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How stigma keeps new moms from getting treated for postpartum depression

By Nimeshika Jayachandran This article was first published on The News Minute and has been republished with permission. When Sharada* had her first child three years ago, she hadn’t expected the turmoil she would experience post-delivery. “I remember looking down at this baby, and just feeling so overwhelmed with sadness. I felt hopeless and I …

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A type 1 diabetes epidemic among India’s children?

Around 97,000 children in India suffer from type 1 diabetes. In Delhi alone around 32 children per every 1,000 are affected by the disease. Indians suffer a genetic predisposition to diabetes which partially accounts for the elevated numbers of diabetics in India compared to other nations. A number of genes have been uncovered which could …

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Nearly 200 women a day die from cervical cancer

Approximately 172 women die every day in India due to cervical cancer. According to the Indian Council for Scientific Research (CSIR), more than 63,000 women in India died of the disease in 2015. This is despite cervical cancer being 80 percent preventable,  often treatable and having a high survival rate if caught in its early …

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Western diets and Indian genetics, a ticking time bomb of diabetes

India is facing a diabetes crisis. Western dietary habits, particularly the increased consumption of junk food, are becoming increasingly common in the country. This, combined the genetic predisposition for diabetes, is laying the groundwork for a public health crisis which will see an estimated 134.3 million people suffering with diabetes in India by 2045. India’s …

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Time for India to deliver on NCDs

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a stark warning about the threat of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). India should take note. “NCDs and mental disorders currently pose one of the biggest threats to health and development globally,” a WHO high-level independent commission on NCDs said in their report released on Friday, June 1. It added, …

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Progeria awareness in India

A rare disease causes children to rapidly mimic the symptoms — often dying before they become teenagers — yet it remains under-identified. The disease is all but unknown in India due to its rarity, though efforts of the Progeria Research Foundation (PRF) and social media campaigners such as Nihal Bitla — a child from Mumbai …

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The inequality of improvement: What the HAQ Index tells India

Access to healthcare has improved in India since 1990 – but not enough. Meanwhile, inequality persists. The country takes the 145th place out of 195 countries on the Healthcare Access and Quality (HAQ) Index. This measures the accessibility and quality of healthcare in countries by drawing on a plethora of data, including the 2016 Global …

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Centre to establish 70 cancer centres, says Modi

The Centre will establish seventy new cancer facilities across the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pledged. The Centre plans to erect twenty state cancer institutes and fifty tertiary cancer care centres, Modi said during a speech at the Adyar Cancer Institute in Chennai. There will be fourteen new oncology-focused All India Institutes of Medical …

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Suicide of former Maharashtra ATS chief highlight lack of mental healthcare

The former Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief and Additional Director General of Police in Maharashtra committed suicide on May 11. Himanshu Roy had been fighting cancer since 2000. Some have speculated that post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may have played a rolein his death. This high profile incident has spotlighted lacking mental healthcare within India, …

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One in ten Indians affected by infertility

Infertility affects ten to fourteen percent of Indians according to the Indian Society of Assisted Reproduction (ISAR). The ISAR warns that these figures are beginning to rise rapidly as infertility becomes more common in urban environments. According to a report released in 2015, 27.5 million couples who were actively seeking children suffered from infertility in …

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