Ebola: Australia not to send health workers to Africa
In what can be best described as a damp squib, Australia has assured financial aid — $20 million over the
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Ebola: Australia’s unjustified ban
On Tuesday, Australia became the first developed country to ban travel from the three Ebola-hit West African countries —
Read MoreEditorial: Going by medical evidence
Published in the Hindu on October 29, 2014 The reaction of the Governors of New York and New Jersey
Read MoreEditorial: Loosening tobacco’s deadly grip
A few months after steeply increasing taxes on tobacco products, the government has come up with another much-needed measure to
Read MoreSantitation: Behavioural change critical
That high toilet coverage without concomitant utilisation of the facilities at a very high level and washing hands with soap
Read More‘India has the potential to end all preventable child deaths’
Dr Mickey Chopra, global head of UNICEF’s health programmes explained to me why he was very encouraged by the
Read MoreEditorial: Brightness at night
This year’s (2014) Nobel Prize for physics awarded to Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Nagoya University in Japan and
Read MoreCoverage of antenatal care in India has to be increased: WHO
In 2013, globally, preterm birth complications were responsible for 15 per cent (0.96 million) of deaths in children under
Read MorePreterm births and pneumonia kill most children under five years in India
Of the 6.3 million deaths in children under the age of five years, nearly 44 per cent of deaths
Read More‘There is fantastic immunisation coverage in India’
Both child and maternal mortality have reduced by 50 per cent since 1990, and compared with previous decades, the average
Read MoreIISc: novel membrane filters water, kills bacteria
A low-cost water purification membrane capable of filtering out objects greater than one micron size and also killing E. coli
Read MoreEditorials: Outreach plans for scientists
The decision of the Union Minister of Science and Technology to tap the talent pool of about 6,000 scientists from
Read MoreFastest decline in child mortality rates witnessed
New data released today (September 16) by the United Nations Organisation show that under-five mortality rates have dropped by
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