Health Check - Page 29
In India's Poorest State, A Pilot Project Succeeds In Reducing...
Bokaro, Jharkhand: A frail young nursing mother Purnima Devi, 25, clutched her emaciated baby boy, 21-month-old Gorango...
Fighting Drug-Resistant TB: What India Can Learn From South Africa’s Successes
Johannesburg, Cape Town, Khayelitsha (South Africa): In July 2017, 40-year-old Noludwe Mabandlela, a single mother of...
Vaishali Shah, Struck By Drug-Resistant TB, Petitioned The PM's Office For A Drug That Saved Her. Others Died Waiting For It
Mumbai, New Delhi: Wearing a face mask and weighing just 32 kg, 39-year-old Vaishali Shah appeared more a lanky teenager...
After 4 Years Of Swachh Bharat, Open Defecation Down 26 Percentage Points, But Toilet Use Does Not Match Construction Spree
New Delhi: More Indians living in villages owned a latrine in 2018 than four years ago, yet 44% of them still defecate...
Budget 2019 May Pump Money Into Ayushman Bharat But Bleed Other Core Health Schemes
New Delhi: Health seemed to have finally become a part of India’s political agenda when Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya...
Do More Detected Cases Mean Leprosy Is Making A Comeback In India? Experts, Government Differ
New Delhi: Leprosy is back in India. Health officials and activists celebrated 13 years ago when India announced that...
How A Healthy Gut Can Be A Bulwark Against India’s Lifestyle-Disease Epidemic
Mount Abu (Rajasthan): Processed food, an overly sanitised environment and an urban lifestyle can reduce beneficial...
BJP States Most Resistant To Eggs In Mid-Day Meals, Cite Vegetarian Sentiments
New Delhi: Swati Narayan, a research scholar and an activist with the Right To Food campaign, recently mapped the...
