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Music and Mental Health

Music has the power to influence people’s emotions; it can make them happy,sad, or angry. Music can also aid in the recovery of mental illnesses. The Geriatric Mental Health Department of the Chhatarati Shahuju Maharaj Medical University in India is… Continue Reading →

WHO adopts India’s resolution on mental health

  Aarti Dhar, Jan 23, 2012 The World Health Organisation (WHO) has adopted a resolution moved by India that focuses on the global burden of mental disorders and the need for a comprehensive, coordinated response from health and social sectors… Continue Reading →

User fee removal in the health sector in low-income countries: lessons from recent national initiatives

Edited by Bruno Meessen, Lucy Gilson and Abdelmajid Tibouti Health Policy and Planning – Volume 26, Supplement 2 – November 2011 This supplement, sponsored by Unicef, focuses on the challenges related to the design and implementation of user fee removal… Continue Reading →

India & the sex selection conundrum

Published: Hindu, January 24, 2012 Farah Naqvi, A. K. Shiva Kumar Let us agree to go beyond billboard exhortations to ‘love the girl child.’ What was our immediate response to further decline in the child sex ratio in India? Within… Continue Reading →

Barrack-room surgery in Bihar’s backwaters

Shoumojit Banerjee in The  Hindu 23rd Jan 2012 The Kaparfora sterilisations expose the State administration’s tenuous hold over NGOs contracted for conducting family planning camps. About a fortnight ago, as the sun was setting late one cold Saturday afternoon, a… Continue Reading →

Calling all doctors to research into vaccine safety

Dear Dr ___, Namaskar. Yes I do write against vaccines in general and do not support any vaccination program. This is because of my 27 years of study on the subject, something which I doubt any pediatrician and/or other doctors… Continue Reading →

Harassment of mentally ill patients: Court orders high-level probe

Jan 17, 2012 (Thrissur )-Chief Judicial Magistrate P.S. Anthony on Monday directed the City Police Commissioner to investigate into the alleged harassment of inmates at the illegal mental health centre at Avanur, near here. The court directive was on the basis… Continue Reading →

False Promises- Dr Mohan Rao

The claim that the Unique Identification project will facilitate the delivery of basic health services is dishonest AMONG the many reasons cited for India to proceed with the Unique Identification (UID) project – that it will facilitate delivery of basic… Continue Reading →

A concern– India Shining Campaign

The country is shining, people’s health is declining Tell me, what is draining my people’s health? Is it so much poverty despite so much wealth? They smile and inform us that our country is shining. But everywhere I look, I… Continue Reading →

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