As the world celebrates Global Handwashing Day on October 15, here is why handwashing is important and why a day is dedicated to promote it ...
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Handwashing Day 2019: While almost all households in India (as high as 97% according to National Family Health Survey 4 – 2015-16) have washbasins, only richer and more educated households in urban areas use soap to wash hands ...
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The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare released the result of the Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey, conducted during 2016-18 in 30 states and Union Territories with technical support of the UNICEF ...
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Technology must be used for providing affordable solutions for saving lives at places that lack proper medical facilities, says Arun Agarwal, developer of a low-cost portable device to monitor the unborn babies and mothers-to-be ...
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The Women and Child Development Ministry (MWCD) is pushing for agri-nutrition to increase efforts for better agricultural practices for nutritional crops in order to encourage diet diversity at the local levels ...
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Stand-up comedian and YouTube personality Atul Khatri has been working to spread awareness about depression among the youngsters across India and is running an initiative to create ‘mental health warriors’ among youth ...
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One of the easiest solutions to beat depression is ‘YESS’ which stands for Yoga, Exercise, Sleep and doing something for the community, suggests Dr Harish Shetty, Psychiatrist ...
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World Mental Health Day: Filmmaker Imtiaz Ali says "The brain is very much part of our body, if there are issues in our brain then we need to talk about it" ...
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Social media by itself is not harmful to health, however, how the person uses and perceives the role of social media in their life is important, said expert ...
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While it's easy to find any mental disorder in adults, for parents or caregivers it's hard to find out if their child has been having any kind of stress, anxiety or depression, say experts ...
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The study looked at the relationship between maternal stress and brain development in 251 premature kids ...
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One of the unhealthiest state of the country, Madhya Pradesh despite improvements is failing to keep pace with the overall country’s performance in reducing mortality, malnutrition and anaemia among children ...
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