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Smallpox, polio and HIV: the fights we’re winning against infectious disease

Only one human disease, smallpox, has ever been eradicated entirely. But great strides have been made against lots of other major killers

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Sustainable Development

Stimulating Innovation to Create More Sustainable Cities

It won’t be long before the world’s population reaches nine billion and by 2050, 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities. All around the ...

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Health

Injectable polio vaccine more effective than oral one: Experts

The Injectable Polio Vaccine (IPV) is more effective than the oral one, experts said here on Tuesday. They emphasised that though the IPV was expensive, it carries the inac...

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Health

Rare outbreak in Tokyo as WHO warns of spread of dengue fever

As the World Health Organization (WHO) warned of the potential increase of dengue fever and other climate-sensitive illnesses, Japan saw an almost-seven decade streak of be...

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Health

The Price of Prevention: Vaccine Costs Are Soaring

There is little that Dr. Lindsay Irvin has not done for the children’s vaccines in her office refrigerator: She remortgaged her home to afford their rising prices. Sh...

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Sustainable Development

India rising to Sustainable Energy challenge

Three very different sustainable energy projects from India are among the finalists in this year’s Ashden Awards, writes Chhavi Sharma – all of them inspiring a...

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TV

Khera, Stand Up To Be Counted

Television serial makers resort to ploys to sustain viewer ship – a new track, a new character or someone getting lost, etc. This writer hadn’t been watching Ut...

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Health

Pakistani polio strain threatens global campaign

Pakistan — Just a few weeks ago, 11-month-old Shaista was pulling herself up, giggling as she took her first wobbly steps with the helping hand of her teenage mother....

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Thought Factory

Happily Ever After…?

A telegram announced her arrival into this world. Just three words, but how they changed our lives. I had to wait six months to see her. When my eyes fell upon her sleeping...

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TV

Gajendra Singh, The Indigenous Innovator

One of the most common leisure activities on picnics and trips was playing antakshri during bus/train journeys, especially; of course this is before video games, What&rsquo...

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