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Addressing stillbirths

18/04/2011 04:49:00 م

Over 2.6 million babies are stillborn globally every year, but a million of these could have been prevented if mothers had received proper care during pregnancy and birth.... More Details

Immunization week: a major force for child survival

21/04/2011 05:37:00 م

21 April 2011 -- During immunization week, outreach teams carry out large-scale vaccination campaigns against diseases like diphtheria, hepatitis A and B, measles, pneumococcal disease, polio, rotavir... More Details

Cord blood stem cell transplant hopes lifted

18/01/2010 03:16:00 ص

A technique which may eventually remove the need for matched bone marrow transplants has been used in humans for the first time.... More Details

Vaccination campaign saving children in the Horn of Africa

07/08/2011 03:38:00 م

05 August 2011 -- The Horn of Africa is facing its worst drought in over 50 years; child malnutrition rates are already high and are expected to rise. Malnourished children are more prone to sicknesse... More Details

A striking idea: 2 moons became one

07/08/2011 03:37:00 م

WASHINGTON - Earth once had two moons, astronomers suggested Wednesday. But in a spectacle that might have beguiled poets, lovers, and songwriters if only they had been around to see it billions of ye... More Details

Federal Government Seizes Cyanide Antidote Kits from California Company

23/07/2010 08:03:00 ص

At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Marshals today seized $39,000 worth of products labeled as cyanide antidote kits from Keystone Pharmaceuticals in Laguna Hills, California... More Details

Innovation Winners Celebrated Following HHS Employee Vote

04/08/2010 11:31:00 م

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the six winners of innovation awards in the first cycle of the HHSinnovates program. The program is aimed at supporting a “culture of innovation” in one... More Details

More U.S. Adults Report Being Obese

03/08/2010 01:52:00 م

The number of states with an obesity prevalence of 30 percent or more has tripled in two years to nine states in 2009, according to a CDC Vital Signs report. In 2000, no state had an obesity prevalenc... More Details

Antidepressant use up among those who aren't depressed

07/08/2011 03:37:00 م

Are people taking antidepressants when they don't need the drugs? Are we becoming a nation who needs drugs to wipe away our sorrows?... More Details

Immunization week: a major force for child survival

21/04/2011 05:37:00 م

21 April 2011 -- During immunization week, outreach teams carry out large-scale vaccination campaigns against diseases like diphtheria, hepatitis A and B, measles, pneumococcal disease, polio, rotavir... More Details

SANAC tackles TB

05/05/2011 01:00:00 م

The extent of tuberculosis and HIV co-infection rates in South Africa has firmly placed tuberculosis on the agenda of the South African National AIDS Council. This, after studies have shown that in so... More Details

The state of medical male circumcision

28/06/2011 05:26:00 م

Over 100 000 South African young men were circumcised in the last financial year in the government’s programme to integrate medical male circumcision into the country’s HIV prevention strategy.... More Details

Increasing number of people accessing HIV treatment

04/06/2011 04:50:00 م

03 June 2011 -- The latest HIV treatment figures show a 16-fold increase in the number of people receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) between 2003 and 2010. However, about nine million people that w... More Details

Health news

07/01/2010 08:33:12 م

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