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WHO Doubles Recommended Number Of Health Visits During Pregnancy

The World Health Organization revised guidelines on antenatal care on Monday, saying pregnant women should have twice as many contacts with health providers - eight - as it...

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Human Rights

No Mother Left Behind: How Conflict Exacerbates The Global Maternal Health Challenge

DOT-MOM No Mother Left Behind: How Conflict Exacerbates the Global Maternal Health Challenge November 7, 2016 By Nancy Chong AMISOM-clinic Since the end of World War II, th...

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Health

Low Birth Weight And Premature Delivery Major Causes Of Newborn Deaths In India

The death of every other newborn in India can be traced to either low birth weight (LBW) or premature delivery. The death of every other newborn in India can be traced to e...

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Alternative Entertainment

Why This Software Engineer Turned Artist From Bhopal Was Picked To Paint Scenes For A Film On Van Gogh

Van Gogh is easily one of the most reputed artists in the post-impressionist movement, which took root in France in the early 1920s. But the story of his tragic death is mo...

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Sustainable Development

When Genetic Screening Goes Very, Very Wrong

Teenagers don't routinely drop dead of cardiac failure. As a cause of death among individuals aged 12 to 19, heart disease barely even rates, staking out a mere 3 perc...

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Health

11 Health Innovations To Drastically Cut Maternal And Child Mortality Rates

Achieving the ambitious target to end maternal and child deaths, enshrined in the sustainable development goals (SDGs), will require ingenuity. The good news is that 11 hea...

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Health

Mobile Diagnostic Device That Helps Pregnant Women In Rural India Receive Timely Medical Attention

A six-page report published in September by the established UK medical journal Lancet provided some shocking figures about maternal mortality in India. It revealed that in ...

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Human Rights

How To Find A Resilient Solution To Extreme Poverty

In the last two weeks, the devastation in Haiti from Hurricane Mathew has grown more and more shocking. Families woke up to see their neighborhoods in tatters, and the numb...

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Sustainable Development

What Is Neurocapitalism And Why Are We Living In It?

It's a fact: we are bang in the middle of the Anthropocene. We have changed the destiny of our planet and its ecosystems, to the point that human actions have become as pow...

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Environment

The Great Barrier Reef Is Under Severe Stress – But Not Dead Yet

Reports of the death of the Great Barrier Reef have been greatly exaggerated, scientists have said, after the publication of an “obituary” for the vas...

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