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Lancet Report: On Healthcare, India Worst Among BRICS?Countries?

India is the poorest performer on health among the five BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), a new report card on the health scene in the country ...

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Retroscope

Retroscope - Unsung Talents

It was the day they got married, remembers Mrs Salil Chowdhury, chuckling to herself, when the letter arrived inviting Chowdhury to Bombay. The particular letter that was t...

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Health

Five Majors Announce Project ĀSMĀN To Reduce Maternal And Newborn Mortality In India

Project ĀSMĀN, a major healthcare initiative aimed at reducing infant, neonatal and maternal mortality in India, was launched on November 3, 2015 by a consortium of leadi...

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Bollywood

Kajol Unveils Anand Gandhi’s Film On Importance Of Handwashing

Actress Kajol, who has been a part of health soap Lifebuoy’s ‘Help a Child Reach 5’ handwashing programme since the last three years, on Thursday launched...

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Health

Skin-To-Skin Contact With Baby In Neonatal Unit Decreases Maternal Stress Levels

WASHINGTON, DC – Research shows that stable parent-child bonds are fundamental to healthy child development. For parents of babies born prematurely or with special me...

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Health

Change In NHM Funding Pattern? Tweak In Funds May Affect Health

Despite a number of schemes announced by the erstwhile UPA government coming under attack from the BJP-led NDA government, the success of 10-year-old National Health Missio...

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Health

How India Cut Neonatal Tetanus Mortality By 99.76%

In 2012, a 12-day-old boy (we will call him “Baby Boy”) in Assam’s Sivasagar district could not be given his feed because he had lockjaw his face muscles ...

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Health

Bridging The Digital Divide: UP’s Frontline Health Workers Go ‘Smart’

LUCKNOW: In an effort to strengthen data-keeping of rural health indices in UP, the state government will train over 12,000 frontline health workers to report, in real-time...

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Health

Why Healthy Mothers Matter.

Healthy mothers give birth to healthy children who grow up to be productive adults. By contrast, women who begin pregnancy too thin and do not gain enough weight during pre...

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Health

Uttar Pradesh To Get 'M-Sakhi' App Aimed At Improving Maternal Health.

A mobile application ‘m-sakhi’ will be launched in five districts of Uttar Pradesh from October, to streamline and supervise the work of ASHA, ANM and anganwadi...

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