Healthcare

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.

In a place like rural Bihar where even talking about topics such as family planning is a taboo, these adolescent Muslim girls are going door-to-door and spreading awareness about it in their village. The youngest member of the team is just 14 and knows it all!

WHO declared India as Polio-free in 2014. From the remarkable history of the vaccine's discovery to the 100 percent eradication of the virus in the country, here is the complete story of India's long but successful battle against polio.

Karnataka has just launched bike ambulances which will provide crucial medical support to the patient in need till the four wheeler ambulance arrives. The service will be very useful in congested areas with heavy traffic, where a four-wheeler is unable to reach on time.

Women in MP have been replacing regular cooking oil with fortified cooking oil and seen a significant improvement in their Vitamin D levels. Know more about the alternate oil and how companies are leveraging the soyabean to provide a healthy oil option.

The revolutionary "Jeevan Bindi" can act as an iodine patch and help millions of women in rural India live a healthier life. Here is all you need to know about the innovative and highly beneficial idea.