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Traditional conservative, patriarchal culture is preventing Asian women diagnosed with breast cancer from seeking treatment in time. Sonia Sarkar reports Khoula Mahroof, 43, was barely five months into her marriage when she identified a lump in her right breast. A fortnight later, a biopsy report confirmed that she had third stage breast cancer. Her family members were in shock. “It was the hardest thing to convince family and relatives that I had been diagnosed with breast cancer and that I needed medical treatment to get cured. They were in denial,” says Mahroof, who lives in Islamabad, ...

/PRNewswire/ -- The spotlight is poised to shine on India as the G20 Health Minister's Meeting, under the India's G20 Presidency, kick off from August 17 to...

Long working hours, low pay, and the legacy of the pandemic are pushing healthcare workers in South East Asia to leave the sector, worsening chronic workforce shortages, reports Sonia Sarkar When 46 year old Eli Mazur injured his head after a fall, he rushed to the state run hospital in Xuyen Moc, 100 kilometres from Ho Chi Minh City. After running from one end to the other for about 30 minutes, Mazur found only two nurses, who offered to suture the cut. “It was difficult to find emergency healthcare in a rural area,” the life science lawyer at YKVN recalls. His experience is common for m...

A few months back I invited a few colleagues to my home for dinner to celebrate a milestone at work. Initially I was unsure about what to order, but since I was having them over the first time, butter chicken was the natural choice. Between platefuls of basmati rice and buttered naan bread, the five of us polished off two boxes...

The film festival has drawn participants from Kashmir to Kanyakumari.