-The Times of India MUMBAI: Abortions among teenage girls below the age of 15 in Mumbai have recorded an alarming 67% spike in 2014-15. Civic data accessed through an RTI further shows that out of nearly 31,000 women who opted for medical termination of pregnancy, 1,600 were below the age of 19. Health experts have called the trend of unwanted pregnancies alarming, while harping on the need for better sex education in...
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In Fight for Help, These Farmers Have Been on a 'Water Protest' for 25 Days All India -Siddharth Ranjan Das & Shailaja Neelakantan
-NDTV Gholgagon, Madhya Pradesh: Twenty protestors, from Gholgagon village along the Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh, have been standing in waist-deep water for the last 25 days. The soles of their feet are completely stripped of skin and are infected with fungal sores. "Our health condition is deteriorating, epidermal skin from the soles of our feet is peeling. This has made standing and Walking very difficult," says 63-year-old Sakku Bai, who's been...
More »Experts gathered in Nepal a week ago
-AP An earthquake had long been feared, not just because of the natural seismic fault, but because of the local, more human conditions that made it worse. Nepal’s devastating earthquake was the disaster experts knew was coming. Just a week ago, about 50 earthquake and social scientists from around the world had come to Kathmandu to get the area to prepare better for a big earthquake. “It was sort of a nightmare waiting to...
More »One in 10 Indians depressed, don’t ignore subtle symptoms -Malathy Iyer
-The Times of India MUMBAI: Extreme weepiness and severe melancholy are not the only calling cards of depression, a serious mental disorder that roughly affects 10% of the population. Doctors say the symptoms could be subtler or of a lower degree - a sudden habit of rash driving, making mean observations or even showing perpetual irritability. As it emerges that Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who reportedly crashed a plane into the French...
More »Patients looking for quick fixes, chemists & quacks spur antibiotics resistance -Roli Srivastava
-The Times of India PUNE: Family physician Dr Kumar Mandhare has been practising for 27 years in Koregaon Park in Pune, treating a wide variety of patients. Over the last few years, however, he has observed a new set of patients - on whom once-effective antibiotics drugs don't work. He pegs their number at 30 to 40% of the patients he gets, usually people who have found a quick fix solution to...
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