Developed Nations Should Invest In Healthcare Of Poorer Countries: WHO

In the run-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries to gradually move t...

High Prices Of Food Lead To Malnutrition, Says Study

High food prices result in malnutrition in India, says a study done on children from Andhra Pradesh. The research published in the Journal of Nutrition says spikes in food ...

MDG Report: India On Track In Reducing Poverty

‘But it still remains home to one quarter of global underfed population’ India has halved its incidence of extreme poverty, from 49.4 per cent in 1994 to 24.7 p...

Significant Mother

How Maharashtra laboured for 12 years to bring down the state’s maternal mortality rate by 54% and what it’s doing to become the country’s primary pre and...

A Dose Of Culinary Medicine Sends Med Students To The Kitchen

When it comes to premature death and disease, what we eat ranks as the single most important factor, according to a study in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Assoc...

Meet the One Woman Medical School For TV Doctors-

Kate Folb is in the middle of telling a story.

Inspired by the season finale of How to Get Away With Murder, which featured two protagonists getting tested for HIV,...

Maternal And Infant Health: The Urban Disadvantage

Medscape: This year’s report noted that child mortality rates are at least twice as high among poor urban children compared with their richer counterparts—a gap...

Climate Change Could Erase 50 Years Of Health Advances, Report Says

'We are facing a predicament that strikes at the heart of humanity' Climate change may have a bigger impact on our health than we think. According to new research by an int...

Fatherhood And Maternal Health: An Overlooked But Lifesaving Connection

It goes without saying that Father’s Day is a time to celebrate the important role that a father plays in his children’s lives. As a father (and, recently, a gr...