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Injectable polio vaccine to be introduced from October
India will introduce injectable polio vaccine in its universal immunisation programme from October. This is a part of the World health Organisation’s polio endgame strat...
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Climate change marchers told to hire private security firm
Campaign Against Climate Change says Britons now have to ?pay to protest? after police refuse to close roads along route The right to stage demonstrations in Britain could be ...
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The gender of a sound byte
Dear Barkha, This is taking up from where we last left off. The last time we met at a dinner party in Mumbai, you had enquired why I always turned down requests to appear on y...
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The Dangers of Vaccine Denial
First, a word on vaccines: They have revolutionized public health. Can you name the discoverer of the smallpox vaccine? Probably not: Edward Jenner is little known today. He l...
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The U.S. Military Worries About Climate Change, So Why Don't Republicans?
On Friday, the Obama administration put climate change on the par with other global challenges like cybersecurity, terrorism, and Russian aggression, warning in a 35-page nati...
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India Hits Its U.N. Poverty-Cutting Target, but Misses Others
India is on track to cut poverty in half by the end of this year, compared to 2000 levels, but needs to do more to improve education and empower women, a United Nations report...
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TN aims to bring down maternal mortality rate, says TNHSP Director
The Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project (TNHSP) is working towards reducing Tamil Nadu’s maternal mortality rate (MMR) to 45 per one lakh live births by 2017 from the curr...
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Now there’s a way to diagnose HIV with a smartphone
Researchers at Columbia University have developed a gadget that can test for syphilis and HIV via a smartphone or tablet. Here’s how it works: The “dongle” d...
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Fossil fuel companies are the greatest threat to life’s party – not greens
People who argue it’s a good idea to respect nature’s thresholds get labelled spoilsports, but the real party-poopers are those who recognise no limits at all &ldq...
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CAN MOBILE BANKING REVOLUTIONIZE THE LIVES OF THE POOR?
IN THE VILLAGE OF Sori along the banks of Kenya’s Lake Victoria, fishing has long been the lynchpin of the local economy. Jobs here are largely divided by gender: men ca...
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