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Why the Health of Mothers and Newborns Is Inseparable

I visited Maryam when her baby was 2 weeks old. I had been meaning to go sooner, but the steep, icy roads up to her ‘house’ in Kabul prohibited an earlier visit...

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Hollywood

Leonardo DiCaprio Named As United Nations Messenger Of Peace

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has designated Academy Award-nominated actor and committed environmental activist, Leonardo DiCaprio, as a UN Messenger of Peac...

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Health

Going and Listening to India

Melinda and I will visit India later this month. I’ve been there many times over the years, but I’m especially excited about this trip. For one thing, India has...

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Health

MIT hackathon takes on true healthcare design challenge: The breast pump

This MIT Media Lab team will be leading a hackathon to modernize the breast pump. Most of the time, I think men can’t handle the reality of women’s health. It&r...

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Sustainable Development

The human cost of sex trafficking

In the sex trade, the demand for young girls is high due to a belief that sex with children holds less risk of HIV infection, and, in fact, can cure the disease As the cust...

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Health

New drug target could prevent major global cause of maternal death

Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) occurs when the uterus fails to contract vigorously after childbirth and the mother loses 500mls or more of blood in the 24 hours after deliver...

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Health

Put the Physical in Education

When confronted with an overly active child, many exasperated teachers and parents respond the same way: “Sit still!” It might be more effective, though, to enc...

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Environment

We?re saving the ozone layer, but climate change is a different matter

The most environmental successful treaty ever, the 1987 Montreal Protocol, which banned CFCs, is bearing fruit A t last, there?s some good news. The Earth?s vital ozone lay...

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Sustainable Development

The sanitation challenge

The U.N. set the Millennium Development Goals or the MDG between 2000 and 2015. Goals 4 and 7 was to halve the number of people without access to improved water or sanitati...

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Hollywood

Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon join forces in fight against cancer

It was a bit of a BFF fest in California last night as Hollywood’s actors, actresses and singers came out to support a cancer charity. Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Ani...

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