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3 weeks ago | 
thehindu.com | Ramya Kannan |Zubeda Hamid
This week on Health Wrap by The Hindu, we explore how new data and emerging technologies are reshaping public health in India and beyond. The latest maternal mortality figures from the Registrar General show a steady national decline, yet states such as Madhya Pradesh, Assam and Uttar Pradesh continue to report alarmingly high numbers, highlighting the urgent need for equitable access to maternal healthcare.
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1 month ago | 
thehindu.com | Ramya Kannan |Zubeda Hamid |Saumya Kalia
(In the weekly Health Matters newsletter, Ramya Kannan writes about getting to good health, and staying there. You can subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox.)It truly seems to be the age of innovation that we are living in, not in the conventional sense of the term, but innovation at a pace that we have never seen before. It seems as if the development of the COVID vaccine in record time has been like a magic wand that’s opened up a Pandora’s box of possibilities.
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2 months ago | 
thehindu.com | Ramya Kannan |Zubeda Hamid |Saumya Kalia
(In the weekly Health Matters newsletter, Ramya Kannan writes about getting to good health, and staying there. You can subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox.)You are going to have to wake up wide for this week’s newsletter, for this time, we are going to tell you about prioritising sleep. A good night’s sleep is highly underrated, but we are just coming to terms with the multiple impacts that sleep, or the lack of it, indeed, have on the human body.
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2 months ago | 
thehindu.com | Ramya Kannan |Zubeda Hamid |Saumya Kalia
(In the weekly Health Matters newsletter, Ramya Kannan writes about getting to good health, and staying there. You can subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox.)There is no shying away from the fact that without eternal vigilance at the turnstile of the infectious diseases pathway into the community, we will be allowing pathogens to traipse right into our midst, and if we are further unprepared, then, this will leave a devastating trail of destruction.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
thehindu.com | Zubeda Hamid |Ramya Kannan |Saumya Kalia
(In the weekly Health Matters newsletter, Zubeda Hamid writes about getting to good health, and staying there. You can subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox.)It’s often called the ‘mother of all diseases’ but perhaps not taken as seriously as it should be: obesity, now a crisis of epic proportions in India, needs tackling urgently and effectively. Why is it the ‘mother’?
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
thehindu.com | Zubeda Hamid |Ramya Kannan |Saumya Kalia
(In the weekly Health Matters newsletter, wewrite about getting to good health, and staying there. You can subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox.)Every year, public health activists look forward to the Union Budget, hoping for increased allocations for the health sector, a boost for primary health, a focus on prevention to help keep the population healthy and the strengthening of State-run healthcare institutions.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
thehindu.com | Ramya Kannan |Zubeda Hamid |Saumya Kalia
(In the weekly Health Matters newsletter, Ramya Kannan writes about getting to good health, and staying there. You can subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox.)What started in mid January with the index case of a 50-year-old woman who was admitted to the Poona Hospital and Medical Research Centre with a tingling in her lower limbs that seemed to progress to paralysis, has now become the biggest health talking point in the country.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
thehindu.com | Ramya Kannan |Zubeda Hamid |Saumya Kalia
(In the weekly Health Matters newsletter, Ramya Kannan writes about getting to good health, and staying there. You can subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox.)The strongest arm to strike the health desk this week is Donald Trump’s. While we have been anticipating Trump to overturn the world order of things, certainly, among the first few signatures he cast sent the health community tipping headlong into the portending gloom.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thehindu.com | Ramya Kannan
(In the weekly Health Matters newsletter, Ramya Kannan writes about getting to good health, and staying there. You can subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox.)It’s true that we haven’t really prepared for demographic transition.s As the country moves ahead and progresses in health care, besides simultaneously working on stabilising fertility at replacement level, there are clear signs of a demographic transition in some parts of the country.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
thehindu.com | Ramya Kannan
National attention has been sought and secured on the conduct of caesarean sections , pointing out a possible excess. The likely reliance on more than medical factors to perform the procedure has also become an issue. Calls to regulate have been loud and purposeful, particularly recently in Karnataka. But activists also point to hysterectomies, raising the question of whether such procedures are being done only when warranted.
