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Health
Now, An App To Find The Closest Blood Bank
Moved by the plight of people who frantically search for blood donors and blood banks during medical emergencies, a Bengaluru-based software engineer has developed a mobile ap...
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Dehydration: Risks And Myths
Despite the vital importance of water, there are relatively few good studies of how much is needed, by whom and under what circumstances.Truth to tell, sometimes I don’t...
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The Faces Of Malnutrition
Nearly half of all deaths in children under 5 can be attributed to undernutrition. This translates into the unnecessary loss of about 3 million young lives a year. Only a frac...
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In Rwanda, A Phone Text Can Save A Baby
Using an old mobile phone, health worker Floride Uwinkesha logs the latest local pregnancy, part of efforts in Rwanda to boost maternal health through a monitoring programme i...
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Group Pioneers Cheap Tricycles To Transport Women In Labour
Despite huge efforts to bring down maternal and infant mortality and the strides already achieved, one new-born child dies every 15 minutes with 30,000 new-born deaths recorde...
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WHO South–East Asia Region Eliminates Maternal And Neonatal Tetanus
In a major public health feat, WHO South-East Asia Region has eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus with all districts across the 11 countries having reduced the cases to l...
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WHO Says Life Expectancy Has Increased By Five Years Since 2000, But Health Inequalities Persist.
Dramatic gains in life expectancy have been made globally since 2000, but major inequalities persist within and among countries, according to this year's 'World Health Statist...
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Making A Fundamental Shift In Drug Policy And Harm Reduction
In 1998, the United Nations General Assembly convened a special session under the slogan, “A drug-free world — we can do it!” with the goal of prohibiting th...
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Taking Care Of Business.
One day in September, in a small town north of Kampala in Uganda, a young woman, pregnant with twins and still weeks away from full term, arrived at the Maria Maternity Ward, ...
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Factbox: Women's Health - From Maternal Mortality To Child Marriage
COPENHAGEN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Over 5,000 delegates from 150 countries arrive in Copenhagen this week for Women Deliver - a major global conference on the health, r...
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