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India Needs To Develop A Strategy For Training Human Resources For Mental Healthcare

The emergence of suicide prevention as a public health challenge requiring urgent national action has been painfully slow globally. The urgency has been slower in middle- a...

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Environment

'Link Up Public Health With The Climate Change Agenda'

The global health and climate community met in Paris last week to highlight the insidious link between health and climate change and demand more explicit recognition of thi...

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Health

Maternal Mortality Rate In Five Districts 55% Higher Than State Average

A 13-year-old girl in Koppal who was married off at the age of 12 and got pregnant when she was 13, died even before she could get a grasp on life. While her body couldn't ...

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Health

Give Your Maternal Streak A Chance

Lactation Consultant may be a career path which is not talked about a lot but for those who find their calling in the nursing field, it could be an option. Dr Preeti Gangan...

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Trending

Philanthropist Bill Gates Talks Public Health, Biotech, And The Race For The White House

Bill Gates became one of the richest men in history after cofounding Microsoft. His impact on the world of personal computing cannot be overstated. But for more than 15 yea...

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Health

What Is Missing On The Global Health Front?

The last World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva (23-28 May) discussed the manifold global health crises that require urgent attention, and adopted resolutions to act on many...

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Health

UN Plans To End AIDS Threat By 2030

Speaking at a high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday, Health Minister J.P. Nadda reiterated India’s commitment to fa...

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Sustainable Development

Why It's So Hard To Determine If Food And Drinks Cause Cancer

On Wednesday, the WHO’s cancer research arm—the International Agency for Research on Cancer—announced it had taken coffee off its list of items considered...

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Health

India To Vaccinate 300,000 Children After Polio Strain Found In Sewage

India plans to urgently immunize around 300,000 children against the crippling polio virus after a strain of the highly contagious disease was detected in sewage in the sou...

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Health

A Big Boost For Public Health

Maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT) is no longer a major public health problem in the World Health Organisation (WHO) South-East Asia region. The WHO South-East Asia Region...

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