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At long last, WHO certifies Bangladesh polio-free
Through a robust national immunization programme, Bangladesh mostly rid itself of the crippling disease in 2003. But the country reported a final case of poliomyelitis in Marc...
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Political Apathy, Unplanned Urbanisation Make Vector-Borne Diseases Hard To Control in India
Only 60 per cent of the total plan outlay for vector-borne diseases spent between 2007 to2013; lack of co-ordination between ministries and state agencies a major hurdle in im...
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Reproductive rights and wrongs: How discrimination blights maternity care
Last week, Brazil becomes the first country to pay compensation to the family of a woman who died in childbirth as a result of negligence and discriminatory practices in mater...
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Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to Disease in Two Big Studies
People with low vitamin D levels are more likely to die from cancer and heart disease and to suffer from other illnesses, scientists reported in two large studies published on...
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Child’s first 1,000 days critical to future health, experts say
Washington D.C., Apr 1, 2014 / 02:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The earliest days of a child’s development, both in the womb and after birth, are essential to human developmen...
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Non-city residents ‘contributing to high maternal mortality rates in Mumbai’
The maternal mortality rate in Mumbai is being distorted by patients from outside the city, an official has stated. According to Dr Padmaja Keskar, deputy executive health off...
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Active mothers have active children, says study
A British study of 500 women and their four-year-olds has found that physically agility in children is related to how active their mothers are. Parents are strong influences ...
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Tuberculosis affects 1 million children annually: Study
Harvard researchers believe that over one million children suffer from tuberculosis annually — twice the number previously thought to have TB. Experts from the universit...
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India Proves Why Vaccines Work – Here’s How That Country Solved a National Epidemic
The anti-vaccination movement has yet another inconvenient truth to explain: the near-complete eradication of the polio virus across an entire country thanks to a sweeping cam...
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Maternal Mortality Rate down to 178 from 600
India had a high burden of maternal and child mortality in the 1990s, but has made significant strides in stemming the deaths, a senior health ministry official said on Thursd...
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