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Solar Power- A Shot in the Arm for India's Health Centers

For Dr Vinayak Salunke, flashlights worth less than $10 each are one of the most valuable assets at the Vihamandra health centre in Aurangabad in India's western state of M...

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Health

Invest In Children’s Health To Secure India’s Future Well-Being

India, with the world’s largest youth population, buzzes with the hopes, aspirations and dreams of the young. Nearly half (45%) of India’s population is below 2...

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Health

Discourse: Returning Women Their Body

The Supreme Court has recently intervened in cases where women have sought abortion because the foetus is deformed, triggering demands to allow women to determine the cours...

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Sustainable Development

Tiny Silk Batteries Dissolve Within Weeks

A flexible battery made of gauzy silk films could power electronics and then melt away after a preset number of days (ACS Energy Lett. 2017, DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00...

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Meet The Man Who Stopped Thousands Of People Becoming HIV Positive

A few days before Christmas 2016, a phone call took place that no one could have predicted. One of the world’s most esteemed HIV doctors, Professor Sheena McCormack &...

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Iceland Fixed Its Teen Substance-Abuse Problem By Giving Them Something Better To Do

In 1992, Iceland had all its 14, 15, and 16-year-olds fill out a survey about their experience with drugs and alcohol. 25% smoked daily, and over 40% had gotten drunk in th...

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Human Rights

No Debate On Healthcare In India

My former domestic help came to work one day in the early weeks of demonetisation, looking dreadfully ill. She had fever and the local pharmacies were refusing to sell her ...

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Sustainable Development

Reprogramming Organs Could Be The Future Of Transplants

When waiting for an organ transplant, patients have a lot to worry about: whether the body will fight against the organ, the effects immunosuppressant drugs could have on t...

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Gender

How Tattoos Help Sexual Assault Survivors Reclaim Their Bodies

When Marti was 18 years old, she was raped by multiple men at a frat party. She was a virgin. "It happened in the beginning of my first semester freshman year," she recalls...

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Health

Injectable contraceptive: A shot in the arm for women’s autonomy

To every solution, there is a problem. This seems to be the dictum followed by many in our country and the case of the injectable contraceptive is no exception. So, we see ...

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