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Fashion’s new support system

Size of women’s birth canal depends on the place where one lives: study

Most medical textbooks, which are based on a European body type, puts others at risk

Downside of medical crowdfunding

Study covered clinics in 8 countries, including India, that offer various ‘dangerous treatments’

Watch: Leprosy in India: What went wrong?

India's claim on leprosy elimination seems to have run into trouble and the Supreme Court has taken note of the issues. Did India underestimate its

Healthcare costs should not financially destroy families: Indu Bhushan

The CEO of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana on the challenges and scope of the scheme and responses from the States

Bad air quality leaves Delhi gasping for breath

Can have adverse effect on pregnant women, children, warn doctors

3D bioprinting to create artificial blood vessels, organ tissue

The findings could lead to better, more personalised treatments for those suffering from hypertension and other vascular diseases

The changing face of health communication

How the shift from cure to prevention, from exclusion to inclusion, and from prescriptive to personalisation is being made in the healthcare industry

How queer-friendly is your doctor?

LGBTQ activists talk about the four problems they face when it comes to accessing health

Knowledge as the first remedy for Sickle Cell Anemia

There is a common belief in Nigeria that anybody living with sickle cell anemia, also known as SCD, dies before age 40. As a result, they are treated

Gaining through abstaining

It’s a dangerous epidemic: there are now more obese than underweight people on this planet. A very simple method could help people burn off the flab and live healthier lives.

An air pollution filter to prevent heart and lung diseases

Delhi is one of the most polluted cities in the world. But the Indian capital is also the birthplace of an innovative device that aims to prevent

Could surgery be the answer to obesity?

Around the world, 1.9 billion adults are overweight and 650 million are obese.

Immunotherapy promising in treating breast cancer

The study is a major breakthrough in advanced cases of ‘triple-negative’ tumour

Da Vinci’s genius may be due to eye disorder: study

‘This could have helped him recreate 3D shapes in his work’

Sensitisation is the key

According to the World Health Organization, India is the most depressed country in the world, followed by China and the U.S. The stigma and misconceptions associated with mental health add to the problem. Some views

Eight new Zika cases in Rajasthan, total now 117

Panel formed to track virus in pregnant patients

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Pulling a fast one on diabetes

More data is needed to prove that intermittent fasting can reverse diabetes

Collaborating for health care

There is ‘an essential truth in the old saying that it takes a village to raise a child. The logic that the collaborative efforts of a community are

The need for disclosure

Tuberculosis patients in India are frequently ignorant of drug side-effects

Osteoporosis: right diet, exercise and sunlight can help in reducing risk, says doctor

Osteoporosis is a disease in which the bones become brittle and fragile due to low bone mass and loss of bone tissue. It increases the risk of

New plan to counter antimicrobial resistance

Action plan devised by State under the One Health platform is likely to be rolled out on Thursday

India’s first uterine transplant baby is a girl

Baby weighing 1.45 kg delivered through a Caesarean section at Galaxy Care Hospital

Air pollution weakens your bones, shows recent study

People more exposed to pollutants experience faster bone loss

Dengue claimed 80 lives, affected 40,000 Indians till Sept’18: Health ministry

Dengue has claimed the lives of over 80 people and affected around 40,000 people across the country till September this year, the Union Health

New skin gel offers protection from some pesticides

Scientists conducted successful tests on rats and plan to undertake human trials soon

‘Rajasthan’s Zika strain close to Brazilian one’

Though it is spreading quickly, most cases have been mild.

UN launches mental health strategy

The United Nations has launched a strategy to deal with workplace mental health issues and the well-being of its staff by dealing with the stigma

Editorial: It’s time to reshape the way we think about health issues

Over the next three weeks, Sparknews is proud to invite five leading newspapers from five different countries (Der Spiegel, El Pais, The Sunday Times, The Nation & The Hindu) to explore stories of solutions that are having an impact on today’s most pressing healthcare challenges.

‘A (H1N1) influenza not a cause for alarm in Tamil Nadu’

Health Department issues advisories to the public

High lead exposure causing intellectual disability in Indian children: study

At low levels, one microgrammes per deciLitre of lead contamination in the blood causes more than half a point of IQ decrement

When all falls away, what sustains me?

Why patience truly is an under-appreciated virtue

How to deal with ‘texting neck’, ‘handbag shoulder’ and more

When convenience and fashion cause pain, there are ways of addressing it

Can art save you?: On films that talk about mental health

Filmmakers use the visual medium to talk about mental health issues at the SCARF film festival

Healthcare for immigrants in 30 languages

A pioneering programme featuring cultural mediators and interpreters at Madrid’s Ramón y Cajal Hospital provides assistance to over 5,700 migrants and trains another 10,000 in TB and sex education.

The promise of eHealth for rural India

As a scientist at the New Delhi-based Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Dr. Anurag Agrawal often ponders the links between genes

Midwives could reduce maternal mortality rates in South Africa

Could midwives be the solution to curbing South Africa’s dismal maternal mortality rate, currently among the highest in the world? The rheumatologist

Stunting-free future for South African children

Pink bunting creates an appealing contrast to a South African community centre’s brick facade, which is the same brownish shade as the dusty streets

A visit to the Health Center

Access to health services in Germany is unevenly distributed. In disadvantaged neighbourhoods you’ll find far fewer doctors then in wealthy areas. A new concept in a district of Hamburg could be a model for a nationwide solution.

Resisting resistance: on antibiotic misuse

India needs to strengthen and implement regulations on antibiotic misuse

Zika: doctors advise caution this festive season

Say this time sees a lot of inter-State movement which increases the risk of virus spreading to new areas

Lessons from the Philippines

In the Philippines, we were able to quintuple government spending on health by financing it through sin taxes for tobacco and alcohol.

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