The Government of India devotes only 1.35% of its GDP to health care as of now. The Government's investment in public health must at least double. Nations that have invested heavily in public health facilities, such as China, spend anywhere between 5 and 8% of their GDP on public health.

Yoga can be fun. There are birds to pose as in yoga. Pose like a crow, stand like the Siberian crane, or feel like an eagle… There are so many yoga asanas to make you feel free like a bird.

Sarojini Goyal Panika sees herself as a custodian of traditional medicinal wisdom passed down to her by her grandfather and father, by word of mouth. She uses that wisdom today to manufacture herbal oils, powders, tablets and extracts, and grows red-listed medicinal herbs to keep them from going extinct.

Can traditional healing practices be integrated with mainstream medicine? A conclave organised by Tata Steel Foundation in Jamshedpur fielded this question from traditional tribal healers from Ladakh to Tamil Nadu, who feared ancient medicinal wisdom was in danger of disappearing.

Between 2020 and 2023, there has been a spike in mental health issues amongst young Indians as per a report that surveyed 106,427 respondents across 36 States and Union Territories, aged between 18 and 74 years.

Uma Devi is a frontline healthcare worker in rural Uttar Pradesh who has marched on despite strife in her personal life, and has been honoured by Kareena Kapoor, actor and brand ambassador for UNICEF, for promoting mother and child health.

The WHO is likely to add aspartame, an artificial low-calorie sweetener, to its list of chemicals which can possibly cause cancer in humans. Will such a classification help regulate artificial sweeteners that are widely added to food products, such as soft drinks, biscuits, pastries, yoghurt, jams and jellies, in India? Gaon Connection talks to some experts.

A nonprofit, Transform Rural India Foundation, is working with hundreds of thousands villagers in Ranchi and Simdega districts of Jharkhand to familiarise them with various government health schemes for pregnant and lactating mothers, including free institutional delivery.

A total of 168 women from 79 villages in Madhya Pradesh's Barwani district have been roped in as voluntary agents of change and are tasked with connecting the women in their villages with the immediate healthcare services. Despite no financial rewards for their voluntary service, here's what drives these women to do what they do.

Rabies is a 100% preventable though not curable disease. Qazi Mudasir, a veterinary doctor at the Central Veterinary Hospital Srinagar, recently received an international award for rabies-control. He is the only Asian to have received this award this year.