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The Benefits of Mobile Health, on Hold

The world now has 5 billion mobile phones – one for every person over 15. Africa has a billion people and 750 million phones, and mobile is growing so fast there that...

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Health

India Performs Badly In Breastfeeding, Ensuring Healthy Diet To Children

India has shown little improvement in breastfeeding infants and ensuring healthy diet to young children, a report by the Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India (BPNI) and...

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Environment

The UN Says Gaza Could Be Uninhabitable in Less Than Five Years

The findings of the UN's Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) echoed an earlier assessment made by the UN in 2011, which determined that Gaza would not be livable b...

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Gender

How Countries Can Improve Women’s Access To Water

Because of water’s multidimensional role in economic development and poverty reduction, addressing the constraints that women and girls face in accessing and managing...

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Environment

The Ten-Year Mission To Study All The Ways The Arctic Is Doomed

Called the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, or ABoVE for short, the large-scale study will combine on-the-ground field studies as well as data from remote sensors?su...

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Health

Jharkhand At India’s Heart Of Maternal-Care Darkness.

This week, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced – quoting the World Health Organisation (WHO) – that India was free of maternal and neo-natal tetanus, the ...

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Hollywood

Habitat For Humanity Send Their Thoughts And Prayers To Jimmy Carter.

During a press conference this week, President Jimmy Carter announced that he will begin treatment for melanoma. Habitat For Humanity has released a statement to say their ...

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Gender

What Can India Teach Us About Gender Equality?

A central driver of economic growth is the increased role of women. This comes in many forms: increased female labor force participation, reduced discrimination and wage di...

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Gender

When It Comes To Health And Wellness Tech, Women Are Leading The Way

We’ve seen the data: both the number of women in leadership positions in healthcare and women starting tech companies are astronomically low. But these figures didn&r...

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Health

Do the latest waves of health apps really improve patient care?

At the offer of a play on the iPad in the anaesthetics nurse’s hand, five-year-old William Deans instantly forgot his panic triggered by the sight of the operating th...

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