From Activism to Slacktivism

Amit Khanna writes that even as hundreds of millions wake up to a good morning message from friends and family, an equal if no...

Tragic Loss: Sushant Singh Rajput

Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide by hanging, at age of 34, sent shockwaves through Bollywood on Sunday afte...

Jansen and her Journey in translating VAW data into Meaningful Interventions and Policies

The United Nations defines violence against women as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is l...

Bill Gates writes about the success of the Mass Drug Administration Project in Tanzania

Bill Gates, though, is a technologist and a business leader, he is mainly a philanthropist. These days he focuses most of his time on the work he and his wife, Melinda are ...

Mosquito Maladies

The days when malaria could be called a fatal disease are past now, but we still have a long way to go.

Research towards combating the disease has evolved at a trem...

If We Can Make A Zika Vaccine, Why Can't We Make One For Malaria

As the Zika virus continues to spread through the Americas, researchers have been scrambling to develop a vaccine—an achievement some say we could reach within the ye...

How Safe And Hygienic Is Your Food? Find Out

There are over 200 diseases caused by contaminated food or drinking water that contain harmful bacteria, parasites, viruses and chemical substances. Millions fall ill and m...

Scientists make DNA barcode of malaria parasite

An international team of researchers led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom, has identified segments in the DNA of malaria-causing parasi...

World Health Day 2014: Prevention and control

World Health Day is observed each year on April 7. The theme chosen for this year is Vector-borne diseases. Vectors are organisms that transmit pathogens and parasites from...