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Project Signing: World Bank Helps Bangladesh Improve Water and Sanitation Services in Chittagong

The government of Bangladesh on August 6, 2017 signed an additional $47.50 million financing agreement with the World Bank to continue construction of new water infrastructure in Chittagong, and provide access to safe water to around 650,000 inhabitants in the city.

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NCI study shows feasibility of cancer screening protocol for patients with Li-Fraumeni syndrome

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Part of a representative image of a whole body MRI of an LFS patient. Arrow denotes lesion found to be lung adenocarcinoma.

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Earthjustice: EPA Withdraws Illegal Delay Of Clean Air Safeguards

Litigation filed by public health and environmental groups and 16 states prompts EPA to back down on delaying implementing 2015 ozone standards

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A child receives treatment for asthma.

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Babies and mothers worldwide failed by lack of investment in breastfeeding

New analysis shows an investment of US$4.70 per newborn could generate US$300 billion in economic gains by 2025.

No country in the world fully meets recommended standards for breastfeeding, according to a new report by UNICEF and WHO in collaboration with the Global Breastfeeding Collective, a new initiative to increase global breastfeeding rates.

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NIH Scientists Track Zika Virus Transmission in Mice

Study analyzes how virus is spread sexually and from mother to fetus.

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Placenta from Zika-infected mouse showing heavy virus infection (green fluorescence) on the maternal side and limited infection on the fetal side. The yellow line designates maternal vs fetal tissue, and the insert shows infection of virus (arrow) on the fetal side of the placenta.

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Researchers unlock regenerative potential of cells in the mouse retina

NEI-funded researchers use a clue from zebrafish to discover the cues that reprogram Müller glia into retinal neurons.

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Regenerating Muller glia (yellow) in the mouse retina.

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“Residual echo” of ancient humans in scans may hold clues to mental disorders

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MRI data shows (left) areas of the skull preferentially affected by the amount of Neanderthal-derived DNA and (right) areas of the brain’s visual system in which Neanderthal gene variants influenced cortex folding (red) and gray matter volume (yellow).

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Call for Smart Investments to Improve Health of Miners

Southern African Development Community explores ways to respond to occupational health

The health of miners in Southern Africa, their families, and their wider communities could be improved through smart investments in initiatives aimed at tackling occupational diseases, such as TB and Silicosis, members of groups attending a two-day meeting underway in South Africa have stated.

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New Prediabetes Awareness Campaign Features Unexpected Animal Videos to Encourage Americans to Learn Their Risk

American Diabetes Association, American Medical Association, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Ad Council launch new creative awareness effort aimed at reducing the incidence of type 2 diabetes

Building on a successful campaign that helped hundreds of thousands of Americans learn their risk of developing type 2 diabetes through campaign messaging and an online risk test, the first-of-its-kind initiative to raise national awareness of prediabetes returns with an entertaining new approach. The new campaign, launching on July 25th, encourages viewers to take a one-minute prediabetes risk test to know where they stand and discover how they can decrease their risk of developing type 2 diabetes — and it does so with some adorable helpers

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In adolescents, oral Truvada and vaginal ring for HIV prevention are safe, acceptable

NIH-funded clinical trials are first of their kind to include younger adolescent girls.

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Tablets of Truvada