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Yoga isn’t timeless: It’s changing to meet contemporary needs

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This article has been republished here under a Creative Commons license from The Conversation. Full credit goes to the original author and publisher. The original article can be accessed here. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ By Jeremy David Engels, Pennsylvania State University On June 21, on International Yoga Day, people will take out their yoga mats and practice sun salutations […]

Health care is an essential human right – and so is a proper diagnosis

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This article has been republished under a Creative Commons license from The Conversation. The piece was authored by Madhukar Pai, McGill University. It can be accessed here. Full credit goes to the original author and publisher. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Health is a human right. And yet, the sad reality is that, 40 years after the Alma Ata […]

Emerging infectious diseases in India: the scourge that could boost urban development

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This article has been republished under a Creative Commons license from The Conversation. The piece was authored by Olivier Telle, research scientist at CSH, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). It can be accessed here. Full credit goes to the original author and publisher. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Human societies have seen a significant decrease in mortality from infectious diseases […]

Traditional health claims about India’s ayurvedic foods help make them big business

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This article has been republished under a Creative Commons license from The Conversation. The original piece was authored by Ajay Patel, senior lecturer in food law at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. It can be accessed here. Full credit goes to the original author and publisher.  ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In India, you can buy saffron that is “useful in asthma, indigestion, […]

When Indian women negotiate with local authorities to improve their lives in a slum

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This article has been republished under a Creative Commons license from The Conversation. The original piece was authored by Siddharth Agarwal, director of the Urban Health Resource Centre. It can be accessed here. Full credit goes to the original author and publisher.  How do you convince your local municipality officer that yes, you have every […]

How the University of California is fighting proxy patent battle for expensive cancer drug in India

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The following is taken from an article originally published in The Wire. It has been reprinted here with permission from the author. The original can be accessed here. New Delhi: Xtandi is a life-prolonging cancer drug and sells at about Rs 2.7 lakh for a month’s course in India – that’s for four tablets daily. It […]

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