India gets it first mental health policy

Timed to coincide with the World Mental Health Day, the policy aims to provide universal access to mental healthcare, especially to those living in poverty The Union health...

SOS Villages of India and TISS holds state seminar on Quality Care of every Child

Mumbai, October 10, 2014: In order to understand the scenario of alternative care for children living wi...

Clinton Announces Global Initiative to Educate Girls

Former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton has announced a $600 million effort to help girls around the world enroll in secondary schools. She unveiled the plan Wednesd...

Crowdsourcing technology could ensure safety of drinking water in rural India

A research group has introduced a crowdsourcing technique to measure the quality of drinking water. This technique can prove to be a boon for a country like India where onl...

Childhood Diet Habits Set in Infancy, Studies Suggest

Efforts to improve what children eat should begin before they even learn to walk, a series of nutritional studies published on Tuesday has found. Taken together, the data i...

Hamari Sister Didi Factually Enriched Medical Dramas Making Waves In The Primetime Slot

After a tremendous drought of f medical themed shows, the launch of the new premium channel: ‘Sony Pal’ is now breaking the horizon with their new show: “...

India ranks among top 3 medical tourism destinations in Asia

“Within Asia, India, Thailand and Singapore are the three countries that receive maximum medical tourists owing to low cost of treatment, quality healthcare infrastru...

Now, a treatment for mouth cancer that kills only cancerous cells!

Cancer of the mouth and throat are the most common cancers in Indian males, because of the high incidence of smoking, chewing tobacco and the widespread use of pan masala. ...

Habits of Highly Humanistic Doctors

Even in these times of highly commercialized health care you might still come across doctors and physicians who are humanistic.

How are they different?

I re...