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Worries Grow Over Humanitarian Impacts Of 'Strongest El Nino'

The strongest El Nino on record is likely to increase the threat of hunger and disease for tens of millions of people in 2016 aid agencies say. The weather phenomenon is se...

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In Developing World, Cancer Is A Very Different Disease

In the United States the median age at which colon cancer strikes is 69 for men and 73 for women. In Chad the average life expectancy at birth is about 50. Children who sur...

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Launch Of Inactivated Polio Vaccine In India

India, once considered the most difficult place in the world to stop polio, will celebrate five years without a case this January. But our fight against the disease is not ...

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The World?? Most Underestimated Disease

The dirt roads are dusty in the summer and a quagmire when it starts to rain. The gutters, few and far between, fill up quickly with milky, putrid water. Khayelitsha, the s...

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Lancet Report: On Healthcare, India Worst Among BRICS?Countries?

India is the poorest performer on health among the five BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), a new report card on the health scene in the country ...

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Social Stigma On HIV/AIDS Should Be Pulled Down: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan feels that?COMMUNICATING?about HIV/AIDS is important in order to eliminate the social stigma associated with the disease. "As long as we keep...

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New Report Signals Country Progress In The Path To Malaria Elimination

9 DECEMBER 2015 ? BRUSSELS -?New estimates from WHO show a significant increase in the number of countries moving towards malaria elimination, with prevention efforts savin...

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Climate Change Is Killing Us, Literally — And Here’s How

Climate change may be bad for people but it's good for bugs. Germs of all kinds, as well as mosquitoes and other disease carriers, will live longer in warmer weather becaus...

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Climate Change Is Killing Us, Literally ??And Here's How

Climate change may be bad for people but it's good for bugs. Germs of all kinds, as well as mosquitoes and other disease carriers, will live longer in warmer weather becaus...

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Global Diet Is Getting Sweeter: Study

Currently, 68 per cent of packaged foods and beverages in US contain caloric sweeteners. The global diet is getting sweeter, particularly when it comes to beverages, a tren...

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