Flu shots effective in pregnant women with or without HIV

Tests conducted in 2011 and 2012 show that the influenza vaccine effectively prevents flu infections in pregnant women, whether or not they are infected with HIV. Vaccinati...

Even if you build a toilet, they may not come: water expert

Bangladesh and India have long tried to stop people from defecating in outdoor public places – a practice that spreads fatal diseases – but Bangladesh has had m...

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 ...

Kanan Devan to bring 3,000 growers of TN, Kerala under Rainforest Alliance

Kanan Devan Hills Plantations Company is taking initiative to bring around 3,000 small growers in Kerala and Tamil Nadu under the ambit of the Rainforest Alliance (RA) Cert...

These Are Some Of The Most Interesting Green Projects Coming Out Of India

We were completely blown away when we read about the two 15-year-old boys from Nainital who invented a device that enables a shoe to charge a mobile phone. It?s mind-boggli...

To improve sex ratio, Khap ends 500-yr-old ritual in 5 Jat villages

In Dhariwal gotra-dominated Jaurasi-Fatehpur villages of Mewat, the Jat Khap Panchayat has abandoned a 500-year-old practice of ‘pagribandi’ (brotherhood) with ...

India's 'untouchable' scavengers

Rights group Human Rights Watch has called on the Indian government to end “manual scavenging” – the practice of cleaning human waste by low-caste communi...

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...

At 240 million, India has a third of child marriages in the world

A recent United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) report said 720 million women around the world, alive today, were married before 18 years compared to 156 million men...