HIV infection due to unsafe medical injections may have fallen by almost 90% worldwide in decade after 2000

The number of HIV infections in low- and middle-income acquired due to unsafe medical injections by 87% between 2000 and 2010, investigators report in PLOS One. The authors...

Bonn climate talks: New fundingmechanism proposed at side event totackle energy poverty

CSE and What Next Forum say Globally Funded Feed-in Tariff Mechanism

(G-FiT) for enabling renewable energy has the potential to provide energy access to all as well...

India to adopt uniform licensing for gas, oil exploration

Policy proposed to bring uniformity in contractual provisions for exploration and production of all types of hydrocarbon resources, says minister at ongoing World Petroleum...

Patrick Dempsey Partners With CrowdMed To Help Solve Difficult Medical Cases

Crowd Med, an online crowd sourced medical diagnosis platform that helps solve even the world’s most difficult medical cases, has announced that actor Patrick Dempsey...

Dizzee Rascal, Jesse J, Pitbull And More To Rock Fusion Festival

The Fusion Festival returns to Birmingham in the UK this year with a line up including Dizzee Rascal, The Wanted, Jessie J, Pixie Lott, The Vamps, Pitbull, Foxes and Lawson...

Can Social Accountability Help Ensure Rights and Better Participation in Maternal Health Services?

Over the last two decades, social accountability has emerged as a strategy to make health services more responsive to community needs. It’s an approach that creates a...

India invokes ‘right to grow’ to tell rich nations of its stand on future climate change negotiations

In what may be a strong signal to rich nations on the issue of climate change, New Delhi on Tuesday said the developing countries, including India, have a “right to g...

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Environment has been intrinsic to our oral traditions much before we developed writing. But it is only in the past decade or two that environmental literature has become ma...

Pamela Anderson Speaks Out Against Cruel Animal Shows

Pamela Anderson has written to PETA supporters asking them to join her in refusing to attend marine parks such as SeaWorld. “As someone who cares deeply about animals...