will get access to rotavirus vaccines in India with the start of a national introduction that marks Asia’s largest to date....

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Doctors Punjab Health Spend More On Salaries Less On Care

Two separate reports relating to health and healthcare in Punjab released last week have underlined that the poor, especially in rural areas, remain the most vulnerable to can...

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Vadodara: HIV Patients Leaving Treatment Mid-Way

Vadodara: Concerned over increasing number of HIV patients leaving ART therapy mid-way, SSG Hospital's Integrated Counselling and Testing Centre (ICTC) has launched an initiat...

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UDTA TEER REVIEW: STAR CAST DISAPPOINTS

Udta Teer, starring Ayushmann Khurrana and Sara Ali Khan, attempts to turn Indo-Pakistan...

October 26 2026

TU HAI MERI KIRAN: OBSESSION FAILS TO FLY

Arnab Banerjee reviews Karan Rawal’s Tu Hai Meri Kiran, a science-fiction thriller...

October 25 2026

(NOT) A FORGOTTEN FREEDOM FIGHTER OF GOA

Libby de Liberdade: A Century of Courage, Conscience and Goa’s Freedom explores ce...

October 24 2026