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Preventive Measures for Public Health

With over 77 children dead in Gorakhpur due to a lack of public health services, the government does not seem to see public health as a political priority unless there are ...

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Conversations with Carter

Bill Gates, the man behind Windows, and one of the biggest philanthropists in the world, recently released a video of him and his wife Melinda Gate meeting former US presid...

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Mosquito Maladies

The days when malaria could be called a fatal disease are past now, but we still have a long way to go.

Research towards combating the disease has evolved at a trem...

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Opening Minds about Open Defecation

Open defecation, although, is on a decline worldwide, it is still widely practiced by 950 million open defecators in the world, 569 million of which are in India.

T...

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Meet The Kenyan Scientist Who Overcame Gender Stereotypes To Fight Malaria

Growing up in Nairobi, Kenya, Dr. Faith Osier often dreamed of curing the world of deadly diseases like malaria, an illness spread by mosquitos that kills more than 438,000...

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Malaria-free India?

Malaria is one of the oldest diseases known to mankind. In India, it is an ongoing national health burden. To curb the disease, globally, the World Health Organization (WHO...

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A Pinprick To Detect Cancer

While the humble blood test has for long been the touchstone to catch diabetes, malaria and HIV, companies are now drawing on knowledge from human genetics to make blood te...

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Why Scientists Are Listening To Insects

Researchers are reviving a field of study grounded in both music and biology: wingbeat frequency. This peculiar line of study could help us fight malaria It's a warm summer...

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World’s First Malaria Vaccine Will Be Tested In Kenya, Ghana And Malawi

The world’s first malaria vaccine will be tested on people from three African countries—Ghana, Kenya and Malawi. On April 24, the World Health Organization anno...

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Dirty Air And Water Increase Cradle Deaths In India

If this does not wake us up what will? The World Health Organization (WHO) has pressed the alarm exposing that children below five years are at the highest risk from filthy...

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