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WHO Doubles Recommended Number Of Health Visits During Pregnancy

The World Health Organization revised guidelines on antenatal care on Monday, saying pregnant women should have twice as many contacts with health providers - eight - as it...

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Sustainable Development

When Genetic Screening Goes Very, Very Wrong

Teenagers don't routinely drop dead of cardiac failure. As a cause of death among individuals aged 12 to 19, heart disease barely even rates, staking out a mere 3 perc...

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Health

11 Health Innovations To Drastically Cut Maternal And Child Mortality Rates

Achieving the ambitious target to end maternal and child deaths, enshrined in the sustainable development goals (SDGs), will require ingenuity. The good news is that 11 hea...

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Health

Teenage Pregnancies: Why Adivasi Babies Are Dying In Dadra And Nagar Haveli

In June, 18-year-old Parsula Takre attended the funeral of her first child who she did not have a chance to name. A few villagers gathered and buried her son. Takre gave bi...

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TV

True Review Television - Prime Time’s Little Thespian

During Navratri, a cable channel made capital with Falguni Pathak live all nine days at a venue in suburban Mumbai. The entrance must have been unimaginable, but judging fr...

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Health

Maternal Mortality Rate In Five Districts 55% Higher Than State Average

A 13-year-old girl in Koppal who was married off at the age of 12 and got pregnant when she was 13, died even before she could get a grasp on life. While her body couldn't ...

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Hollywood

Abbas Kiarostami Died: Martin Scorsese Pays Tribute

'He was one of those rare artists with a special knowledge of the world' Revered Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami died today in Paris at the age of 76. A cinephile's favouri...

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Health

Need For A Robust Steel Framework For Health In India

The latest edition of Unicef’s State of the World’s Children report suggests that 1.2 million children under the age of five died of totally preventable disease...

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Human Rights

Widow Rituals Fuel Rituals In Africa: From Cleaning Corpses To Sex With Strangers

When Clarisse's husband died of malaria last year in the Cameroonian city of Douala, she was kicked out of their home by his family and forced to marry his brother. After h...

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Health

Premature Deliveries, Low Birth Weight Major Causes Of Infant Deaths: Maharashtra Govt Audit

The audit for the Pune circle from April 2015 to March 2016 reported 89 maternal deaths from Pune rural, followed by 59 from Solapur and 25 from Satara. A total of 1,201 in...

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