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Opinion: Bill Gates: Here Are My Three Goals For 2016

DAVOS, Switzerland (Project Syndicate) — We live in extraordinary times. Each day seems to bring fresh headlines about an unfolding crisis — whether it is migra...

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Health

The Case For Going Universal

Maternity entitlements are an important policy tool for encouraging better maternal health. This is why we need to do away with conditionality in cash transfer schemes

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Thought Factory

Beyond Pink and Blue!

When a baby is born, the obstetrician announces “It’s a boy” or “It’s a girl.” As babies, children learn to categorize everyone as eithe...

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Sustainable Development

Zen And The Art Of Dying Well

What is the ?right? way to die? We?re experiencing a zeitgeist moment about that. ?Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,? by Atul Gawande, is a best-selling b...

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Health

In India, Dispensers of Balm Travel To Deaths Door

A white van coursed through narrow roads along the monsoon-soaked coastline of Kerala, a state in southwestern India. Inside, Radha Upasarna, a volunteer, and two nurses lo...

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Sustainable Development

A Scorecard For Companies With A Conscience

Eleven years ago, the Vermont-based ice cream-maker Ben and Jerry?s found itself in a position other companies might have found enviable. Several firms were bidding to buy ...

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Kiran Mazumdar Shaw: Life Science Developments To Look Out For In 2016

These are exciting times for the life sciences sector as it builds on its understanding of the disease at the cellular and genetic level to usher in new and differentiated ...

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A Milestone Year For Media

The foremost was the rollout on 29 April of the Broadcast Audience Research Council India, the country’s homegrown television audience measurement data The year 2015 ...

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Health

Recycling Unused Medicines To Save Money And Lives

It always troubled Deane Kirchner to throw away good medicine. When residents of the Lincoln Glen long-term facility in San Jose, Calif., where she is the director of nursi...

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How Smart Animal Shelters Aim For ‘Zero Kill’

When Tracey Durning first met her dog, Fred, in an animal shelter in New York City in 1995, he looked underfed and was shaking uncontrollably. A five-year-old terrier mix w...

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