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Sonal Matharu

Sonal was Special Correspondent with Governance Now.

Contributions

Social security should be a rights-based approach: ILO India
World No Tobacco Day: Hungry? Have tobacco, it is cheaper than food
Fighting filaria, the disease of the poor
How villages in four states are tackling malnutrition
Dying in the dust bowl: How men are becoming statistics in Jharkhand`s villages
App for healthier food choices gets Indian touch
Why your dal is so costly
"Urad dal and moong dal are Rs 200 a kilo. Is that development?"
World No Tobacco Day: Pictorial warning, a picture worth a thousand lives
State-level disease burden data soon in India
Battling dengue: Papaya panacea
AP detects glitches in Aadhaar-linked PDS distribution
Blackboard and scalpel
Healthy move
North Delhi MLA Mangat Ram Singhal’s report card
High time smokeless tobacco was banned
Under the tendu rolling pin: The exploited bidi workers of Madhya Pradesh
Present Jan Lokpal in Parl: Hazare writes to PM
India may back stricter tobacco control at UN meet
Govt hiding truth about endosulfan
Put gender equality at the heart of MDG: UN
Screening slums for diabetes, hypertension
Waiting for treatment at AIIMS
Private firm suspended for conducting clinical trials on poor women
Sex ratio in Delhi worst in north west and south west
New drug regimen for HIV positive pregnant women
Menstrual hygiene scheme to be expanded
Asha Kiran residents will have to wait longer for new home
Is Raj Bala a victim of state crackdown or threat to democracy?
HIV an epidemic in waiting in north India
Rules to bring hospitals under check out soon
Soon, all services free to pregnant women in govt hospitals
Mumbai doctor honoured by WHO
Doctors unhappy with MCI governors’ selection procedure
"New AIDS programme not comprehensive"
Survey to assess users of Indian medicines
New rules for Ayurveda colleges
Rape and rehabilitation
Gutka ban: Cancer centre heads write to PM
ITC flouted norms, put up cigarette ads during WC
Smokeless tobacco addiction an epidemic: health sec
Five states increase tax on tobacco in 2011
National TB programme to be made more inclusive
Healthcare needs more than rollback
The healthcare tax: Why FM`s move would have been a sick one
How sick is that, Pranab da?
Cancer patients pin hope on Sushma Swaraj for gutkha ban
Pranab wants to make money off the sick
Special rehab facilities for mentally ill
Countdown to Budget 2011-12
Exemption for mentally ill from suicide law
Boost to mental healthcare
Experts ask for ban on Gutka
Govt fails to respond on junk food ban
Doctors end strike at GTB hospital
Glaring lapses plague AIIMS in child molestation case
Doctor-patient relationship should change: AIIMS director
AIIMS report on 8-year-old`s sexual abuse not out yet
Medical needs of homeless neglected
Doctors, civil society want guidelines on school canteens
Radiologists can prevent female foeticide, says president
Handique exhorts miners to invest in NE region
Look from outside to see what`s ailing
Expert advice for govt on universal healthcare coverage by 2020
No more products endorsement, says IMA
Doctors unhappy with rural healthcare course
No last word on MBBS common entrance test yet
Underutilised resources aggravating eye disease cases
Lancet shifts focus to Indian healthcare
No treating India`s sick healthcare?
Distant learning course for health professionals
Distant learning course for health professionals
Strong community health workforce antidote to IMR, MMR
Institutional care for HIV orphans
Soon, health insurance for Delhi`s poor
Info for Delhi doctors on AIDS helpline
Lokayukta can check systematic corruption: Study
Shortchanged by change
Uniform health insurance not enough for India
Delhi welfare homes to be audited soon
Awareness key to preventing AIDS
Spanking reminder on the Delhi Metro
Spanking reminder on the Delhi Metro
NEHM alloting degrees in unrecognised system of medicine
Poor states lag in approvals for medical colleges
NCHRC bill to revamp medical education
Cancer screening campaign in Meghalaya
Rural doctors course from next year
AIIMS defies court order
Model developed to evaluate spiritual health
Doctors set protocol for pain management
Tobacco use up among women in India
Little concern about India’s missing girls
No govt sponsorship for pvt tobacco event: HC
National policy on alcohol abuse in pipeline
Growing disconnect between mass media and mass reality: Sainath
Ayurvedic products to get quality assurance
Ayurvedic products to get quality assurance
Plan Com bats for group health insurance for workforce
No relenting in MCD doctors` silent protest
Doctors trained for better trauma care
Health ministry needs committed workforce: Dinesh Trivedi
Govt admits to letting tax money go up in `smoke`
Safdarjung docs threaten indefinite strike
Dialysis centre for central health scheme beneficiaries
State medical councils demand strict laws for quacks
Population stabilisation through students’ participation
Dengue blamegame becomes Centre`s malaise
Distant learning, telemedicine to meet faculty crunch in med-schools
MCI waits for final nod on common entrance test
AIDS awareness in Jamia through health centre
Task force to take on mosquitoes at CWG site
Scientists trace multi-drug resistant bacteria to India
Mosquitoes will be a buzzkill at CWG village: MCD
Ambedkar hospital shut for fourth day
Condom vending machines at games venue
Philanthropy suffers a heart attack at AIIMS
IRDA not to concern itself with cashless treatment
Nurses at Kasturba hospital underpaid, overworked
Rural healthcare course to be `need-based`
Transform, reform but get it to perform
Dinesh Trivedi sidelined fast for calling his babus slow
MoS health blames ministry babus` for pending projects
Health policy should run that extra mile in a `fast food nation`
No way through water
Training doctors to understand patients better
Govt`s anti-tobacco efforts go up in smoke at GTNF
He wore a sanitary napkin to ensure good health of women
MCI to form working group for medical ethics
Quality not a concern for Delhi govt hospitals
Regulation to ensure safe, good quality medical devices
No place to live, no place to study
Give these doctors a reason to stay
India’s first indigenous H1N1 vaccine launched
Safdarjang hospital strike on but patients won’t suffer
PG seats to be doubled in medical colleges
‘Tap innovations, you won’t need NREGA in 5 years’
`Bond to retain doctors in AIIMS a stale proposition`
Delhi`s GTB hospital installing digital X-ray machines
Gas stoves switched off, pulses cut out, bikes idle
TB diagnosis within 3 weeks soon
Shortage of doctors persists post-NRHM
Special ward to treat patients exposed to radiation
Making ayurveda, unani popular, the PPP way
We need to bring non-MBBS doctors under NHRM: Govt
Indian traditional medicine to be promoted during Games
Sanitation training for govt hospitals staff
Azad trains gun on gutka industry
Implementation to be the test of Assam health Act
India suffers from organ donation deficiency
In a first, court convicts quacks
Tainted doctors taken off practice for now
Looking for a bed in AIIMS? You are not really serious, are you?
Will census give better count of the disabled?
Court asks for details on rural medical degree
New curriculum for post-grad medical courses
Ambedkar hospital to have waste disposal facility
Asha Kiran inmates wait in vain for new home
Himalayan system of medicine a course of study soon
Himalayan system of medicine a course of study soon
Soon ayurvedic medicines in rural health centres
Health care facilities near railway stations soon
Rural medical course gets thumbs up
Doctors protest against proposed rural medical course
No compromise on rural healthcare: Azad
Centre questioned on rural healthcare