Health

Babies’ Immune Systems May Stand Down To Let Good Microbes Grow

A newborn’s immune system is deliberately not doing battle with every germ that comes along so that “good” microbes have a chance to settle in, researchers s...

Read More

Yes, Your Toddler Really Is Smarter Than a 5 Year-Old

Very small children can reason abstractly, researchers say, and are able to infer the relationships between objects that elude older children who get caught up on the concrete...

Read More

Born Wet, Human Babies are 75 percent water,then comes drying.

We are an assemblage of water packets, slightly salty, like the sea we came from. As Loren Eiseley put it, we’re a “concentration” of water, “that inde...

Read More

Family’s Heartbreaking Fight for their Son’s Education

Greg’s nightmare scenario of losing Max isn’t hypothetical. Schools have lost him in the past. Once, he escaped through a broken gate and into a field adjacent to ...

Read More

Exposure to particulate matter during pregnancy harms foetus

EXPECTANT mothers living in areas with high traffic density and air pollution levels are likely to have babies with low birth weight. A study conducted in 12 European countrie...

Read More

Lifestyle changes ‘could reduce risk’ of pregnancy complications

A collaboration of investigators from the UK, Ireland and New Zealand say that by changing certain lifestyle factors, such as increasing fruit intake before pregnancy and main...

Read More

The Union Cabinet okays plan to raise cadre for health workers for rural areas

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared the health ministry’s proposal to institute a three-year degree programme for public health professionals. The bachelor in communi...

Read More

Superbugs could erase a century of medical advances, experts warn

Drug-resistant “superbugs” represent one of the gravest threats in the history of medicine, leading experts have warned. Routine operations could become deadly &l...

Read More

India among the world’s 83 countries which do not meet the minimum healthcare workers requirement.

A World Health Organization (WHO) report, recently released in Brazil, says that nearly 83 per cent of physicians in India are males. The report, titled “A Universal Tr...

Read More

UNICEF taking charge to safeguard children in Lebanon from Polio

The launch of an unprecedented mass polio vaccination campaign at Omariya andacross Lebanon is well and truly underway. UNICEF, in collaboration with the Ministry of Public H...

Read More

EK LAMHA ZINDAGI: LOVE BEYOND BORDERS Juhi Babbar

Soni delivers a remarkable solo performance in Ek Lamha Zindagi, directed by Makrand Des...

September 25 2026

SHATRUGHAN SINHA & MENEKA GANDHI LAUNCH TOXIC

Shatrughan Sinha and Maneka Gandhi launched Dr Mukesh Batra’s Toxic in New Delhi, ...

September 24 2026

INDIAN DIASPORA CINEMA SHINES GLOBALLY

The ninth India International Film Festival of Boston concluded with 48 films across 12 ...

September 23 2026