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Organ Donation
13
Aug

    World Organ Donation Day: ‘Don’t take your organs to heaven; heaven knows we need them here,’ says leading liver transplant surgeon Dr Arvinder Singh Soin

    • Mariyam Alavi / 3 days
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    • 16 min read

    According to the Union Health Ministry, India has made unprecedented progress in the field of organ transplantation — performing over 18,900 organ transplants in 2024 alone, the highest ever recorded in a single year. This is a sharp rise from fewer than 5,000 such surgeries in 2013, placing India third in the world after the […]

    International Day of Action for Women's Health - AI generated
    28
    May

      International Day of Action for Women’s Health: Tech led solutions that are revolutionising women’s health

      • Mariyam Alavi / 3 months
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      • 17 min read

      Women’s health has been neglected, poorly studied and underfunded for far too long now. It is now well established that historically, women were excluded from most medical studies. They were conducted on men, and the data collected from them were generalized to women. In fact, many studies conducted on rodents too, excluded female rodents, as […]

      vaccines Dr Soumya Swaminathan
      28
      Apr

        World Immunization Week: Vaccines are probably one of the biggest innovation of the 20th century, says Dr Soumya Swaminathan

        • Mariyam Alavi / 4 months
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        • 17 min read

          According to the World Health Organization six lives have been saved every minute for the last 50 years, because of essential vaccines—that is 15.4 crore lives in five decades. “In these 50 years, vaccination accounts for 40% of the improvement in infant survival, and more children now live to see their first birthday and […]