Health
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First ‘Let’s Talk Cancer’ Workshop Hosted
The Papua New Guinea Cancer Foundation (PNGCF) conducted its first full day ‘Let’s Talk Cancer’ Cervical & Breast Cancer workshops.
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Yemen declares state of emergency in Sanaa over cholera
Image: A nurse attends to a boy infected with cholera at a hospital in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah,…
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At least one dead in new Ebola outbreak in Congo
This latest Ebola outbreak is Congo's eighth, the most of any country.
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Infant mortality and malaria soar in Venezuela, according to government data
Hospitals often lack basic equipment like incubators, and pregnant women are struggling to eat well, including taking folic acid, factors…
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Study finds how polluting nanoparticles get into blood and damage hearts
Inhaled nanoparticles like those pumped out in vehicle exhausts can work their way through the lungs and into the bloodstream…
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Japan wrestles over smoking ban as Olympics loom
Tokyo risks being one of the unhealthiest Olympic Games hosts in years, as an anti-smoking law exposes deep rifts over…
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Egyptian woman leaves Indian hospital more than 300 kg lighter
Image: Eman Ahmed, an Egyptian woman who underwent weight loss surgery, is carried on a stretcher as she leaves a…
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Yemen cholera outbreak kills 25 people in a week – WHO
The deaths from the diarrhoeal disease which is carried in food and water tainted by human faeces are among 1,360…
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How drugmakers face global push-back on high prices
China and Japan, the two biggest non-Western markets for pharmaceuticals, are also bearing down on costs, and poorer countries find…
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Egyptian woman leaves Indian hospital more than 300 kg lighter
A series of operations in Mumbai brought her weight down to below 200 kg (440 lb), her doctor, Muffazal Lakdawala,…
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