Opinion
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| What the Health Budget Signals, and What It Still Avoids? | | | | Dr Manorama Bakshi
Public policy scholar Thomas Dye defined public policy as what governments choose to do and choose not to do. Annual budgets make this definition tangible. They are not merely fiscal documents. They are political and economic statements that reveal priorities, constraints, and institutional intent. Equally important, they reveal what remains deferred. In health financing, omissions often matter as much as allocations.
The Union Budget 2026, 27 must therefore be assessed not only through headline increases, but through the lenses of adequacy, composition, and alignment with India’s demographic and epidemiological realities.
Headline Allocations and Policy Direction
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| | | | Meditation can reshape your brain activity | | | | Dr Vijay Garg
Meditation is widely known for reducing stress and promoting calm, but new neuroscience research shows it can also actively reshape brain activity—potentially transforming how the brain functions at both electrical and network levels.
What the Study Found
A recent study led by neurophysiologist Annalisa Pascarella of the Italian National Research Council used high-resolution brain scans and machine learning to investigate how meditation alters brain dynamics.
Researchers recruited 12 seasoned Buddhist monks from the Thai Forest tradition—each with over 15,000 hours of meditation practice—and measured their brain activity using magnetoencephalography (MEG) while they | |
| | | | National Deworming Day - Healthy Children for Healthy Nation | | | | Er. Prabhat Kishore
Children are the future of any nation. But a large chunk of children suffer from worm infections, which impacts their health, education and overall well-being. To tackle this burning issue, National De-worming Day is organized as a nationwide campaign to address the prevalence of worm infection among children. This significant public health initiative ensures a healthy future for the younger generation.
Children in the age group 1 to 19 years are more susceptible to worm infections due to their lifestyle and environment. Nationwide planned interventions are necessary to break the cycle of Parasitic worm infections, particularly Soil Transmitted Helminths (STH). So | |
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