Health

General Assembly President urges greater use of mobile technologies in health

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General Assembly President Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser

National Association for Proton Therapy and Pediatric Proton Foundation Release First Snapshot of Treatment Data on Children at U.S. Proton Centers

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Tempest In A Lunch Box: Arsenic Traces In Apple Juice

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Fears over arsenic in apple juice are overblown, experts say.

Fear Of Antidepressants Leads People To Shun Treatment

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As common as antidepressant use has become, many depressed people still fear treatment.

Why You Should Wash A Melon Before Chowing Down

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Do you really know where those cantaloupes have been?

Substantial drop in child mortality around the globe, UN figures reveal

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The number of young children who die each day has plunged over the past two decades, new...

Battle against deadly lifestyle diseases figures high on UN agenda next week

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An unhealthy diet is one of the major risk factors for a range of chronic diseases linked to obesity

Novel anthrax vaccine and antitoxin being developed with federal support

The advanced development of a novel next-generation anthrax vaccine and a new type of anthrax antitoxin have received support through new contracts funded the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development...

KENYA: Martha Lebasale, "Hunger made me switch from pastoralism to hawking"

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Martha Lebasale

THAILAND: Neonatal care for refugees by refugees

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A baby sleeps inside a homemade blue light incubator in Mae La