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The death of a young chartered accountant has highlighted a work culture of overworked employees and bullying bossesFor the average Indian, the working week is now longer than ever – totalling almost 47 hours.According to recent labour data, India now …
続きを読むAfter huge gains by 2005, efforts to wipe the disease out in India, which has most of the world’s cases, stalled. But the new campaign is seen as a political move without resourcesAs a teenager, Tanu Bai would burn her hands while cooking but feel no p…
続きを読むRegime suspends polio campaign across Afghanistan over security concerns and women’s role in vaccination driveAfghanistan is at risk of a polio outbreak, health officials have warned, after the Taliban suspended the vaccination campaign over security f…
続きを読むBeijing court rejects lawsuit brought by Xu Zaozao, who was seeking to widen access to fertility treatment in ChinaA Chinese woman who filed a groundbreaking lawsuit to win the right to freeze her eggs has lost her final appeal, exhausting the legal av…
続きを読むCalls grow for end to ban that means only married Chinese couples can access ‘social egg freezing’ servicesWhen Yang Li* turned 30, she gave herself three years to decide whether or not she wanted to have children. But as the years ticked by, working a…
続きを読むDoctors deplore decision and point to country’s high neonatal mortality rate as bank, which opened in June, forced to close without taking a single depositWhen he heard a hospital in Karachi was setting up a milk bank for babies, the news was a “huge r…
続きを読むBig tobacco ‘working in the shadows’ blamed for killing off NZ’s pioneering plan to protect future generationsUK politics – latest updatesWhen New Zealand announced its world-first law to ban smoking for future generations it was widely hailed as a lif…
続きを読むResearchers find that in low and middle-income countries owning spectacles can help people over 35 increase their incomeOwning a pair of reading glasses might help people increase their earnings by a third, according to new research.The study, conducte…
続きを読むAs rising sea levels and extreme weather contaminate drinking water sources, doctors are seeing alarming numbers of women with serious health problems including pre-eclampsiaPhotographs by Farzana HossenIn the small, crowded ward of the Upazila Health …
続きを読むSome professors will submit their resignations while others will cut their hours over a government plan to boost medical school admissionsMedical professors in South Korea have said they will reduce the hours they spend in practice, while some say they…
続きを読むAfter no reported cases of wild polio for 19 weeks, vaccination efforts boosted at last endemic spots in Pakistan and AfghanistanThe world is “tantalisingly close” to eradicating polio – with no confirmed cases of wild polio anywhere so far this year. …
続きを読むIt has taken 18 years for India to produce its own affordable version to tackle the country’s second-biggest cause of cancer deaths among womenIt is a Wednesday morning and Sneha Neurgaonkar sits on a gurney in a private hospital in Pune, India. The 14…
続きを読むAlmost 12,000 doctors have walked out over planned changes, as the country’s health ministry denies services have descended into chaosSouth Korea’s government has started taking steps to suspend the medical licences of thousands of striking doctors, as…
続きを読むScheme allows three days off each term as high school stress and depression rates soarTaiwanese high schools will begin offering mental health leave to students this month, to address rising rates of youth suicide and high levels of stress and depressi…
続きを読むThe walkout by 8,400 doctors is in protest at government plans to raise the number of trainee medicsSouth Korea has raised its public health alert to “severe” for the first time, after thousands of doctors went on strike to protest against government r…
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