How Will The Global Financing Facility Deliver For Sexual And Reproductive Health And Rights?

Sexual and reproductive health must be at the forefront of the health agenda. Despite family planning being the most cost-effective public health and development interventi...

Mapping Family?? Health Through Unvaccinated Kids

Indradhanush to cover as many as 89 lakh unimmunised children what can one unimmunised child tell about the health of the entire family? According to officials in the Union...

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 ...

Maternal Deaths Fall, Yet High

PATNA: Incidence of maternal deaths has shown decline in Bihar though the 208 deaths per one lakh live births are still one of the highest in the country. What should worry...

India bets on mobiles in battle on maternal, child deaths

NEW DELHI, March 17 (Reuters) - India is betting on cheap mobile phones to cut some of the world's highest rates of maternal and child deaths, as it rolls out a campaign of...

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.

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Many young Indian women underweight, their babies too – research

Researchers have long puzzled over why children in India, despite being wealthier, are shorter and smaller than children in sub-Saharan Africa. At least part of the answer ...

About two-thirds of world’s population suffers tooth decay

A new study has sounded the alarm on the dental health status of people. The report, published in the Journal of Dental Research, says that more than 2.4 billion people acr...

Breastfeeding Is Ideal:Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Human milk provides the best nutrition for most babies and breastfeeding provides the best nutrition for infants and very young children, according to an updated position p...