Sustaining our Development

The CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Sue Desmond-Hellmann spoke to livemint.com, discussing the need to provide healthcare to India's poor to achieve the susta...

Losing our Lakes

Lonar Lake in Maharashtra is rapidly shrinking in size, researchers have found. The lake, situated in the Buldhana district near Amravati in central India, has recorded a d...

Mosquito Maladies

The days when malaria could be called a fatal disease are past now, but we still have a long way to go.

Research towards combating the disease has evolved at a trem...

India Has 31% Of The World's Poor Kids

About 31% of the world’s “multidimensionally poor” children live in India, according to a new report by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiativ...

Diarrhoea Kills Half A Million Children Globally, Shows Lancet Study

Immediate and sustained action urged as diarrhoea remains among leading causes of child mortality despite improved access to clean water and sanitation Half a million child...

Statins Could Reduce Risk Of Breast Cancer Deaths By 38%, Research Shows

Chinese research shows statins associated with reduction in death Analysis prompts calls for further clinical trials of cholesterol-reducing drugs Statins – drugs tha...

Bangladesh: Empowering & Employing Women In The Garment Business

The garment industry in Bangladesh has played a significant role in economically uplifting a large cohort of poor and vulnerable women. The opportunity to be gainfully empl...

More Than A Fifth Of The World’s Child Diarrhoeal Deaths Occur In India

India continues to contribute the most child deaths due to diarrhoeal disease globally--over 1 lakh child deaths in 2015 alone--a new report in the medical journal Lancet h...

Paediatricians Demand Preventive Policy For SAM Children

New Delhi: In a letter addressed to Health Minister J P Nadda, a group of 16 medical practitioners, most of whom are paediatricians, has urged the government to take policy...