India Together: Obesity: Are parents responsible? – 27 June 2013
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…
India Together: Planning families, planning progress – 11 March 2013
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…
India Together: Neglecting children a blunder: Sen – 18 February 2013
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…
India Together: 50+, and HIV-plus – 02 November 2012
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…
India Together: Tamilnadu’s striking progress in welfare – 10 September 2012
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…
India Together: As good as it gets – 24 July 2012
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…
India Together: TB: Dangerous comeback – 21 February 2012
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…
India Together: The Superbugs are here – III – 08 November 2011
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…
India Together: Special support needed – 26 September 2011
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…
India Together: An eye for empowerment – 25 July 2011
Mritunjay Tiwary has brought eyesight to tens of thousands of people through his eye hospital in rural Bihar. But his vision of development extends much farther. Ruchi Choudhary reports. 25…