More Than One Million TB Patients Lack Adequate Nutrition
Puni Garasia (right) sits with her mother in Sirohi, southwest Rajasthan. Puni, 14, a tribal, weighed barely 20 kg when...
Indians, Alert To Dangers Of High Salt Intake, Are Modifying Their Diets
Indians aware of the dangers of excessive salt intake are modifying their diets unlike other international communities...
Eat A Billion Bacteria A Day For Better Health
Probiotics--good gut bacteria typically found in enriched foods--have shown immense potential to fight diarrhoea, a...
How Delayed Pregnancies Beat Sterilisation As A Family Planning Tool
In 2007, Tanaji Jadhav (left) signed up for the Second Honeymoon Package, a conditional cash transfer scheme piloted in...
How Incurable Japanese Encephalitis Threatens Emerging India
Jayanta Potshangbam, a junior resident medical officer at the Shija Hospital & Research Institute, Imphal, Manipur,...
A Millets Revival Could Solve India's Malnutrition Problem, Benefit Farmers
A farmer checks millet crops in his field on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. In the 1960s, the...
How India Tackles Adverse Drug Reactions--By Ignoring Data
A 17-year-old Kolkata boy was prescribed Dapsone, an antibiotic, for a skin problem, and developed severe, potentially...
How 1 Sugary Drink Daily Boosts India’s Death Rate
Sugar-sweetened beverages account for every one in 200 deaths caused by India’s rising tide of cardiovascular disease,...
