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Maternal Supplementation Prevents Preterm Births

Maternal micronutrient supplementation is able to reduce preterm births and low birth weights, according to a study involving over 44,000 Bangladeshi pregnancies. Asian Sci...

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Environment

Global campaign aims to inspire British cities to choose 100% clean energy

Hope that example set by Munich, Seattle, Lima and others will prompt pledges to commit to zero emissions by 2050 Environmental campaigners are hoping that 2015 will be the...

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Health

Conditions caused due to poor sanitation the reason for large number of maternal and newborn deaths

Lack of safe water, sanitation and hygiene in birth settings is killing mothers and newborns in the developing world, shows a new study. In a flagship paper, 16 researchers...

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Thought Factory

Looking Back With Concern- Health 2014

A Snapshot of Global Health- 2014

  • Between 2000 and 2012, measles deaths worldwide have been cut by almost 80% ??from 56...

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Thought Factory

An Alternative Exploration of Geopolitics

Hindsight is always 20/20. Subjective to the present, we often tend to overlook patterns and correlation until the objectivity parts the seas to a broader picture. It was o...

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Health

Maternal Depression Linked to Risky Adolescent Health Behaviors in Children

Maternal depression experienced by a mother can affect her children too, says a new Canadian study. According to the research as published in the journal Pediatrics, childr...

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Environment

Climate Change Could Spread Dengue to the Andes

A new study warns parts of South America currently at a low risk of dengue could see many more cases of the disease in the coming years. Dengue fever could soon spread to S...

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Sustainable Development

India Slashes Health Budget, Already Among World's Lowest:

The government has ordered a cut of nearly 20 percent in its 2014/15 healthcare budget due to fiscal strains, putting at risk key disease control initiatives in a country w...

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Health

India to reach replacement levels of fertility by 2020

Fertility is falling faster than expected in India, and the country is on track to reach replacement levels of fertility as soon as 2020, new official data shows. The 2013 ...

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Environment

We can't let climate change turn droughts, flash floods and mudslides into the new normal

Between power outages, deluging rains, flash floods, mudslides and record droughts, California is quickly becoming unrecognizable ? all the bellwethers of an ecosystem out ...

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