India's National Family Health Survey-6 shows significant improvements in maternal and child health. Vaccinations and antenatal care have i...

Quote of the day by Jean-Jacques Rousseau continues to inspire discussions on imagination, human nature, freedom and growth. Rousseau belie...

English poet John Donne's profound words on despair and joy resonate today. His quote, 'Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity...

Actress Ishita Dutta shared her experience with postpartum hair loss. The new mother is dealing with excessive hair loss after the birth of...

Symptoms such as pain during sexual intercourse (dyspareunia), low back pain, involuntary urination, anxiety, depression, and perineal pain...

A number of Chinese hospitals have closed down their maternity wards due to falling birth rates. The population is graying on the other han...

The FDA has approved a pill, Zurzuvae, to treat severe depression after childbirth, a condition that affects thousands of new mothers in th...

"India has taken important steps to improve the quality of care during labour and childbirth, leading to reductions in maternal deaths. Thi...

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The World Economic Forum's Gender Gap report has ranked India at 108 out of 144 countries surveyed, showing a fall of 21 places from the la...

The UN observes May 28 as the 'International Day of Action for Women's Health'. Did you know that women are more prone to anxiety & depress...

It comes close on the heels of the government considering a proposal to increase maternity leave for working women to 26 weeks from current...

Though India has the largest number of medical institutions, the disparity in the number of seats allotted for post-graduate and under-grad...

Risks posed by credit crunch to poor nations are already taking hold. Every 3 secs a child dies from health-related problems.

Ahead of the Union Budget 2008-09, NGOs today demanded that the Government should live up to its promise of allocating three per cent of th...

The Centre will introduce a Bill in the coming session of Parliament to remove the problems of working women in the unorganised sector.

With a whopping number of over 23,000 children getting HIV from their mothers every year, the government has planned several steps to drast...