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Why India Needs Its Quack Doctors.

Toward the end of last year, reports emerged that the Liver Foundation, a health NGO in India’s West Bengal state, had started working with local quack doctors. The t...

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Environment

There's One Thing That Could Make The Zika Virus Much More Dangerous — Climate Change

The mosquito-born Zika virus was declared an international public health emergency last week — a designation last used for Ebola — and could infect as many as 4...

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Environment

Why Eradicating Earth’s Mosquitoes To Fight Disease Is Probably A Bad Idea

But what would a world free of mosquitoes look like? Would it be an Earth in which the infectious diseases that plague millions are completely, permanently, and mercifully ...

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Environment

Amazing Things Happened When New Delhi Halved The Number Of Cars On The Road

On January 1, India's capital made an attempt to address its status as the world's most polluted big city, according to the World Health Organization, by implementing a tem...

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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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Environment

Air Pollution Is Causing Iran To Cancel Soccer Games And Keep Kids Home From School

Tehran's air quality index hovered around 159 on Wednesday ? which is more than three times the World Health Organization's advised maximum of between 0 and 50. Iranian med...

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Health

What Is The Ideal Cesarean Rate?

For many years, discussions around the ??deal cesarean rate??tended to refer to a 1985 World Health Organization (WHO) consensus statement?that recommended a population-bas...

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Health

Maternal Mortality Declining But Still Above Goal

Maternal mortality rates have dropped substantially over the past quarter century but still are not declining fast enough to meet ambitious international goals for eradicat...

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Health

WHO Survey Reveals Public Misunderstanding About Antibiotic Resistance

Public knowledge about antibiotic resistance is still weak and this is something we should worry about. A new survey conducted in a number of countries shows that people ha...

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Health

Tuberculosis Ranks Alongside HIV As Leading Killer Worldwide: WHO Report

In 2014, tuberculosis (TB) killed 1.5 million people, 400,000 of whom were HIV-positive, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday, ranking the disease alongsid...

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