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Pediatric Patients Meet With First Lady to Advocate for Children's Hospitals

Fifty-four pediatric patients from every state, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico visited with First Lady Michelle Obama on Monday while raising awareness for childr...

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Health

The one dollar contraceptive set to make family planning easier

An agreement has been signed which will make contraceptive injections available to women in 69 of the world’s poorest countries.

It is an inj...

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Sustainable Development

Empowering women is the smart approach to sustainable development

As the Asia Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment is convened in Bangkok, UN ESCAP executive secretary Shamsad Akthar shares that empo...

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Health

Smallpox, polio and HIV: the fights we’re winning against infectious disease

Only one human disease, smallpox, has ever been eradicated entirely. But great strides have been made against lots of other major killers

You are, ...

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TV

NO SENSITIVITY FOR A CHILD’S RIGHT TO ENTERTAINMENT

If one were to do a cross channel run, not a single one topped the Children?s Day celebrations. News channels like CNN IBN did their Citizen Journalist rounds with children...

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Health

Grand Challenges India organises workshop on maternal and child health in Mumbai

Globally, over 6 million children under the age of five die each year, and approximately 165 million (26%) of the world’s children have stunted growth jeopardizing su...

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Hollywood

Dartmoor Zoo in charity crowd funding bid

Family-owned Dartmoor Zoo in Devon has launched a crowd funding appeal to raise £1.6m.

Zoo director Ben Mee said the zoo was losing money and a charity’...

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Environment

Coal Rush in India Could Tip Balance on Climate Change

?India?s development imperatives cannot be sacrificed at the altar of potential climate changes many years in the future,? India?s power minister, Piyush Goyal, said at a r...

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Sustainable Development

Coal Rush in India Could Tip Balance on Climate Change

“India’s development imperatives cannot be sacrificed at the altar of potential climate changes many years in the future,” India’s power minister, P...

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Health

Why Sterilization Is The Most Popular Form Of Family Planning

For women, sterilization is usually done as tubal ligation, a minimally invasive surgery where the Fallopian tubes are cut and tied off. For men, it’s the vasectomy, ...

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