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National Cancer Awareness Day – Fighting the Disease on Combat Mode

According to India Against Cancer, in India, one woman dies of cervical cancer every 8 minutes. For every 2 women newly diagnosed with breast cancer, one woman dies of it. Around 2.25 million people are estimated living with cancer disease in India. Over 11, 57,294 lakh new cancer patients are registered every year. About 784,821...

CSR News – Ingersoll Rand Partners with Smile Foundation

Ingersoll Rand India, as part of its community relations initiative, has joined hands with Smile Foundation to facilitate healthcare services for economically disadvantaged people in Naroda and neighbouring areas in Ahmedabad. Ingersoll Rand is supporting the ‘Smile on Wheels’ initiative that targets mobile healthcare vans to deliver professional healthcare services at the doorsteps of 4...

Scare Ensues As Public Health Emergency Declared In Delhi

The blanket of haze over Delhi continues to thicken with the national capital's pollution levels increasing overnight by around 50 points, taking the overall air quality index to 459 on Friday morning. A Supreme Court-mandated panel on Friday declared a public health emergency in the Delhi-NCR region and banned construction activity till November 5 as...

धुंध, धुंआ और धुआंधार ज़हर

आंखों में जलन, सीने में चुभन, सांस लेने में तकलीफ कुछ ऐसी ही परेशानियों से समूची दिल्ली जूझ रही है, आलम ये है कि दिल्ली मानो गैस चेंबर बन गयी है, कारण है दिल्ली का प्रदूषण। पिछले एक हफ़्ते से दिल्ली में प्रदूषण का स्तर इस कदर बढ़ा हुआ है कि सरकारों द्वारा उठाये...

World Vegan Day – Going Vegan For One Day A Week

Veganism is a growing trend among the millennials as well as influencers across the world. With all of its health and environment benefits, it has been among the most acceptable food and lifestyle choice for a large number of people. Considering its role in animal welfare and environment conservation, November 1st of every year is...

Ethical Dilemma in Growing Organoids

On Monday, October 21, at Neuroscience 2019, the Society for Neuroscience’s 49th annual meeting, held in Chicago, U.S., two neuroscientists warned the gathering that fellow scientists are “perilously close” to crossing the ethical red line of growing mini-brains or organoids in the laboratory that can perceive or feel things. Organoids are a group of cells...

CSR Campaign on Childhood Pneumonia in India

Pneumonia is a disease of the lungs responsible for more deaths of children under the age of 5 than any other infectious disease. India has the highest number of childhood pneumonia cases in the world, both in terms of morbidity and mortality. Around 1.5 lakh children lose their life due to pneumonia each year...

Genome Sequencing in India

It has been rightly said that ‘Prevention is better than cure.’  Especially in the context of healthcare. Technological advancement is taking slow but sure steps towards this ideal. Research laboratories working under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has announced the completion of genome sequencing of 1008 Indian individuals representing diverse ethnic groups...

Urban Food Insecurity Deals With Issues Beyond Food

Urban poverty and poor diets are intricately linked with one another. With most of the world’s population living in or considering moving to the urban centres, it is imperative to understand the reasons behind a lack of access to healthy diets. The problems of food insecurity and malnutrition are driven by both the income and...

The Triple Burden of Malnutrition

A recently released Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (CNNS) survey shows that 35% of Indian children under five are stunted, 17% are wasted and 33 per cent are underweight. Only 42% of children (6 to 23 months) are fed at an adequate frequency and only 21% are fed an adequately diverse diet. Timely complementary feeding...

Technology Empowering The Visually Impaired

Visual impairment is one of the worst forms of disability, which causes the individual to be chronically dependent on someone else. It is very difficult to cope with this form of disability especially for the poor people as they cannot afford to equip the visually impaired person with required training and care which could...

Micron Technology and The Akshaya Patra Foundation Announce Strategic Partnership

The Micron Foundation, the non-profit arm of Micron Technology, is pleased to announce its partnership with The Akshaya Patra Foundation to provide wholesome mid-day meals to children in Hyderabad and Bengaluru. Micron will be contributing $100,000 towards Akshaya Patra’s endeavour to serve hot, nutritious and hygienic meals to 5,000 children in Government and Government-aided...

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