Health & Sanitation

The Telangana Forest Department and the Apollo Foundations’ Total Health, a CSR initiative by the Apollo Hospitals Group, inaugurated a jute packaging workshop in Amrabad, Telangana. The workshop, situated in Mannanur, a tribal settlement just outside the entry to the forest, is a part of its skill development programme to empower the women of the...

In low- and middle-income nations, maternal fatalities after caesarean sections are 100 times higher than in high-income ones, with up to a third of all newborns dying, according to a review published in The Lancet. The review titled 12 million pregnancies has considered 196 studies from 67 low- and middle-income countries. From 1990 to 2017,...

The woes of LGBTQ people in India are countless. They are subjected to discrimination all through their lives in terms of employment opportunities, education, healthcare and many other basic human rights. This leads to their marginalisation and exclusion from mainstream society. In order to address some of these issues, several policies have been designed to...

Life has its ups and downs. While you should always hope for the best, you must prepare for unexpected illnesses along the way. You never know when a life-threatening emergency can knock on your door and cripple your health. Chronic illnesses, especially critical diseases like cancer and stroke need immense medical and financial support. As...

Pfizer has announced that its support to Tata Trusts Cancer Care programme since 2020 has helped in enrolling and screening 70,000 people for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and Cancer across Assam, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh. Pfizer partnered with Tata Trusts’ Special Purpose Vehicle, Alamelu Charitable Foundation (ACF) for their Cancer Care Programme to help set...

The ways of engaging with your employees today is very different from what it used to be before the pandemic. Work is distributed amongst workforces spread across geographies in a hybrid mode – from homes and offices, where working within the traditional office timings is no longer prevalent. Working hours have got extended in...

By Dr. Swati Mahajan and Akshat Garg In 2019, the World Health Organisation (WHO) agreed on an ambitious Five Year Strategic Plan known as the ‘Triple Billion Targets’. Under this initiative, by the year 2023, the WHO proposes to achieve three targets: - 1 billion more people have access to universal health coverage - 1 billion more...

Aragen Life Sciences, formerly known as GVK Bio, has donated a fully-equipped ambulance to the Government of Telangana (GoT) as part of its CSR activities. A flag off event of the vehicle was done in the presence of Hon. Minister for Health, Medical and Family Welfare & Finance Sri. T. Harish Rao garu today. Ramesh...

India is considered a diabetes capital of the world. Some 77 million live with diabetes, an equal number are said to be undiagnosed and a similar number pre-diabetic. In metros 3 out of 4 adults are either diabetic or pre-diabetic. Indians get diabetes 10 years earlier than people in the West, in their 30s/40s. Since...

This World Cancer Day, AstraZeneca, a science-led biopharmaceutical company, and Plan India, an NGO striving to improve the lives of millions of children and young people, signed an MoU to expand its ‘Young Health Programme’ (YHP) in the state of Karnataka after tremendous success over the past 10 years in Delhi and Tamil Nadu. Non-communicable...

Cancer is the second deadliest disease which can end with the loss of life, as per the World Health Organization. In order to spread awareness about the life-threatening disease among the people of India, November 7 is celebrated as National Cancer Awareness Day in the country, every year since 2014. Cancer Statistics in India According to...

Over the next few decades, the global incidence of cancer is expected to skyrocket. This trend is being driven primarily by an increase in cancers caused by lifestyle choices. Healthy living reflects positive changes that must be a part of and should be an ongoing practise of our lifestyle, by identifying areas for improvement...