World Toilet Day: Flush away inertia and ignorance
Almost 2 billion people use excrementally polluted water, which poses not only a global health risk, but also flushes away […]
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“10 million child deaths due to lack of toilets”
In a world in which 14 percent of the population in the 21st century still defecate outdoors, children remain among […]
IT Smoothens Health Services
IT can do things for the health department that havent been done or imagined before, says Sujata Saunik, Principal Secretary, […]
Health Sector Gets IT Push in Kerala
Kerala has the advantage of better human resources in numbers and skills in comparison to other states, and we continue […]
Urgent need to provide community-based services for de-addiction: Pranab
There is an urgent need to provide community-based services for the identification, counselling and de-addiction of drug addicts along with […]
Harsh Vardhan for new energy into Health for All; more inclusivity soonÂ
Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, has asked for thorough streamlining of systems in the distribution […]
Pehel Birthing a New Hope
Dr Jyoti Vajpayee, Global Technical Advisor, Population Services International (PSI) speaks about the significant programmes that they have taken up […]
India to launch integrated health scheme
An overarching National Health Mission, covering both rural and urban areas, is underway to extend medical facilities to the last mile
EFC Approves Rs 20,000 Crore National Urban Health Mission
To deal with medicare challenges in rural and urban areas the Government of India has approved the ambitious National Urban […]
PharmaSecure Plans to Launch An m-Health Platform
Cashing on the m-health trend PharmaSecure is all set to launch psConnectTM-a mobile health (mhealth) platform that enables a variety […]
Johns Hopkins Launches Center for Population Health IT
Johns Hopkins has launched a new center focusing on population health IT to both improve and expand the use of […]
Bihar State Government Signs MoU with US Firm
The Bihar state government has signed MoU with EngenderHealth, a leading US reproductive health organization. The objective is to give […]
Technology that Cares
Today, healthcare mostly follows a remedial rather than a preventive approach Sonal Pahwa, Associate Director-Healthcare, Technopak Technology has the potential to […]
