In Rural Gujarat, 60% Mothers Die Few Days After Delivery

Dahod resident Ganga (name changed) went to a private doctor when she suffered from breathlessness and giddiness in the ninth month of pregnancy. She was given medicines an...

The Right To Life

Watching a few clips of Blue Natalie, an Israeli Television series left me disturbed with the emotionally rough scenes of women being herded on to a yatch and then shoved d...

Suicide Will Soon Become India's Number 1 Killer': Vikram Patel

LONDON: India's foremost mental health expert who spends most of his time between Goa and London has now been named as among TIME magazine's 100 most influential people in ...

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, dec...

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 ...

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...

Traditions, Society And Healthcare- Taking A Look At Community Health Issues

It was a cool afternoon in the winter of 1990. We were walking toward a remote village on a dirt road through a forest. It was a voyage of delightful discovery of flora...