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Last 5 Years, Number Of Undernourished Indians Rises
Health workers measure the height of severely malnourished two-year-old girl Rajni at the nutritional rehabilitation...
61% Rise In Heat-Stroke Deaths Over Decade
There was a 61% increase in the number of deaths due to heat stoke across India between 2004 to 2013, according to...
More Poor Children in School, 30% Suffer Malnutrition
97% of 12-year-olds were enrolled in elementary schools in 2013; up from 89% in 2006. Almost a third of children...
Filthy Facilities Imperil Bihar’s Sterilised Women
Women at a healthcare facility which was part of a study on female sterilisation in Eastern Bihar. Women...
1 Laboratory For 8.8 Million, As India Faces Food-Safety Crisis
Faced with a growing food- and water-contamination crisis, India has only 148 food-testing laboratories. In...
Keeping Chicken Healthy Threatens India's Health
Outside the northern city limits of Bangalore, in a commercial poultry farm, cages packed with screeching...
100% Wrong: Rural Medical Staff Make Diarrhoea Life-Threatening
More than 90% of treatments for childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia--the leading causes of death among Indian...
Swine-Flu Toll Rises, Panic Need Not
Earlier this week, the Shani mandir—dedicated to Shani Dev, a Hindu god who wards off evil—in Jaipur’s Janta Colony saw...