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Activists Claim India’s Free HIV/AIDS Program Is In ‘Shambles’
India has run out of critical supplies under its state-run HIV/AIDS program, activists say, leaving tens of thousands of infected patients without access to life-saving drugs....
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WISH joins Gates Foundation to highlight maternal care as global priority
The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), an initiative of Qatar Foundation announced, a joint effort with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to release a report hig...
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The Sickeningly Low Vaccination Rates at Silicon Valley Day Cares
The scientists, technologists, and engineers who populate Silicon Valley and the California Bay Area deserve their reputation as innovators, building entire new economies on t...
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Stanford hosts inaugural Childx conference this spring
Registration is now open for the first ever Childx conference, a TED-style conference focused on inspiring innovation in pediatric and maternal health. The conference will bri...
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Vaccine Myths Debunked by Doctors
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that babies get their first combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine at 12 months and a second dose at age 4...
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The World May No Longer Know These 4 Deadly Diseases By 2030
In all of human history, we’ve only ever been able to completely wipe out one disease: smallpox. Declared eradicated by the World Health Organization in 1980, smallpox w...
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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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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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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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