Some hard truths on safe motherhood

Maternal deaths should be treated as a human rights issue and governments need to focus on best antenatal practices and provision of emergency obstetric care to bring down ...

Pariva Pranati: Hamari Sister Didi is not like Sanjivani or Dill Mill Gayye

There’s a new doctor show in the market and we wonder if Sony Pal’s daily soap runs on the same lines The recently launched channel – Sony Pal announced a...

Emergency call

Nearly 140,000 people in India died in road accidents last year. Several communicable diseases together do not take such a huge toll on human life. But the country does not...

India Today Woman Summit 2014: Manisha Koirala: Beating cancer and living to tell the tale

Manisha Koirala comes out brave and speaks about battling cancer and life after that. She arrives at the India Today Woman Summit 2014 wearing a beautiful crisp silk saree ...

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...

Using Muslim Clerics to Increase Polio Vaccination in Nigeria

A coalition campaign involving imams, Islamic school teachers, traditional rulers, doctors, journalists, and polio survivors is gradually turning the tide against polio vac...

Beckham To Sell Clothes To Help Women With HIV

Victoria Beckham is giving away 600 pieces of her clothing to raise money and awareness for mothers living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. The fashion designer and former p...

Jennifer Hudson Stand Up To Cancer

Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, and Genentech, one of the world’s leading biotech companies, have joined forces with GR...

It’s time to bring HIV prevention drugs out of the closet

May 14 should have been PrEP’s big coming out moment. That’s when the federal government issued new guidelines urging doctors to adopt the use of PrEP – a...