Health

Can Gender Equality Reduce Suicides In India?

New Delhi: Offering more reasons for men to share power with women, psychiatrists have said that gender equality can prevent many men from taking their own lives. Of the 15 pe...

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World Breastfeeding Week: Here’s how to take care of yourself post-pregnancy

As a new mother, you’ve endured the long wait, and possibly the discomfort of pregnancy. Soon after delivery though, parenting responsibilities set in, as does the routi...

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New Technology Lets Scientists See The Brain With Nanoscale Resolution

Neuroscientists have begun testing the most powerful brain imaging technology ever created, and it’s already helped them answers questions about how connections form in ...

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Could We Use Films To Teach People About Mental Health?

The film industry is often accused of exaggerating, downplaying, or perpetuating stereotypes about mental illness. But this is far from the whole story; there have been many g...

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How To Turn Big Health Data Into Big Health Action

Mobile technology has revolutionized data-collection tools for health workers, but unless that data creates meaningful change, the “data revolution” will struggle ...

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A New Report Identifies 30 Technologies That Will Save Lives In The Next 15 Years

President Obama wasn’t the only head of state visiting Ethiopia this summer. In early July, the United Nations brought global leaders to Addis Ababa, for the third annua...

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WHO Calls For Urgent Action To Curb Hepatitis

The World Health Organisations (WHO) is to use the 2015 World Hepatitis Day, slated for July 28 to highlight the urgent need for countries to enhance action aimed at preventin...

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A P J Abdul Kalam: Antibiotic Resistance Alarming Threat To Global Public Health

Speaking on the eve of ‘Doctors Day’, Kalam discussed about how the world was moving towards “post-antibiotic era”, in which common infections and mino...

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Mothers Helping Mothers To Live With H.I.V.

When Teresa Njeri got pregnant in 2001 in Kiambu, a suburb of Nairobi, it was the end of the world.   She was joyous about the pregnancy — but an AIDS test showed s...

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On AIDS: Three Lessons From Africa.

An AIDS fable: Once upon a time, in the years after AIDS went from being a death sentence to a manageable disease, at least for people rich enough to take antiretroviral thera...

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POLITICS: A NATION AT CROSSROADS AND APATHY

India stands at a crossroads, grappling with economic disparity, political polarization,...

November 24 2024

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