07-Jun-16 Telecom giant Telenor has launched Tonic, an mHealth service that provides basic medical information as well as more sophisticated services. Tonic has launched first in Bangladesh. Tonic is aiming to capitalize on the widespread adoption of mobile devices to enable new levels of access to healthcare among the 120 million estimated phone owners. [image: TechCrunch]

24-May-16 Blood donations are usually sluggish in summer in India as people are on vacation and educations institutions that host drives are closed. But the crisis this May, say hospitals, is forcing doctors to put off elective surgeries. [images: Getty Images]

23-May-16 Karnataka may boast of having the highest number of nursing institutes in the country, but its hospitals are facing a shortage of nurses. According to the health and family welfare department, around 24% of nurse posts - 2,118 of the 8,949 sanctioned posts - in government hospitals are vacant. [image: ERproductions Ltd / Getty Images]

19-May-16 A third of the global burden of mental, neurological and substance use disease occurs in India and China – more than all high-income countries combined. Yet most sufferers do not receive the needed treatment. By 2025, 40 mn years of healthy life will be lost to mental illness in China (10% increase from 2013), and 38 mn in India (23% increase). [image: OnMedica]

17-May-16 Maternal and child health outcomes achieved in Afghanistan have been fairly positive in a little over a decade. Unless we find ways to build health systems in fragile and failed states, it will be harder to progress on global goals such as the reduction of maternal and child mortality, and to protect the world from new infectious disease outbreaks. [image: GlobalGiving]