Health & Sanitation

Pneumonia is a disease of the lungs responsible for more deaths of children under the age of 5 than any other infectious disease. 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...

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...

A recently released Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (CNNS) survey shows that 35% of Indian children under five are stunted, 17% are wasted and 33...

Visual impairment is one of the worst forms of disability, which causes the individual to be chronically dependent on someone else. It is very...

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...

India has made tremendous progress in terms of financial inclusion, cleanliness, technology, women empowerment and foreign policy in the last few years. The combined...

Medical abortion (MA) has emerged as the preferred method of abortion care in India. In fact, about 81% of the 15.6 million annual abortions...

The World Bank estimates that more than a fifth of all communicable diseases in India (21%) are caused by contaminated water. According to a...

Radhika Joshi lost a loved one to kidney failure. That is when she realized that every year about 5 lakh individuals lose their lives...

Access to vital health products, in India and around the world, is hampered by the last mile problem: the difficulty of matching the supply...

By Dr Bharat Champaneria, Kaka Ba Hospital, CSR initiative of Cadilla Pharmaceuticals. Ingestion of bulk drugs by the rising demands in the global pharmaceutical markets...