Healthcare

Did you know that the oldest yoga teacher in the world is an 85 year lady from Australia who holds a world record? Here are 14 such such interesting facts you should know on the first International Day of Yoga.

From using a unique model for free eye-care to marginalized community to empowering women through para medics training, SECI is covering many grounds. They have conducted over 1.3 million surgeries for adults and screened over 4.2 million children. Here's their success story.

A young mother can think of killing her own baby and it is not as unusual as you think. A highly dangerous phase, postnatal depression is often ignored by both, the families and the doctors. This article shatters the myths around post-birth care of mothers and is a one-stop information provider for all that you need to know about PND.

This new innovation by Indian scientists could provide safe PMMA Intra Ocular Lenses for poor patients. The technology is low cost with a success rate of 100 percent. Here is all you need to know about the technology that could do a lot of good.

Muslim women in Rajasthan are finally breaking age old traditions for better health after child birth. Thanks to a timely intervention, with the support of local religious leaders and conscientious community volunteers, exclusive breastfeeding in the golden hour has increased to 86.4 per cent. Here's how it was made possible.

An unplanned and unwanted pregnancy can create a lot of issues for the woman's health and the family. Here is how a mobile service can avoid such situations. Know more about CycleTel Humsafar and how it works from the team which created it.

What Melinda Gates has to say about women's healthcare in developing countries like India and what makes her optimistic towards change. Here are her views on why women's healthcare is crucial.

A small village in Rajasthan finally got its due - a fully functional primary health centre - when the villagers came together as one to fight for their rights. Read what the might of a united community can achieve.

If you thought just providing hearing aids to the hearing impaired could help them hear, you thought wrong. So did Elita Almeida until she met this Kolkata-based NGO, which seems to have cracked the right model to deal with deafness in an effective way.

He is helping children with special needs fight their biggest fears and live a better life. He has made some of the most shy and difficult kids become confident and social. And he is very, very cute. Meet Dr. Ruffles.