Health
UN Ebola response efforts at ‘full capacity’ following warehouse fire
Emergency personnel try to contain a fire on 18 December 2014 at a warehouse at the main humanitarian logistics base in Conakry, Guinea, which contained critical Ebola response supplies.
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Asians Need Type 2 Diabetes Screening at Lower Body Weight: Experts
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Number of Americans Taking Statins Keeps Rising: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Longer cooling, lower temperature no improvement for infant oxygen deprivation
The standard treatment for newborns whose brains were deprived of oxygen appears to work better than proposed alternatives, according to a study from a National Institutes of Health research network. The standard treatment involves lowering an infant ’s body temperature by about 6 degrees Fahrenheit for 72 hours. Attempts to improve on this treatment by further lowering body temperature or increasing the duration of cooling were of no additional benefit, the researchers concluded.
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Smartphones May Charge Up Your Thumbs
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UNICEF Ebola response: 400+ survivors receive psycho-social support and kits to restart their lives
More than 400 Ebola survivors have taken part in four separate survivor conferences over the past few days in the districts of Kailahun, Kenema and Bo, where they learned more about protecting their communities, were informed as to how their bodies defeated the disease, and received psycho-social support.
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Asians Need Type 2 Diabetes Screening at Lower Body Weight: Experts
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Experimental Ebola, Marburg Vaccines Effective in Trials
Two experimental Ebola vaccines, and one against the related Marburg virus, have proven to be safe and effective in generating an immune response against the deadly infections.
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Number of Americans Taking Statins Keeps Rising: CDC
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Human Rights
Fostering a More Humane World: The 28th Eurasian Economic Summi
Conscience, Hope, and Action: Keys to Global Peace and Sustainability
Ringing FOWPAL’s Peace Bell for the World:Nobel Peace Prize Laureates’ Visions and Actions
Protecting the World’s Cultural Diversity for a Sustainable Future
Puppet Show I International Friendship Day 2020