Health

India’s Population Surges As Men Remain Reluctant To Use Contraceptive Measures

Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis is taking a digital campaign route and tapping into hologram technology to woo voters in the Maharashtra civic polls. To reach out...

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Here’s Why India Is Struggling And Failing To Control Tuberculosis

TB is continuing to devastate lives in India because of the government’s inability to regulate an exploitive private health sector, and to fill gaps in the supply of liv...

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Health Stories From Rural India

The rise of witch doctors, quacks and unregistered allopathic doctors as a result of an inadequate health infrastructure is not incidental is a point made by a Bilaspur-based ...

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4 of 5 Sterilised Women Have 3 Or More Kids, Suggests Survey

Even as female sterilisation continues to be the most common contraceptive method used in India, it has failed to address the problem of population control. Almost four out of...

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Ministry Of Health And Family Welfare Launches Report On India’s Tobacco-Free Film And Television Policy

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India revealed the findings of a study to evaluate the implementation of the ‘Film Rule’, under the Cigare...

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Health A Socio-Cultural Issue In India, Difficult To Address It: Expert

Panaji: Health is still a socio-cultural issue in India and it is challenging to address it because of people's approaches towards medication, observed child health expert Mon...

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Time To Ditch The Pill? World's First Contraception App That Is As Effective As A Condom Is Given A Seal Of Approval

An contraception app that uses body temperature to track a woman's menstrual cycle has been given the seal of approval. Natural Cycles records daily temperature and uses an al...

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UP’s Healthcare Paradox: From Worse Than Haiti To Better Than Rest OIf India

At a time when India’s sex ratio at birth is low and declining–from 909 (2011) to 887 (2014)–there are, in poor, populous Uttar Pradesh (UP), districts such ...

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Saving Babies' Lives By Carrying Them Like Kangaroos

Carmela Torres was 18 when she became pregnant for the first time. It was 1987 and she and her now-husband, Pablo Hernandez, were two idealistic young Colombians born in the c...

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Targeting Old Scourges

The reference in the Union Budget to new elimination targets for some major communicable diseases barely hints at the enormous burden carried by millions in India with tubercu...

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GENDER: HOW PATRIARCHY SILENCES RESISTANCE

Patriarchy persists by co-opting privileged voices, masking systemic exploitation in ind...

November 23 2024

KALEIDOSCOPE: BRIDGING THE SACRED AND THE ARTISTIC

A spiritual and artistic celebration that brings the divine essence of Varanasi’s ...

November 22 2024

POWERFUL PEOPLE: USHA UTHUP - THE QUEEN OF POP

Celebrating Usha Uthup’s five-decade journey as a musical trailblazer, cultural am...

November 21 2024