Tag: Population
WHO India honours Public Health Champions
The scope of the awards covers contribution to significant advances in population and person focused services and inter-sectoral actions........
Empowering women with a rights-based approach to family planning
A National Level Consultation between Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India (FOGSI) and Population Foundation of India (PFI) and Members of Parliament on PPP to Increase Access to Family Planning..........
Close to 10 lakh doctors for 1.32 billion people in India
As per the union health ministry, the doctor-population ratio in India stands at 1:1668..........
Lok Sabha passes Maternity benefit (amendment) bill, 2016
The maternity benefit for working women has been increased from 12 weeks to 26 weeks, thereby providing much better and improved maternal and infant health indicators in the future......
CMFRI develops anti-obesity medicine from seaweed
Kochi based Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute has developed CadalminTM anti-hypercholesterolemic extract for controlling the obesity....
Grass-root mental health program reduces treatment gap for depression, reveals new...
A grass-root mental health program dramatically reduces the treatment gap for depression, a major risk factor for suicide, in rural Vidarbha, finds Lancet Psychiatry Study....
Agri minister asks scientists to develop techniques adaptable to marginal farmers
At an event recently in Kerala, the union agriculture minister, Mr Radha Mohan Singh appealed the Indian agriculture scientists to keep....
BioVoice eMag November 2016 Issue-7 Volume-1
BioVoice eMag November 2016 Issue-7 Volume-1:
The November edition of BioVoice features detailed cover story on challenges due to shrinking agricultural space in India and...
Declining biodiversity: Wildlife populations could drop two-thirds by 2020
The WWF’s Living Planet Report 2016 states that world needs to re-think production systems and consumption patterns as top threats to species......
Committed to make healthcare system sensitive to mental issues, says govt
Addressing mental illnesses by way of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation is necessary for achieving our health objectives, say top ministers.......