Nearly 65% of adults in the Arab region remain excluded from formal financial systems, according to a new report by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). The Annual SDG Review 2025 paints a sobering picture of persistent financial exclusion that is undermining the region’s ability …
Bhopal: A new package has been chalked out for private health institutions with a view to extending the benefit of Janani Sahyogi Yojana to women living below poverty line. Giving this information, Minister for Public Health, Family Welfare, Medical Education and AYUSH Anup Mishra said fees has been determined for …
Information is scarce about the combined effects on breast cancer incidence of low-penetrance genetic susceptibility polymorphisms and environmental factors (reproductive, behavioural, and anthropometric risk factors for breast cancer). To test for evidence of gene
Quality assured, weight perfect. For complaints or bulk order, dial 9334412648. These are not the claims of a retail giant, but a handful of street vendors selling vegetables in brightly-painted yellow and orange carts on Patna’s busy streets. People queue up to these refrigerated carts to buy what the vendors …
When the United Progressive Alliance (upa) triumphed at the hustings exactly a year ago, both its supporters and detractors agreed the victory vindicated the government’s social welfare schemes. The upa, in its first avatar, brought a new lease of life in many areas of the social welfare sector. It discarded …
Jayamma’s uterus was removed two years ago—she was 18. Married at 12, she had children at 15 and 17 and she did not know she would undergo uterus removal surgery (hysterectomy) when she went to a doctor for pain in her lower abdomen. The doctor, in a pr-ivate hospital in …
Gender inequalities in biomedical research are undermining patient care. In the first of three related pieces, Alison M. Kim, Candace M. Tingen and Teresa K. Woodruff call on journals, funding agencies and researchers to give women parity with men, in studies and in the clinic.
Biomedical research continues to use many more male subjects than females in both animal studies and human clinical trials. The unintended effect is to short-change women
Solving the predicaments facing women is a crucial development objective. But it is also a neglected instrument for health. Women and girls make up 60% of the world's poorest people and two-thirds of the world's illiterate people. Yet, with education and empowerment, they can lead healthy lives, lift themselves and …
Mumbai: Women commuters in the metropolis are more prone to get Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) due to unhygienic condition of toilets at Mumbai's suburban railway stations, the study by a city-based NGO said here. The study was conducted by Observer Research Foundation (ORF), a city-based think-tank, on sanitation facilities at …
Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) seeks to contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment. The CBDRM Training and Learning Circle (TLC) network has developed this training manual on Integrating Gender into Community Based Disaster Risk Management, to help harness the capacities of both women and men in addressing vulnerable …
Few studies have investigated maternal exposures during pregnancy to pesticides currently in use. Castorina et al. measured metabolites of current-use pesticides and other precursor compounds in urine samples collected twice during pregnancy from 538 California women enrolled in the Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas …
Numerous countries have undergone decentralisation reforms in the management of natural resources. However, the policies implemented are often not applied in ways compatible with the democratic potential with which decentralisation is conceived. The paper analyses the issue of decentralisation in resource management, in Thanagazi block, Alwar District, Rajasthan. In this …
Poverty has been identified as the main cause and consequence of environmental degradation in Africa . It follows that if poverty is the main cause of environmental degradation in Africa , then policies, programmes and legal provisions designed to protect the environment in the region will be unsuccessful without a …
Microfinance can be profitable and viable if used as a capital to promote micro enterprise. Samudram fishermen federation in Orissa used micro finance as an investment tool to achieve biodiversity conservation, income generation and women’s empowerment. http://www.agriculturesnetwork.org/magazines/india/2-finance-for-farming/microfinance-for-livelihood-improvement/at_download/article_pdf
With the cracking of the human genome in 2003 emerged the “Omics” era. Genomics and Proteomics turned into fields of study dedicated entirely to genes, proteins and their complex reign over the human body. Terms like “biomarkers” were coined. These are proteins formed in the presence of a disease and …
