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Polio Torch In Nigeria, As India Pledges Assistance

With Nigeria now in the eighth month since the last recorded infection of poliovirus, a global End Polio Now Torch has reached the country to help raise funds against the v...

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Pregnant Women Advised To Get Flu Vaccination

Considering the contagious nature of influenza, doctors recommend that pregnant women get immunised against the disease. The Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Soci...

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12% Pregnant Women In West Bengal Diabetic: Study

KOLKATA: It is believed to be one of the least known and rarely detected routes through which diabetes has been spreading in the country. Gestational diabetes — a for...

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Let’s Talk Health: ‘Cancer: Stories of Survivorship’

CNN-IBN, India’s most awarded English news channel, in collaboration with the Apollo Hospitals presents ‘Let’s Talk Health’ – a unique show th...

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Global Warming Is Already Clobbering The Amazon

WHEN IT COMES to doing research in the Amazon, Oliver Phillips says the worst part is the sweat bees. Phillips, an ecologist from the University of Leeds who has been ...

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Defeating Polio, The Disease That Paralyzed America

Tens of thousands of Americans — in the first half of the 20th century — were stricken by poliomyelitis. Polio, as it’s known, is a disease that attacks t...

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Fighting TB With A Drive-In Film And Test

Some lives hang on the distance of dusty roads, with a cure out of reach. Take tuberculosis, an ancient disease that still kills about 4,100 people each day around the worl...

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Making A Medicine As Easy To Find As A Can Of Coke

Diarrheal disease, which kills a million children younger than 5 each year, has an image problem. It doesn’t raise much alarm in industrialized countries, where it is...

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How Safe And Hygienic Is Your Food? Find Out

There are over 200 diseases caused by contaminated food or drinking water that contain harmful bacteria, parasites, viruses and chemical substances. Millions fall ill and m...

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Political Apathy, Unplanned Urbanisation Make Vector-Borne Diseases Hard To Control in India

Only 60 per cent of the total plan outlay for vector-borne diseases spent between 2007 to2013; lack of co-ordination between ministries and state agencies a major hurdle in...

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