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Why Antibiotics Are Precious

You need only go back 70 years to a time when a scratch and a common infection could prove deadly. Routine surgery and childbirth could be a hazardous business. Penicillin ...

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World Breastfeeding Week: Here’s how to take care of yourself post-pregnancy

As a new mother, you’ve endured the long wait, and possibly the discomfort of pregnancy. Soon after delivery though, parenting responsibilities set in, as does the ro...

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WHO Calls For Urgent Action To Curb Hepatitis

The World Health Organisations (WHO) is to use the 2015 World Hepatitis Day, slated for July 28 to highlight the urgent need for countries to enhance action aimed at preven...

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A P J Abdul Kalam: Antibiotic Resistance Alarming Threat To Global Public Health

Speaking on the eve of ‘Doctors Day’, Kalam discussed about how the world was moving towards “post-antibiotic era”, in which common infections and m...

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Farhan Akhtar To Spread Awareness About Influenza.

The campaign is an educational initiative by Sanofi Pasteur India, the vaccines division of pharmaceutical company Sanofi and supports the cause to create awareness on seas...

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New Single-Dose Drug May Treat Malaria

A new drug may treat malaria in a single dose and prevent infection being transmitted by mosquito bites to other people, scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have fo...

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AIDS Epidemic Can End By 2030: UNAIDS

India has achieved a reduction of more than 20 per cent in new HIV infections between 2000 and 2014, according to a report released by UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Prog...

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Open Defecation Affects Pregnancy Outcomes Too, New Study Finds.

Eradicating open defecation has become one of the biggest, and most daunting, challenges faced by the Narendra Modi government. Poor sanitation practices like open defecati...

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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. ...

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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 dise...

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