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Elderly with dementia at risk for inappropriate medications

Dementia is a syndrome characterized by deterioration in memory, thinking, behavior and daily functioning.

08 Oct 2017 10:03 AM

Children lining up for relief supplies at the Kutupalong refugee camp for Rohingyas who have fled to Bangladesh to escape violence in Myanmar. (Photo: AFP)

Bangladesh eases charity access to Rohingya camps

Authorities briefly ordered MSF, ACF and Muslim Aid to stop providing aid to the Rohingya in 2012.

27 Sep 2017 3:26 AM

WHO warns of cholera threat in Bangladesh Rohingya camps

The camps also face dire shortages of food and medicine in what has quickly become one of the world’s largest refugee settlements.

26 Sep 2017 6:07 AM

Superbug's spread to Vietnam threatens malaria control

The drug resistance of these bugs is a public health emergency that must be treated urgently.

21 Sep 2017 10:07 AM

Fiction can become a reality — once the imagination and interest of the kids is ignited.

To keep our kids safe, all have a role to play

Crimes against children increased from 14,975 in 2005 to 94,172 in 2015.

15 Sep 2017 3:57 AM

In a major goof up, in the Registration of Births and Deaths in Delhi 2016 report, 11 cases of deaths were assigned to polio and two to smallpox. (Representational image)

Delhi: Report claims ‘smallpox’ killed two people

AAP government seeks clarification from civic bodies, which compiled the report.

05 Aug 2017 1:17 AM

he doctor population ratio for India is less than the World Health Organisation prescribed standard of 1:1,000, the Lok Sabha was informed on Friday.

Government: Less than one doctor for every 1000 Indians

The minister said emphasis of the government was to increasing the number of doctors in the country to improve the doctor population ratio.

21 Jul 2017 11:55 PM

The government has opened 25 Kangaroo Care Lounges across the state. (Photo: Pixabay)

Uttar Pradesh promotes ‘kangaroo care’ for infants

The importance of KMC in the context of UP has been studied by an organisation called Community Empowerment Lab (CEL).

08 Jun 2017 2:54 AM

The NGO has undertaken a survey to estimate the usage of dental amalgam in the unorganised sector practicing dentistry in Delhi.

Mercury use by dentists hazardous

While the presence of mercury in the patient leads to mercury poisoning, there is also a chance of mercury spillage in the clinic.

03 Jun 2017 7:14 AM

On May 24, the Gujarat government initiated its ‘free Gujarat from Malaria by 2022’ campaign in Ahmedabad designating instances of dengue, chikungunya and malaria as notifiable instead of all fever cases. (Photo: File/Representational)

WHO confirms first 3 cases of Zika virus in India

A 34-yr-old female was tested positive for Zika after giving birth to her child with no history of fever during pregnancy or that of travel.

27 May 2017 6:20 PM

Lok Janshakti Party president Ram Vilas Paswan. (PTI)

Centre asks states to ensure clean drinking water for all

The Indian Standard for safe drinking water provides the requirements and the methods of sampling, testing for drinking water.

20 May 2017 1:18 AM

Indonesia has the fifth greatest number of premature births of any nation in the world, at 675,700 a year, according to the World Health Organization. (Photo: AFP)

Free incubators save lives of premature babies in Indonesia

Indonesia has the fifth greatest number of premature births of any nation in the world, at 675,700 a year, according to the WHO.

15 May 2017 10:36 AM

What is needed is an urban air quality management plan with long-term and short-term pollution level goals. (Representational image)

DisCourse: Act now or vanish into thin air

A look at successful examples around the world at a time when increasing levels of pollution offer both challenges & opportunities in India.

07 May 2017 2:26 AM

Women along with Dr Bindeshwar Pathak, founder Sulabh International, carrying drinking water cans labelled as ‘Sulabh jal’ from a water purification plant in Madhusudan Kati. (Photo: G.N. Jha)

Reclaiming water in the arsenic zone

At Madhusudan Kati, the Sulabh Drinking Water project converts pond water into safe drinking water and is sold at 50 paise per litre.

02 May 2017 1:40 AM

Depression needs a non-accepting mind; a mind that denies everything, is always pessimistic. (Photo: AFP)

Mystic Mantra: Living with the ‘black dog’

The modern man is done with the past culture and thinking, he needs something greater and higher to evolve within his being.

18 Apr 2017 12:15 AM

If you feel you are having depression, ‘talk’ to someone you trust or seek professional help. As a family member/friend, let the person in depression be assured that it’s a illness that is curable. (Photo: Pixabay)

Don’t let depression slow you down, seek help

To address issues around prejudice and discrimination and continuing stigma associated with mental illnes.

11 Apr 2017 1:52 AM

Ironically, as per the report released on the eve of World Health Day revealed that 25 per cent of boys and 24 per cent of girls in India feel depressed and hopeless everyday. (Photo: AFP)

25 per cent in 13-15 age group in India are depressed: WHO

WHO said that in 2012 the estimated suicide rate per 1 lakh people in India (15–29 years) was 35.5.

07 Apr 2017 3:14 AM

Governments spent less than $1 billion on tobacco control in 2013-2014, according to a WHO estimate (Photo: AFP)

Smoking to kill 8 million people a year by 2030

It is responsible for likely over $1 trillion in health care costs and lost productivity each year.

10 Jan 2017 9:02 AM

Radiation therapists Rose Wekesa (right) and Bhatt Krishna prepare a patient for a raditation session at the Cancer Care Kenya centre in Nairobi. (Photo: AFP)

Africa battles rise in lifestyle diseases

While the tobacco, alcohol and food industries have had to adapt to growing health-consciousness in the West.

21 Dec 2016 2:45 AM

Sustained and sufficient funding for malaria control is a serious challenge (Photo: AFP)

Lack of funds affecting Malaria progress says WHO

There were still 212 million new cases and 429,000 deaths last year, 43 percent of the population in sub-Saharan Africa weren't protected

13 Dec 2016 9:08 AM

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