Health

WHO/UNAIDS Launch New Standards To Improve Adolescent Care

6 OCTOBER 2015 GENEVA – New Global standards for quality health-care services for adolescents developed by WHO and UNAIDS aim to help countries improve th...

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Bridging The Digital Divide: UP’s Frontline Health Workers Go ‘Smart’

LUCKNOW: In an effort to strengthen data-keeping of rural health indices in UP, the state government will train over 12,000 frontline health workers to report, in real-time, r...

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Why India Needs A Universal Immunisation Programme To Boost Its Healthcare.

As India embarks on its promise of universal health coverage (UHC), one should look at the healthcare system in a country like Cuba. Despite limited resources and economic san...

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Nadia In West Bengal Goes Churu Way, Achieves Open Defecation-Free Tag

The Centre has lauded the involvement of government officials in successfully implementing sanitation programmes across states. A recent communiqué issued by the Minist...

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Jackie Collins Leaves Final Message To Mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Author Jackie Collins, who died last month of breast cancer, has left a lasting legacy to fellow breast cancer sufferers. Before she died, Collins penned a message to her fans...

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Award Raises Vaccine Awareness

West Medical Editor Cathy O’Leary wins WA Media Award for moving stories about the tragic whooping cough death of baby Riley Hughes. Read More at  www.au.news...

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Still More Evidence That Antioxidant Supplements Actually Increase Cancer Risk

Antioxidants have been pitched from grocery store shelves, vitamin supplement labels, and by nutritionist sketchballs for as long as I can remember. Indeed, the basic idea tra...

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Kristen Bell: We’re So Close To Ending Polio

When Kristen Bell found out that polio is still an issue for young children around the world, she knew she had to get involved. “It’s a viral disease and it mostly...

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FIGO Calls For Treatment Developed At Wayne State To Fight Worldwide Preterm Birth.

Recommendations to reduce the rates of preterm birth developed at the Wayne State University School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health’s Perinatology Rese...

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Investing In Health Workforces: The Path Towards The Sdgs Starts Here

Last month marked a transition from one era of global health and development to the next. Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals were agreed by 193 heads of st...

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HUSAIN’S JOURNEY THROUGH HIS MUSES

That Search For A Muse: M.F. Husain’s Lifelong Quest for Inspiration: Khalid Moham...

March 24 2026

WAR AND PEACE IN CONFLICT

In an age of shifting power, contested truths, and invisible wars, this reflective essay...

March 23 2026

GUJARATI THEATRE PASSION AND PERFORMANCE

Actor Leena Shah reflects on her enduring journey through Gujarati theatre, sharing insi...

March 22 2026