Prevailing social norms, such as early marriage, teenage pregnancies, unsafe abortions compromise nutritional and health status amongst young girls and also their infants, writes Poonam Muttreja
According to Neeraj Jain, Country Director, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), India, there is a need to look at preventive and curative measures, where...
In order to ensure community mobilisation and bolster people’s participation in tackling malnutrition in the country, every year, September month is celebrated as POSHAN Maah
Made out of portable shipping containers, the new air conditioned and modular mohalla clinics take half as much space as the earlier model and thus can...
The research on 1,276 patients from Wuhan, China, shows that around one in three people still experienced shortness of breath after 12 months, while lung impairments...
Researchers have discovered that human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs)- short strings of sugar molecules abundant in breast milk- can help prevent infections in human cells
The R-value for Covid of Kerala, which has the highest number of active cases in the country, is now below 1 after a gap of seven...
The team at University of Pennsylvania in the US noted that current Covid-19 tests are limited by the tradeoff between accuracy and the time it takes...
According to Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director WHO South-East Asia Region, the year 2020 saw a dip in coverage of childhood immunisation programmes globally and...
The first hour of the newborn should be considered as the golden hour to make sure that essential newborn care services including breastfeeding is provided to...
The researchers noted that some adults experience a prolonged illness after COVID-19, described as long-COVID, where symptoms persist for four weeks or longer, but it is...
According to Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Virendra Kumar, a total of 58,098 manual scavengers have been identified across the country
34-year-old Dr Swaminathan Chandramouli runs “Doctor on Wheels”, a mobile-healthcare initiative to provide at-home medical services to senior citizens in...
70-year-old Dr Arunoday Mondal, a Padma awardee has been providing healthcare services for free to rural Sundarbans for over two...
Padma awardee Dr. Neelam Kler highlighted the importance of having a holistic healthcare approach to reduce neonatal and maternal mortality...
Dr Indira Chakravarty, who is a Public Health Specialist, said that the Banega Swasth India campaign has helped people understand...
Currently working as the Chairman of the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology and AIG Hospitals in Hyderabad, Padma awardee Dr Nageshwar...
