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Focus Must Be On Children ‘Left Behind’, Says UN Study
The 11th edition of Progress for Children: Beyond Averages, a UNICEF (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) report card on child-related Millennium Dev...
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Colour-Changing Condom Can Help Detect Sexually Transmitted Infection
A group of students at the Isaac Newton Academy in Essex, England, have invented a “smart” condom to detect sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the wearer. Cal...
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Drastic Acceleration Of HIV Fight Needed To Stop AIDS Resurgence
The global HIV epidemic could see a resurgence in just five years without a drastic acceleration in efforts to prevent and treat the AIDS virus, the United Nations and disease...
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Citizen Media Shows Why India Is Unlikely To Reach Its Millennium Goals Target For Maternal Mortality
According to the UN Millennium Development Goals, India should bring down its maternal mortality rate (MMR) to 109 per 100,000 live births by 2015. This is a tough ask, as fro...
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Maternal And Infant Health: The Urban Disadvantage
Medscape: This year’s report noted that child mortality rates are at least twice as high among poor urban children compared with their richer counterparts—a gap th...
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Taking A Bite Out Of Cancer
A few months ago, I was diagnosed with cancer. In my case, it was an early detection and a relatively easy set course of action. I am well on the way to recovery, thank you. I...
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Fatherhood And Maternal Health: An Overlooked But Lifesaving Connection
It goes without saying that Father’s Day is a time to celebrate the important role that a father plays in his children’s lives. As a father (and, recently, a grand...
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What Makes Community Health Care Work?
In response to Tuesday’s column about two programs in India that train relatively uneducated women as their villages’ health workers, readers provided an avalanche...
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MD/Phd Student Expanding Research And Advocacy For Health Care In India
UMass Medical School students are working in Gujarat, India, this summer to improve health care in the mostly low-income rural region. They are conducting health disparities r...
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The Misconceptions About Mental Illness We Need To Unlearn.
Mental illness isn’t like a sinus infection. You can’t just wait it out or take a pill to make everything go away. Our brains are complex and enigmatic, and mental...
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