Deepika to start foundation to promote mental health care

Actress Deepika Padukone will start a foundation to promote mental health care on March 21Deepika who herself suffered from depression for a brief period last year, came ou...

Kalam voices concern about maternal, infant mortality rates

Former president A P J Abdul Kalam today expressed his concerns about maternal mortality rate (MMR) and infant mortality rate (IMR) in the country. Inaugurating a medical f...

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...

Swine flu: Is city facing shortage of vaccines?

City-based chemists and druggists associations are finding it difficult to meet its rising demand

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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 ...

£12 device can save 70000 moms yearly at risk during birthing

The lives of tens of thousands of new mothers around the world could be saved by a simple, hand-held, British-made device costing only £12, which runs on a mobile-pho...

POLITICS AND COMPLEXITY OF CULTURES IN INDIAN MEDIA

Writing entertaining content is no longer about an indulgence; nor about the purging of an overwhelmed soul.

Neither is it about following directives of marketing a...

Assam’s rural health practitioners face uncertain future

In mid-February, rural health practitioners of Assam sat on a three-day protest in Guwahati, demanding assured career and regular jobs. This follows a high court order, whi...

How Did A Celibate 82-Year-Old Buddhist Monk Contract HIV?

An 82-year-old celibate Buddhist abbot from Cambodia has been diagnosed with HIV. His doctor was the cause: He was reusing syringes and infected a reported 272 individuals,...