Health - Page 27
In India's Suicide Country, Catching Mental Illness Before It Is Too...
Farm widows Baby Kinake (left) and Shobha Vetti (right) with their local mental health activist, Shobha Kinake (extreme...
India’s Fight Against Anaemia Is Picking Up Pace, States Have To Do More
When Khusbu Chaudhari, 24, seven months pregnant, first came to Ballabgarh Government Hospital, she was moderately...
Why Indian Pharmacies Are Reluctant To Stock Abortion Pills
Mumbai: Medical abortion drugs are not available at retail pharmacies in Rajasthan, a study released in August 2019 has...
Flu-Like Epidemic Could Kill 80 Mn Globally, Wipe Out 5% Global GDP: New Report
Source: A World At Risk, released by Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, convened by World Health Organization & World...
Why India Is Likely To Miss Its Nutrition Targets For 2022
New Delhi: At its current rate of progress, the National Nutrition Mission (NNM) cannot meet its 2022 targets to reduce...
47% Of India’s Poorest Children, 30% Of Richest Not Fully Immunised
Mumbai: Nearly 47% of India’s poorest children are not fully immunised, 17 percentage points more than the richest...
In A Nation Awash In Eggs, A State Struggles To Get Them To Children
Rukmini Behra, 48, an anganwadi helper in Saradhapur village in Angul, Odisha prepares boiled eggs for three- to...
Feeding Mothers, Fighting Malnutrition: The East Godavari Experience
Ushasri with her three-month-old son and anganwadi worker T Vijaya. Ushashri’s first son was 2.5 kg at birth, while her...
