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Delhi’s air among the dirtiest in world: WHO study
An effort by the World Health Organisation to measure pollution in cities around the world has found New Delhi admits to having the dirtiest air, while Beijing's measurements, like its skies, are far from clear.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- public health
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Is India Ready for Better Healthcare?
In the heat of the world's largest election many of India's biggest political parties are promising better health coverage for the south Asian nation’s citizens.
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- Health Care
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- governance, public health
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Inconvenient Truths: How a microscope lens for phones might improve health and hygiene in developing countries
College student Thomas Larson invented stick-on microscope lenses for mobile phones that might have some interesting applications in global development, such as assessing just what is in the water.
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- Agriculture, Health Care, Technology
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Breakthrough new medicines to be made available for low- and middle-income countries
The UNITAID Executive Board has committed $160 million in new grants, including investments to ensure low- and middle-income populations have access to new high performing treatments for hepatitis C and drug-resistant tuberculosis, and the largest-yet global programme for seasonal malaria chemoprevention.
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- Health Care
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Polio’s Return After Near Eradication Prompts a Global Health Warning
Alarmed by the spread of polio to several fragile countries, the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency on Monday for only the second time since regulations permitting it to do so were adopted in 2007.
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MIT scholar fights malaria with magnets
Invention holds promise for quick, accurate diagnosis of the fatal disease, even in the most challenging situations
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- Health Care, Technology
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Ethiopia most successful in Africa at cutting maternal deaths – NGO
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Pregnancy-related deaths in Ethiopia have fallen by nearly two-thirds, making it the African country that has most successfully lowered its maternal mortality rate thanks to its lifesaving investment in female health workers and girls’ education, Save the Children said on Tuesday.
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- Health Care
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Student Venture Wins Inaugural Thorne Prize for Healthcare Innovation
A team of students from Yale SOM, Yale College, and the Yale School of Public Health won the inaugural $25,000 Thorne Prize from the Yale School of Public Health’s InnovateHealth Yale Program on April 26.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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