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Why India’s Healthcare Trends In 2016 Do Not Bode Well For The Future

India should not persevere with its focus on privatising healthcare or relying on health insurance.The image that would haunt me for a long time from this year is that of D...

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MY STORY: Why I Started A Petition Against A Ban On Emergency Contraceptive Pills In Tamil Nadu

I did not take my friends’ occasional rants about the unavailability of emergency contraceptive pills in Chennai seriously, until I set out to look for it myself. I l...

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Health Ministry's Own Survey Projects Bleak Picture

A far from healthy picture emerges of India when one carefully analyses data on country's health that was released by the
government. While there have been gains in th...

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The Rights Of The Terminally Ill

The draft Bill fails to protect the constitutional rights of patients who wish to have their decisions about medical treatment respected. Euthanasia has always been fraught...

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World Health Day To Focus On Food Safety This Year

Food poisoning and diarrhoeal infection are the two leading causes of food-borne illnesses in India. Moreover, due to lack of laboratories and shortage of manpower, many ou...

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10 Million Women To Receive Vital Health Education Through Mobiles By Imimobile, BBC Media Action And The Gates Foundation.

IMImobile, which helps companies to engage with their customers via mobile technologies, has teamed up with BBC Media Action, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates...

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India Still Has A High Rate Of Malnutrition, Reveals New National Health Survey

Malnutrition in India is still high and the number of malnourished children in West Bengal is more than it was a decade back, according to the fourth National Family Health...

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Government Ropes In Amitabh Bachchan To Create More Awareness On Hepatitis B

In an attempt to boost the ministry of health and family welfare's awareness campaign on Hepatitis B, it launched 75-second videos of?Bollywood? superstar Amitabh Bachchan?...

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Tracking The Cold Chain: Improving Vaccine Systems In India

At a two-day training in Madhya Pradesh, healthcare workers were introduced to eVIN, an electronic vaccination intelligence network system that will enable healthcare worke...

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Tracking The Cold Chain: Improving Vaccine Systems In India-

At a two-day training in Madhya Pradesh, healthcare workers were introduced to eVIN, an electronic vaccination intelligence network system that will enable healthcare worke...

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