Health Check - Page 27
How Pharmacies Can Help India’s Battle Against TB
Mumbai: Pharmacies trained in tuberculosis (TB) screening and doctor referrals can significantly improve the detection...
‘For Children’s Nutrition, Mother’s Education More Important Than Family Wealth’
New Delhi: Cutting across the wealth divide, more than a quarter of Indian children under two years of age who were...
Terror Accounts For 0.007% Of Indian Deaths, Ill-Health 90%
New Delhi: “One has to be alive to be a patriot,” former Indian health secretary K Sujatha Rao wrote on Twitter on May...
Assam’s World-Famous Tea Gardens Are Deadly For Pregnant Women
Bilasi Urau (left), 32, a worker in Assam’s tea plantations, is afraid to get pregnant. “We all know someone who has...
How Karnataka Is Improving Children’s Health By Focusing On Mothers
Ballari, Tumkur and Mysuru: Rekha M, 30, is six months into her second pregnancy and visits the Shankarbande anganwadi...
India’s Infant Mortality Down 42% in 11 Years Yet Higher Than Global Average
New Delhi: India has reduced its infant mortality rate (IMR) by 42% over 11 years--from 57 per 1,000 live births in 2006...
In Rajasthan, India’s First Right-To-Healthcare Law Takes Shape
New Delhi and Jaipur: The image of a tribal who carried the corpse of his dead wife for 12 km after a local government...
Why India Must Move Policy Away From Population Control
New Delhi: As India prepares to become the world’s most-populous country by 2024, family planning--the ‘Family Welfare’...
