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Bill Gates Predicts Eradication Of Polio In Pakistan By 2017

Bill Gates said Wednesday that "with any luck" polio will be eradicated by 2017 in the last two countries where it remains active, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Health

3 Striking Charts Show How Vaccines Have Impacted 20th Century Diseases

Despite the few very loud voices still claiming vaccines are dangerous (and getting a lot of attention in the process), there is overwhelming evidence that they make the wo...

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Sustainable Development

The Globalisation Of Bad Food And Poor Health: Sustainable Development Or Sustainable Profits?

The proportion of deaths due to cancer around the world increased from 12 percent in 1990 to 15 percent in 2013. Globally, cancer is already the second-leading cause of dea...

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Health

Communicable Diseases Rise 32 Perccent In 5 Years, Spending Up 7 Percent

Spending on programmes to control India’s three main communicable diseases — malaria, tuberculosis and leprosy A — increased seven percent over five years...

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Health

World Health Day To Focus On Food Safety This Year

Food poisoning and diarrhoeal infection are the two leading causes of food-borne illnesses in India. Moreover, due to lack of laboratories and shortage of manpower, many ou...

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Health

New Ultra-Sensitive Test For Cancer, HIV Developed

A new ultra-sensitive test has been designed to detect diseases including HIV and cancer, it may prove 10,000 times more effective than current diagnostic tools, say Stanfo...

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Documentary / Shorts

END7: How to Shock a Celebrity

We asked celebrities including Emily Blunt, Eddie Redmayne and Priyanka Chopra to watch a powerful new video. See how they reacted to people suffering from neglected tropic...

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Human Rights

Policy Shame: Sick, Rare And Ignored

Rare diseases are a diverse set of over 7,000 different conditions that afflict an estimated 1 in 20 Indians and 350 million people worldwide. Put simply, it means that eve...

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Health

Decline In Tobacco Users In India: Healthy Sign But Smoke Signals Still Worrying

Smoking kills over one million people in India annually and is the fourth leading cause of non-communicable diseases (NCD) such as cancer and heart diseases When the Nation...

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Health

WHO Outlines Ways To Prevent And Mitigate Childhood Hearing Loss

Nearly 32 million children across the world live with disabling hearing loss. A new WHO report, "Childhood hearing loss: act now, here’s how", suggests that 60% of th...

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