Child nutrition in India’s developed States improves

India’s more developed States, especially its southern States, have seen improvements in child nutrition over the last five years, but have a patchy record on immunis...

Accent on male sterilisation

Between 2008 and March 2012, the Centre, under its Family Planning Insurance Scheme, had to pay compensation for botched sterilisation procedures which included 438 cases o...

Mobile health unit launched to improve women?? healthcare

In an attempt to bridge the widening gap between rural and urban healthcare for women, a free mobile healthcare unit (MHU) was launched in the national capital on Saturday....

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...

Expert group meets to draft guidelines for maternal health, antenatal care interventions

A 3-days Expert Group meeting for drafting Technical and Operational guidelines for various maternal health interventions like Calcium supplementation, Gestational Diabetes...

A simple yet rare solution

Iron deficiency in newborns can be checked if doctors wait for two minutes before cutting the umbilical cord More than 75 per cent infants in India suffer from anaemia or i...

First Lady Charity announce support for breast cancer

THE First Lady Charity will soon deliver a Mammogram machine for breast cancer to the Ministry of Health and Medical Services.

A member and secretary of the First L...

Uttarakhand safest for newborns: first annual health survey

The first ever annual health survey (AHS) released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on May 3 rates Uttarakhand as the safest state in India for child to be born...

Bring HIV/AIDS Bill in Parliament this winter session, demand activists

Civil society activists and members of the Indian Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS have demanded that the long overdue HIV/AIDS Bill should be tabled in Parliament d...