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A ‘post-antibiotic era’ may be approaching, warns WHO
Antimicrobial resistance threatens to make a wide range of drugs for common diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis increasingly toothless, and poor surveillance networks are hindering response efforts, a UN report finds.
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Apps emerging new health tool
Mobiles may emerge as one of the best instruments to control heart diseases. A study done by a San Francisco-based cardiologist, who was born in Vile Parle and studied at KEM Hospital in Parel, was presented at the ongoing World Congress of Cardiology in Melbourne, showing how this can be done. E-health or the use of healthcare mobile applications could help manage the chronically sick in places where patients were poor or there were very few doctors, said a press release from the Congress.
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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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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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Selling Circumcision for HIV Prevention at the Epicenter of the Global Epidemic
When Zimbabwe's most famous poet and musician, Albert Nyathi, decided to get circumcised, everyone had an opinion.
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- Education, Health Care
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Cameroon: Vaccinating Against Their Will
The growing number of child deaths from diarrhoea in Cameroon has necessitated the introduction of a new vaccine (RotaTeq) designed to protect babies under five against common types of rotaviruses that cause diarrhoea.
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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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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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