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In the modern lifestyle, we are exposed to many chemicals in our everyday life to meet our escalating material demands. As per an estimate, we come across about 500 chemical compounds daily, several being synthetic and toxic in nature. Many of these toxic chemicals have the potential to bring about severe health impacts not only in human beings but also in other living organisms existing in nature. Release of these chemicals into our environment also causes pollution of soil, water and air and these ultimately again reach the human body through the food chains.

Suicides don’t take place in a vacuum. They take place in a society. Suicide cannot be blamed on an individual, no matter how much our society loves to do it but it can be blamed on a social context — the caste system, for one.

From demonetisation to Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS), laptop curbs to generic medicine mandate, there is an emerging pattern in the government of the day. Decisions are railroaded without thinking through or adequate deliberations on the likely fallout. They are later discarded. The inexplicable haste to rule by executive orders hurts governance, creates unnecessary anxieties among sectors.

Currently, geriatric healthcare services are available in tertiary care hospitals. Urban areas have the most facilities. As majority of the elderly population stay in the rural region of India, the need of the hour is to integrate geriatric healthcare into primary healthcare services.

The deadliest animal in the world is smaller than a pencil eraser and weighs around two-thousandths of a gram — less than...

India faces the lowest rate of organ donation worldwide, with a mere 0.1 per cent of the population donating their organs after death, in sharp contrast to 70-80 per cent of people in European countries who pledge to do so.

The occurrence of fibroids are quite common. Research studies show that 20- 50 per cent of Indian women have fibroids once during their lifetime.

As per the National Viral Hepatitis Control Program (NVHCP), in India, an estimated 40 million people suffer from Hepatitis B, and 6 to 12 million people suffer from Hepatitis C. Hepatitis B virus is also responsible for around 70 per cent of liver cirrhosis and 80 per cent hepatocellular carcinoma in the country.

IVF (In-vitro- fertilisation) has evolved as a profit-generating industry. India is the third-largest consumer of IVF treatment in the world after China and Japan. Today, it does somewhere around 2,50,000 cycles annually in over 1,750 IVF centres. Each cycle averages at around 2,500 dollars, which makes the current industry size to be about 625 million dollars. With this growing pace, India has the potential to become the world’s capital for IVF treatment in next couple of years.

Recently the world has been subject to a tsunami of new ideas and technology regarding Al. Till date those who have been pointing to these changes were derided as conspiracy theorists. But now the change has become mainstream and being projected as progressive development that will lead to a well regulated and disciplined, peaceful society.