All Strange Things About India and world
Simple interventions and sustained joint efforts by civil society groups and the local panchayat have resulted in significant improvements in communication and increase in health awareness in some of Rajasthan’s…
Junk food, lack of exercise, poor parenting and modern lazy lifestyles are all triggers for obesity among children, which is turning out to be a major health hazard in present-day…
As India moves closer to the deadline for achievement of its Millennium Development Goals, the critical need for effective family planning interventions and greater awareness of the same become more…
The National Food Security Bill is an important step towards ensuring the country’s founding principles of health, education and nutrition services for all, but can achieve that end only when…
Those in the 50-plus age group form the second largest chunk of HIV infected persons. But this group is clearly not at the heart of the AIDS control programme. Puja…
The better education and health outcome indicators in the southern states compared to the north, has been acknowledged for a long time. And yet to see it with ones own…
Recent advances in Indian surgical capabilities have put the world on notice that our doctors are capable of providing world-class care. The question now is, how do we get this…
It is frightening to think of how the new drug resistant strain of tuberculosis is going to spread in crowded, unhygienic, urban India. Doctors are worried. Ramesh Menon reports. 21…
08 November 2011 – Across the globe, various concerns are being voiced about a gene that causes a wide range of bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics; the gene was…
HIV-positive children in Assam and their families need more than the usual measures of state support for their economic, medical and social needs. Ratna Bharali Talukdar reports. 26 September 2011…