Scroll How Aadhaar is making it harder for Indian women to access their maternity benefits scroll.in - Reetika Khera In June 2019, we conducted a survey of 706 mothers in one district each in six states of India. We found serious concerns with the implementation of …
Scroll Indian states are failing to help mothers – and UP is the worst scroll.in - Aarefa Johari Indian states are severely neglecting the health of pregnant and lactating rural women, and Uttar Pradesh is the poorest performer. A new survey of …
Scroll In charts: Eggs could help reduce India’s chronic child malnutrition, a new survey shows scroll.in - Nithya Subramanian A new survey by the Ministry of Health has found distressingly high levels of malnutrition among Indian children and adolescents. Only 6.4% of …
ScrollGorakhpur Gorakhpur child deaths: Probe absolves Dr Kafeel Khan of all charges, praises him for saving lives scroll.in - Shoaib Daniyal Two years after the deaths of 63 children in Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical College, a state government probe has absolved Dr Kafeel Khan of all charges …
ScrollHealth Care To achieve universal healthcare, countries need to strengthen their public sector scroll.in - Sulakshana Nandi Universal health coverage has dominated the global health discourse over the last decade. The political declaration of the United Nations High Level …
ScrollWomen's News Tamil Nadu’s sex ratio mystery: Why is the number of female babies dropping in some districts? scroll.in - S Senthalir On the morning of April 23, health ministry officials raided a small diagnostic clinic in Srimushnam town in Tamil Nadu’s Cuddalore district and …
ScrollMalnutrition The X factor: Teenage pregnancies are large silent contributors to childhood malnutrition in India scroll.in - Nayantara Narayanan India has an enormous problem of malnourishment, being home to almost 25% of the world’s malnourished children. A new study shows that child …
ScrollDiabetes As diabetes spreads among India’s urban poor, it could be pushing them over the edge scroll.in - Aarefa Johari On June 23, the narrow streets of Mehrauli’s ward number two in Delhi were deserted. A day before that, residents were shocked to find that their …
ScrollJohnson & Johnson Child rights body asks Johnson & Johnson to withdraw baby shampoo containing ‘harmful chemicals’ scroll.in - Scroll Staff The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has directed Johnson & Johnson to immediately withdraw a batch of its baby shampoo that …
ScrollStudents Mumbai Adivasi doctor’s suicide highlights extreme casteism in India’s medical colleges scroll.in - Nayantara Narayanan The suicide of a young doctor in Mumbai has opened a debate on the entrenched problem of caste discrimination, harassment and resentment over …
ScrollMumbai Medical student’s suicide: Mumbai Police arrest one of the three accused doctors, say reports scroll.in - Scroll Staff The Mumbai Police on Tuesday made its first arrest in connection with the death of Dr Payal Tadvi, The Hindu reported. Tadvi committed suicide on May …
ScrollPhysiology Medical student’s suicide: Two health networks demand action in the ‘institutional murder’ scroll.in - Scroll Staff Two health networks on Tuesday demanded justice for Dr Payal Tadvi, a medical doctor from an Adivasi community who committed suicide on May 22 due to …
ScrollAging The man whose body is growing old too fast is helping us find a way to slow ageing scroll.in - Erika Hayasaki, Mosaic Nobuaki Nagashima was in his mid-20s when he began to feel like his body was breaking down. He was based in Hokkaido, the northernmost prefecture of …
ScrollObesity India simply does not have the resources to deal with the aftermath of childhood obesity scroll.in - Kamal Kumar Mahawar In scientific terms, all of the obesity is an enigma, but it is particularly difficult to understand when you come across an obese seven or …
ScrollThe Brain Finding new answers for memory loss with new tools to look at the brain scroll.in - Elizabeth Svoboda As he neared his 50s, Anthony Andrews realised that living inside his own head felt different than it used to. The signs were subtle at first. “My …
ScrollHpv How Rwanda could be the first country to wipe out cervical cancer scroll.in - Sophie Cousins, Mosaic Girls began queuing at their local school with their friends, waiting for their names to be called. Many were apprehensive. After all, most of them …
ScrollBipolar Disorder “The digital world feels more real to me”: A bipolar mother finds support online scroll.in - Rae Rose When I search for “bipolar mother” on Google Images, I find a lot of women with their heads in their hands, their crying children in the corner. These …
ScrollDengue Fever Interview: Why a safe and effective dengue vaccine is proving elusive scroll.in - Nayantara Narayanan The United States Food and Drug Administration last week approved restricted use of Dengvaxia. But the dengue vaccine, manufactured by Sanofi, has a …
ScrollNarendra Modi ‘Baseless allegation’: Hospital denies PM’s claim that it turned away patient with Ayushman card scroll.in - Scroll Staff A hospital in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, on Sunday refuted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claim that it had refused to treat a patient carrying the …
ScrollPhysiology Nigerian man’s Twitter complaint sparks discussion on lack of support for medical tourists in India scroll.in - Nayantara Narayanan On April 17, a Nigerian man named Tobi Ajisegbede wrote a long Twitter thread about the death of his mother, alleging it was caused by medical …
ScrollIcon version of the Flipboard logoShampoo Johnson & Johnson denies its baby shampoo in India contains ‘harmful chemicals’ scroll.in - Scroll Staff American pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson has rejected the findings of a Rajasthan government laboratory that its baby shampoo, which is a …
ScrollUniversity of Western Australia ‘If the land is sick, you are sick’: An Aboriginal approach to mental health in times of drought scroll.in - Georgina Kenyon, Mosaic A coal truck roars past, stirring up red dust that blows over the famished cattle and sheep lying in grassless paddocks. The carcasses of dead …
ScrollMalnutrition Interview: Parliamentarians should be made accountable for child malnutrition in India scroll.in - Rohit Inani In March, a study titled The State of Nutrition Among Children in Parliamentary Constituencies of India provided constituency-wise data for child …
ScrollSuicide Suicides among Northen Ireland’s ceasefire babies tells us how trauma passes through generations scroll.in - Lyra McKee, Mosaic For once, Big Gay Mick wasn’t saying much. “I don’t know. We just seen his stepdad getting out of a taxi at the top of the street and he told …
ScrollFood Rising food poverty in rich countries is having lifelong effects on children scroll.in - Chris Baraniuk, Mosaic Kerry Wright didn’t feel hungry. Not in the way you might expect. Her tummy grumbled, yes, she could hear it. She just couldn’t feel it. She called …
ScrollPregnancy This drug can stop mothers bleeding to death in childbirth – so why can’t more women get it? scroll.in - Samira Shackle, Mosaic Twenty-eight weeks into her first pregnancy, Rabia’s worst fears were realised. She went into labour, and the baby was stillborn. The bleeding …
ScrollClinical Trials India’s new clinical trial rules weaken safety nets for participants scroll.in - S Srinivasan On March 19, the government notified the New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019, which makes it very clear that it intends to promote clinical …
ScrollShampoo Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo found to have ‘harmful ingredients’, says Rajasthan drug controller scroll.in - Scroll Staff Rajasthan’s drug controller has found formaldehyde in two batches of Johnson & Johnson’s baby shampoo, and has warned against their consumption, The …
ScrollPhysiology Only a strong public health sector can ensure fair prices and quality care at private hospitals scroll.in - Soham D Bhaduri The Indian government is making a rapid shift from being a provider of healthcare to being merely a financier. This presents two formidable concerns. …
