Untold Thousands Of Patients Misdiagnosed As Vegetative Are Actually Aware. Theirs Is The Civil Rights Fight Of Our Times

Seasoned nurse came up to me after a lecture I’d given at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She seemed shaken by my talk and I was surprised. She wo...

May 4 Marks First Maternal Mental Health Day To Increase Awareness Of Postpartum Mood Disorder

For the first time ever across the globe, May 4 will mark Maternal Mental Health Day in an effort to increase awareness of postpartum mood disorder (PPMD).

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8 Apps Revolutionizing Maternal Health Care In Developing Nations

In a global community that often treats health care as a luxury rather than a necessity, the world’s mothers are arguably some of those most impacted by inequality in...

Three Births

Dawlen Tirkey, a nurse in one of India’s poorest and least developed states, had decided that she and her husband could afford to have just one child.
Their son,...

Maternal Care And Beyond

The India Home Healthcare (IHHC) launched a campaign “Care for her”, to emphasise on the bond of love shared between mother and her child. The campaign also aim...

Hospitals Focus On Doing No Harm

Last week, I reported on the problem of preventable harm in hospitals. It has been estimated that each year between 98,000 and 440,000 people die as a result of preventable...

ISKCON Unveils Govardhan Eco Village At Wada To Mark Golden Jubilee

Mumbai, January 27, 2016: On the occasion of the Golden Jubilee anniversary, International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) presents two Eco-Vill...

In India, Dispensers of Balm Travel To Deaths Door

A white van coursed through narrow roads along the monsoon-soaked coastline of Kerala, a state in southwestern India. Inside, Radha Upasarna, a volunteer, and two nurses lo...

Recycling Unused Medicines To Save Money And Lives

It always troubled Deane Kirchner to throw away good medicine. When residents of the Lincoln Glen long-term facility in San Jose, Calif., where she is the director of nursi...