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Maternal Mortality Declining But Still Above Goal

Maternal mortality rates have dropped substantially over the past quarter century but still are not declining fast enough to meet ambitious international goals for eradicat...

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Environment

China's 'Airpocalypse' Prompts Official Pledge to Cut Pollution

China will lower emissions from major polluting power plants by 60 percent by 2020, Chinese officials announced on Wednesday. The commitment?comes amidst ongoing climate ch...

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Karnataka Hamlet Is India?s 1st Smokeless Village

Until last month, Thimmakka had to blow her lungs out even to make a cup of coffee. And this had been her ritual for 40 years now. Not any more. Her kitchen is now fit...

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Health

In India, IBM?? Watson Will Aid Cancer Care Where Doctors Are Scarce

IBM and a?large hospital system in India have partnered to?diagnose and treat cancer care in a country of 1.2 billion residents who often cannot access oncologists, leaving...

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Gender

Report Says Women Depicted More In Pakistani Media But Men Still Dominate

There has been an increase in the presence of women in mainstream Pakistani media in the past five years, it emerged on Wednesday. According to a Global Media Monitoring Pr...

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Environment

Breakthrough Energy Coalition.

The World Needs Widely Available Energy?that is reliable, affordable and does not produce carbon. The only way to accomplish that goal is by developing new tools to power t...

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Hollywood

Nicole Kidman Donating Theatre Earnings To Charity.

Nicole Kidman is donating her pay from her recent West End run to charity in memory of her late father. The Hollywood actress won rave reviews and a Best Actress prize...

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Health

HIV Cases Dip, High-Risk Groups Still A Worry

HIVAIDS epidemic.? The first 29 years were marked with victory as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) metamorphosed from being the deadliest word in public health to jus...

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Asia's Aids Epidemic Needs Urgent Action To Prevent Even More Deaths

At a time when HIV is in retreat globally, new infections are on the rise among some groups of adolescents in the Asia-Pacific region and globally.
This increase is la...

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Health

Mumbai: MARD Starts Drive In Favour Of Pre-Marital HIV Testing

To encourage pre-marital testing in order to avoid sexually transmitted diseases, the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (Mard) has decided to run a one-...

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