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...
Punjab Drug Addiction: 16% Or--As Dy CM Says--0.06%?
A still from the recently released film, Udta Punjab, said to be a portrayal of Punjab's drug menace. A 2015 study by...
Unless India Delivers, World Won’t Be Leprosy Free
For three years, Uttar Pradesh farmhand Pradeep Kumar, 24, has been treated for a disease that India largely eliminated...
Chubby, Affluent: India’s New Face of Malnutrition
Broadening girths are expanding India’s battle against malnutrition, a new Indian study has revealed, setting off a host...
In 5 Years, Threat Of Drug-Resistant Superbugs Doubles
A 72-year-old woman in Bengaluru consulted a hospital physician about a severe skin infection and fever. She had...
