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India Now Has To Choose Between Two Disease Estimates
New Delhi: Did diarrhoeal diseases rank third or seventh in India’s disease-burden ranking for 2017? Where do...
90% Of India’s Poorest Have No Health Insurance
New Delhi: Only about 10% of the poorest one-fifth of Indians in rural (10.2%) and urban India (9.8%) had any form of...
Maternity Benefits: What Centre Can Learn From Tamil Nadu, Odisha
New Delhi: Up to 88% of eligible women in the country did not receive benefits under the Centre’s maternity benefits...
Jharkhand, Rajasthan Villages Falter On Adolescent Health Facilities, Awareness: Social Audits
New Delhi: Seven of 85 villages audited in Jharkhand and Rajasthan had adolescent-friendly health services, 11 provided...
India’s Burn-Care Management Suffers From Lack Of Data, Beds, Trained Medics
Ujjain: It was April 14, 2019, the day of Vaisakhi that marks the spring harvest festival in large parts of India....
‘Few Inspectors, No Records, Poor Communication Mar India’s Drug Regulation’
New Delhi: The “pharmacy to the world” is besieged by problems, a new report says. Central and state governments have...
More Than Half Of India’s Drug-Resistant TB Cases Remain Undetected
New Delhi: Tuberculosis (TB) cases in India declined by 1.8% from 2.74 million in 2017 to 2.69 million in 2018, but the...

Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act Failing Women Who Need It The Most
Mumbai: A minor rape victim was forced to give birth to the child of her rapist after the Madras High Court denied her...





