Countries in the Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus have made significant progress in working toward some of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but efforts to achieve others have slowed or even regressed.
According to Robert Bullard, a professor at Georgia’s Clark Atlanta University and the director of that university’s Environmental Justice Resource Center, it is always the poor and the vulnerable who reside near land fills and thus suffer from them. This has something to do with institutional racism since these people are minorities
The credibility of genetic screening, which is being thought of as a panacea for the older women opting for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment to have a child, is now under threat.
Researchers from the University of South Australia have developed a garment with integrated electronic technology, which enables it to monitor the wearer’s cardiac and respiratory functions, without the tangle of any wires.
A US$30 million project that will use cutting-edge brain imaging technologies to map the circuitry of the healthy adult human brain.
GAO says DOD and VA are making progress on interoperability, but management improvements are needed.
A recent findings from a national survey in India by Healis-Sekhsaria Institute of Public Health, an organisation work in the field of public health in India and other developing countries reveals that exposure to mass media may impact the use of tobacco in India which is a major source of illness and death.
World Health Organisation has declared Artemis Health Institute (AHI), a multi-specialty hospital in Gurgaon, as the winner for its Asia Pacific Hand Hygiene Excellence Award for the year 2010.
As is well known, income or consumption poverty is often used as shorthand to capture economic wellbeing of people. However, there is almost a consensus view among social scientists by now that such a view of poverty is too narrow and it is absolutely necessary to go beyond hunger and malnutrition and include several other features in conceptualising poverty, such as deprivation (or poor access) in terms of clothing, shelter, basic social services including primary health care, sanitation, education, shelter etc., political powerlessness, socio-cultural marginalisation and exclusion, among others. By any reckoning, development deficits in India are huge in terms of attaining the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals).
Electronic health records can help improve health outcomes for patients at high risk of kidney disease.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the head of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) while speaking about the World Population Day, has called for greater participation by men in maternal health to reduce the number of women who die each day in childbirth and to ensure safe motherhood.
Yet another initiative of the erstwhile DMK regime, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa announced an improved medical insurance cover under which a family can derive a maximum benefit of Rs. four lakh for four years.
Philips, a leading health & well-being company, today unveiled
