The care-giving conundrum: How to look after the disabled
Disability is a dynamic and multidimensional public health issue of increasing importance. A deeper understanding of care providers is essential …
Rajya Sabha passes Disabilities Bill
The bill increases the types of disabilities from seven to 21, making more people eligible to reap benefits
Integrate disability in disaster management: Experts
A two-day national workshop aimed to offer safety lessons to differently-abled persons in the event of a disaster
The paradox of the loose joints
Laxity of joints can be a boon or liability, depending on whether they are subject to mobility or load-bearing.
3 things we can do now to help people with disability prepare for disaster
How to expand opportunity, choice and control for people with disability when disaster strikes
On a limb and a prayer
In Delhis not-too-fashionable areas, Sayantan Bera photographs musclemen who set sprains and fractures right
Stable switch
A flicker of brain signals received by a 'mind switch' and 10, disabled people can do a lot of handy work!
Not disability-friendly: Why Israel’s energy minister (and probably some others) couldn't participate in CoP26
The only options to get to the venue were to walk or board a shuttle that was not wheelchair-friendly
South African study gives insights into sexual health needs of people with disabilities
Many people without disabilities hold problematic attitudes towards the sexuality of people with physical disabilities, a study showed
Can disabled athletes outcompete able-bodied athletes?
In some distance events, disabled athletes already outcompete their able-bodied counterparts
Empowering the Disabled
Organisations strive to show that the world of a spastic child is no different than the one we all live in
Stable steriods
Capable of reducing bone destruction and pain, steroids lend a strong hand to arthritis patients
Mahatma Gandhi, public policy and COVID-19
The Gandhian talisman is important more than ever now in the times of pandemic to steer public policy for those who need it the most
Gene or genie
In a bid to halt the crippling disease in its tracks, American researchers have recently experimented with gene therapy as a cure for arthritis
World Autism Day – let’s allow disability to change our societies for the better
Autism has changed. The diagnosis has changed. But have we? I have an idea — let’s let autism change us.
The Paralympics is changing the way people perceive disabilities
People with disabilities are less restricted by their own impairments than by the barriers put on them by the society
Industry wary of entering handicapped market
New, more efficient aids are being developed for the physically handicapped under a government project. The stumbling blocks, however, are the …
Coming to grips with survival
Moulded plastic handles enable the farmers of the Tahirpur leprosy colony in Delhi to harvest high yields
Mending broken bones
A bonesetter from Old Delhi explains his popularity: Unlike doctors, he is more accountable to people
Global Burden of Diseases: Non-communicable diseases bigger burden than early deaths
New report’s findings again emphasises the fast emergence of non-communicable diseases as a global health challenge
Caring for the handicapped
Handicapped children are being helped to overcome their disabilities through special programmes and innovative schemes such as art.
Poisoned Punjab: A single street in this city is home to some 20 cancer patients
The health impact of polluted Buddha nullah waters affecting Abohar city, finds ground report
March against asbestos
Though its use is banned in most countries, the asbestos industry continues to thrive at the cost of putting millions of people at risk
New research links encephalitis to disability in Bihar
Most researches till now focused on cause of AES; this is the first to study children who survived the disease
Poisoned Punjab: Three children in this Fazilka village family are intellectually disabled but there’s no aid
Contaminated canal, groundwater linked to huge disease burden in Churi Wala village, show ground visits by DTE
