New evidence shows significant mistreatment of women during childbirth
New evidence from a WHO-led study shows that more than one-third of women in four lower-income countries experienced mistreatment during childbirth in health facilities. Younger, less-educated women were found to be the most at risk of mistreatment,...
WHO launches first World report on vision
More than 1 billion people worldwide are living with vision impairment because they do not get the care they need for conditions like short and far sightedness, glaucoma and cataract, according to the first World report on vision issued by the World...
NIH-funded study suggests high lead levels during pregnancy linked to child obesity
Children born to women who have high blood levels of lead are more likely be overweight or obese, compared to those whose mothers have low levels of lead in their blood, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health and Health...
Household Bleach Inactivates Chronic Wasting Disease Prions
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NIH strategic research plan addresses growing tickborne diseases threat
This image shows how the design of the mouth makes ticks generally difficult to remove once they've attached...
As measles deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo top 4,000, UNICEF rushes medical kits to health centers and vaccinates thousands more children
UNICEF is vaccinating thousands more children against measles and rushing life-saving medicines to health centers across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as deaths from the world’s largest measles outbreak top 4,000.
Alarming number of women mistreated during childbirth, new UN health agency figures show
A mother and her new born baby at the National Health Center for Mother and Child,...
One billion people have preventable eye conditions, increasingly linked to lifestyle choices: UN health agency
A little girl gets a visual examination at her school in Lima, Peru.
NIH announces winners of high school mental health essay contest
First-time pregnancy complications linked to increased risk of hypertension later in life
Women who experience complications such as preterm births and preeclampsia during their first pregnancy are nearly twice more likely than women without complications to develop high blood pressure later in life — some as quickly as three years later,...
