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Turning sunset years into gold
Saturday, 10 February 2018, 12:01 pm | Citizen News Service
Turning sunset years into gold Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service) Watch video interview : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pkScsaGClM Listen or download podcast : http://bit.ly/2EcDJb8 (CNS): As soon as I set foot inside Suansawan Care Resort ... More >>
Accelerate momentum to #endTB
Wednesday, 3 January 2018, 7:03 pm | Citizen News Service
Accelerate momentum to #endTB as well as for progress on all #SDGs Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service) As the year 2017 comes to a close, let us reflect back on the progress made in the fight against TB. One cannot ignore the epic meeting ... More >>
Climate change, unplanned urbanization and air pollution
Friday, 22 December 2017, 9:06 pm | Citizen News Service
Climate change, unplanned urbanization and air pollution can fail us in beating NCDs Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service) Photograph of Dr Dean Schraufnagel is online at: http://bit.ly/2kXdA7V Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), mostly cardiovascular ... More >>
Are actions out-of-step to control the 'tsunami' of NCDs?
Saturday, 16 December 2017, 5:32 pm | Citizen News Service
Are actions out-of-step to control the 'tsunami' of NCDs? Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service) The city of Sharjah is about to get an air-conditioned walkway to promote walking all the year round- during the 5 months of searing summer heat of United ... More >>
Fighting to Death to Defeat Death
Thursday, 2 November 2017, 10:05 am | Citizen News Service
"One morning when I woke up in the hospital, it was not just another day. It was a day of numbing silence. I could not hear anything. I switched on the TV, but there was no sound. In a confused state, I went to the nurse. I could see that her ... More >>
Can we reach the tipping point for childhood TB?
Thursday, 26 October 2017, 4:09 pm | Citizen News Service
Can we reach the tipping point for childhood TB? Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service) • Photograph of Dr Jeffrey R Starke: http://bit.ly/2guEMZN • Another image: http://bit.ly/2gAjrSs An estimated 1 million annual cases of children with ... More >>
Anti-TB drug resistance threatens to unwind the progres
Friday, 26 May 2017, 11:48 am | Citizen News Service
(CNS): There is no doubt that groundbreaking progress has been made in fight against tuberculosis (TB) in the past two decades, but it might be prudent to review if we are winning the fight in order to #endTB by 2030. Do we slip backwards when we fail ... More >>
Cleaning up the air we breathe
Monday, 22 May 2017, 3:13 pm | Citizen News Service
Cleaning up the air we breathe Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS (CNS): My first personal brush with the severity of asthma was several years ago, when one of my students suddenly started gasping for breath in the middle of her Physics Practical ... More >>
Bringing TB out of the shadows - Bobby Ramakant
Monday, 8 May 2017, 3:23 pm | Citizen News Service
Bringing TB out of the shadows Bobby Ramakant, CNS (Citizen News Service) So said Jose Luis Castro, Executive Director of the International Union Against TB and Lung Disease (The Union). TB related stigma and discrimination still lurks in our communities ... More >>
We must bequeath good air to our next generation
Monday, 13 February 2017, 12:11 pm | Citizen News Service
So said award-winning Dr Chitra Chandrashekar, Director of Dr Iravatham’s Clinical Laboratory, Hyderabad. I met her in Mumbai during NAPCON 2016 and was struck by her modesty and her passion for working in the field of TB. More >>
Dr Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva for a disease-free India
Tuesday, 6 December 2016, 12:51 pm | Citizen News Service
(CNS): "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies" are the immortal words of Saint Mother Teresa, which sum up what Dr Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva asserts to hasten the pace of progress for a disease-free India. Dr KS Sachdeva ... More >>
It is not enough to promise, we must act to #endAIDS
Friday, 2 December 2016, 4:28 pm | Citizen News Service
(CNS): Mahatma Gandhi had once said, "If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning". Gandhi's thought resurfaced after listening to Dr Ishwar Gilada, President of AIDS ... More >>
Complacency breeds failure: Consolidate efforts to #endAIDS
Friday, 2 December 2016, 3:24 pm | Citizen News Service
(CNS): Success breeds complacency and complacency breeds failure. When the number of people affected by a disease decreases, there is a tendency to disregard it as a public health problem. More >>
Shobha Shukla: Female face of ageing in Asia Pacific
Thursday, 8 September 2016, 4:27 pm | Citizen News Service
(CNS): With declining fertility rates and increasing life expectancy, the proportion of people aged 60 and over is growing globally. There are currently 900,868 million people aged 60 or over worldwide (12.5% of the global population). Nearly two-thirds ... More >>
Screening for breast and cervical cancer is imperative
Wednesday, 18 May 2016, 5:12 pm | Citizen News Service
Screening for breast and cervical cancer is a public health imperative Akanksha Sethi Photograph is online at: http://bit.ly/1YxL7l2 Breast and cervical cancers are two major cancers among women. For decades, cervical cancer was the most common ... More >>
APLCC 2016 in Thailand: Preventing lung cancer
Friday, 13 May 2016, 4:18 pm | Citizen News Service
APLCC 2016 in Thailand: Preventing lung cancer is public health imperative Citizen News Service Image is online at: http://bit.ly/1rIIvGD Asia Pacific Lung Cancer Conference (APLCC) to Open in Chiang Mai, Thailand: 13-15 May 2016 The biennial Asia Pacific ... More >>
Asthma - can we live with it?
Monday, 2 May 2016, 3:43 pm | Citizen News Service
Asthma - can we live with it? Akanksha Sethi World Asthma Day is Tuesday, 3rd May 2016 More >>
Encephalitis and other NTDs, why is action missing?
Tuesday, 29 December 2015, 8:46 am | Citizen News Service
Despite promise to end Encephalitis and other NTDs by 2030, why is action missing? Citizen News Service More >>
Inhaled drug therapy for TB treatment
Friday, 18 December 2015, 11:55 am | Citizen News Service
Photograph is online at: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3Rfx66DgqvI/VmjUfhjymyI/AAAAAAAAPxk/9nlN8uFEFA0/s1600/IMG_0335.JPG More >>
Need to accelerate roll-out of child-friendly anti-TB drugs
Monday, 7 December 2015, 10:45 am | Citizen News Service
Half the battle won: Need to accelerate roll-out of child-friendly anti-TB drugs Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service) More >>
