Government To Launch Toll-Free Helpline For Tuberculosis Patients

Seeking to reach out to tuberculosis patients, the government today said that it will launch a toll-free helpline, whereby even a missed call would suffice to connect them ...

Global Warming Is Already Clobbering The Amazon

WHEN IT COMES to doing research in the Amazon, Oliver Phillips says the worst part is the sweat bees. Phillips, an ecologist from the University of Leeds who has been ...

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...

Political Apathy, Unplanned Urbanisation Make Vector-Borne Diseases Hard To Control in India

Only 60 per cent of the total plan outlay for vector-borne diseases spent between 2007 to2013; lack of co-ordination between ministries and state agencies a major hurdle in...

David Suchet Joins Campaign To Fight Genetic Diseases

Actor David Suchet ??best known for playing Agatha Christie?? detective Hercule Poirot in the long-running TV show Poirot ??has joined the fight for those with rare genetic...

Missed Calls From Patients Can Help Monitor TB Treatment, Says Government.

Popping three pills a day and giving a missed call on a designated number??his is what the government recommends to patients of tuberculosis (TB) registered under the DOTS ...

Seth Rogen Helps Raise Awareness About Neurological Conditions

Media planet announces distribution of its second cross-platform edition of ??eurological Conditions?? raising awareness about various neurological diseases and disorders s...

Water for sustainable development

In the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012 (Rio+20), water has been recognised as the key to achieving sustainable development as it is closely lin...

14th World Congress on Public Health held in Kolkata

Kolkata recently hosted the 14th World Congress on Public Health (WCPH) at the city’s Science City auditorium. Kolkata last hosted the Congress in 1981.

The C...